Meeting on Mon., Mar. 23, the Boardman Township Board of Trustees approved a 2026 operating budget of $25.372 million.
      The budget includes $10.658 million for the police department, $6.280 million for the fire department, $4.405 million for the road department, $629,907 for the office of planning/zoning and $1.345 million for administrative expenses.
      The Boardman Township 2025 operating budget included $4.797 million for the road department, $10.145 million for the police department, $5.760 million for the fire department, $592,924 for planning and zoning and
      The budget also includes expenses of $78,394 for salaries of township trustees and $36,824 for the salary of the fiscal officer.
      The Board of Trustees also approved an expense of $48,866 for the purchase of 15 sets of protective body amour for officer...Read More >>

      The Mahoning County Engineer’s Office will began construction of a roundabout at the intersection of Glenwood Ave. and Wildwood Dr. in March with the removal of 24 trees. The engineer’s office says the trees “need to be removed by Mar. 31 before the endangered Indian bat returns to the area.” Due to the size of several of the oak trees along Wildwood, crews are going to need to close the street, east of Glenwood, during the day while they drop the trees. The $1.4 million project will be going out to bid soon with construction beginning in late May or June and take a year and a half to complete. The project’s proposed “improvements” along Glenwood Ave. will reduce travel lanes to one lane in each direction with dedicated turn lanes as needed, says the engineer’s office.

     Thomas Godward, 73, of 1877 Oles Ave., has made him home there since 1979 and for the last nine years a dilapidated apartment building on his street has been a cause of concern for him.
      Godward appeared at a meeting of Boardman Township Trustees last week wondering if the structure, that has been declared a nuisance, will ever be torn down. He acknowledged the owner of the building has medical issues, however not when the building began to fall into a state of disrepair almost a decade ago.
      “We are aware that she has medical issues, but they were not in play when this on-going saga started. She ignored zoning infractions, the fines and outright refused to make repairs on that building,” Godward said, referring to Dorothea Wydick, of Canfield.
      Godward noted the property has been transferred from Wydick’s name to a firm related to her by th...Read More >>