Mobile Market hits the streets of Youngstown

By Elizabeth Coss The Mahoning Valley Mobile Market travels across Mahoning County to provide healthy foods to the community — including Youngstown State University’s. The market is a 28-foot-long grocery store on wheels, spearheaded by the Alliance for Congregational Transformation Influencing Our Neighborhoods. Jeffery Stanford, lead organizer for ACTION, said the Mobile Market was created …

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Valley Partners Prepares to Launch New Grant Program

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, Ohio – A new program being launched by Valley Partners will provide $10,000 grants to qualifying new small businesses to pay for accounting and legal assistance. Valley Partners has set aside $300,000 per year for the next two years to fund the program, Teresa Miller, executive director, said.  The $600,000 will come out …

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Ticket Stubs: Waterfire sails into finale

“Come Sail Away With Us” is the theme for Saturday’s Waterfire Sharon, the final one of 2023 in downtown Sharon, Pa. The food court and artists market starts at 2 p.m. The children area opens at 3 p.m. and will feature demonstrations by the Sharon School District’s Tiger Tech Robotics Team and a Touch a Truck …

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