VIDEO: Inside the Home Savings Clock

Join Paula when she scales the Home Savings and Loan Tower in downtown Youngstown and learns its unique history. PAULA JASPER – Each week, Paula Jasper and viewers discover the region’s sometimes hidden assets during “Explore the Mahoning Valley.” Paula, who also contributes general voice work to “Homeplate,” moved to the Mahoning Valley with her husband, [...]

VIDEO: Little Steel Derby Girls

Join Paula Jasper when she interviews and profiles the Little Steel Derby Girls, an all-women roller-derby team from the Youngstown-Warren area. PAULA JASPER – Each week, Paula Jasper and viewers discover the region’s sometimes hidden assets during “Explore the Mahoning Valley.” Paula, who also contributes general voice work to “Homeplate,” moved to the Mahoning Valley with [...]

VIDEO: Fall Bacchanalia

Join Paula Jasper when she visits a fall Bacchanalia complete with bocce, grape-stomping, and a wine-making competition. PAULA JASPER – Each week, Paula Jasper and viewers discover the region’s sometimes hidden assets during “Explore the Mahoning Valley.” Paula, who also contributes general voice work to “Homeplate,” moved to the Mahoning Valley with her husband, Jack [...]

VIDEO: Inside Lanterman’s Mill

Join Paula on a field trip to Youngstown’s beautiful Mill Creek Park and its treasured Lanterman’s Mill.

Photographer chronicles working artists of the Mahoning Valley

By MARK C. PEYKO | METRO MONTHLY EDITOR Although it started as a feature on Facebook, a project by Youngstown photographer Tony Nicholas is rapidly becoming an important chronicle of the creative culture of the Mahoning Valley. Nicholas, who earned his master’s degree  from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2005, didn’t plan on staying in the [...]

Time reveals a father’s generosity

BY MARK C. PEYKO | METRO MONTHLY EDITOR For two weeks every summer, my family made the journey from northeastern Ohio to the Jersey Shore. Our family vacation was something my brothers and sister anticipated – even expected – each year. My dad managed this annual feat on a teacher’s salary and without complaint or [...]

Life’s Work: Couple finds home for activism in Youngstown

By MARK C. PEYKO | METRO MONTHLY EDITOR Authors Staughton and Alice Lynd will discuss their memoirs at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 6, 2009 as part of the Universal Café’s Arts and Lecture Series. The event occurs at the First Unitarian Church in Youngstown. Attys. Alice and Staughton Lynd recently published “Stepping Stones: Memoir [...]

George ‘Shotgun’ Shuba: ‘a silent, seminal moment in baseball history’

BY CHRISTINE DAVIDSON | METRO MONTHLY STAFF WRITER George “Shotgun” Shuba of Austintown sits at his Royal manual typewriter, watching the chickadees that alight on feeders outside the glass doors to the family room, and reflects on his life. To the right of where he sits hangs an enlarged photograph of a moment in his [...]

Local editorial cartoonists hold mirror to Mahoning Valley, world

By GEORGE NELSON |METRO MONTHLY ASSOCIATE EDITOR For editorial cartoonists like Dan O’Brien and Rick Muccio, working in the Mahoning Valley means rarely having to look hard for source material. “In an area like this, it’s hard not to have a lot of material,” said Muccio, an editorial cartoonist for the Tribune Chronicle since the early [...]