Lit Youngstown’s sixth annual Fall Literary Festival kicked off Thursday with a reception at Concept Studio in Youngstown and will conclude Saturday with the screening of the documentary “The Place That Makes Us” at 7 p.m. at The Youngstown Playhouse, 600 Playhouse Lane.
The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation (YNDC) started in 2009 and has since grown to become the go-to organization for revitalizing the city.
At Wednesday's Youngstown City Council meeting, close to $400k in American Rescue Plan funds were approved to go to a variety of improvement projects for different wards in the city.
City council plans Wednesday to approve $344,120 in American Rescue Plan-funded projects recommended by its members, but administration officials said the vagueness of some of the requests could lead to them to go nowhere.