Youngstown, Mahoning County | featured news

Written from her retirement home in Lake Park, Fla. Aug. 7, 1977

There’s so much to be said for being at the right place at the right time.

When it comes to producing entertainment, Youngstown has never taken a back seat to any city.

While newspapers are traditionally where readers turn for hard news, information, sports and features, one of the more popular pages in the newspaper is what readers affectionately refer to as ‘the funny pages.’

Ads were often as colorful as the news stories

The Vindicator printed its first Rotogravure section in 1926.

A look back at some major news events covered by The Vindicator for a century and a half.

OUR HISTORY Feb. 28, 1850: William F. Maag born to Johannes and Catherine Maag, Ebingen, Germany.

The past two months have been difficult for The Vindicator’s newsroom staff, as reporters and

Mahoning Valley Congressman James A. Traficant Jr. was riding high. His election victories were landslides; most area politicians feared him; his national reputation kept growing because of his profane (rather than profound) one-minute speeches on the floor of the House; and his war with The Vindicator was reaching new heights.