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1 day ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
HUBBARD, Ohio – When James Chaney coached youth sports teams as his children grew up, he did what so many coaches do – paid out of pocket and traveled miles with the team to find places to practice. “All of our coaches did that because we just didn’t have the resources in this community to accommodate,” Chaney said. But with resourcefulness and a lot of community support, Chaney and others managed to find and create the needed space – The Roosevelt Student Wellness Center.
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3 days ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
UNITY TOWNSHIP, Ohio – Life is abloom at Sutherin Greenhouse, north of East Palestine. Owners Don and Dianna Elzer have 13 greenhouses on the 5-acre property and are prepared for the season as warmer weather brings gardeners out of hibernation. “From a business standpoint, if you don’t make money the last two weeks of May, enough to carry you through the rest of the year, you’re not going to make it,” Don Elzer said.
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5 days ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center and the TIAA Institute surveys adults annually to measure financial literacy. Despite increased attention and focus on the need for additional financial literacy, the results of the 28-question survey show knowledge isn’t increasing.
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1 week ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
WARREN, Ohio – The parking lots and facilities at Insight Health System’s two Trumbull County hospitals remain empty nearly 20 days after the last employees were told to vacate the hospitals. Trumbull County commissioners are still hopeful that a resolution will be found. “We’ve been working with the governor. We’ve been working with our senator, with our state representatives,” Commissioner Rick Hernandez said after a commissioners meeting Wednesday.
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1 week ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – With a larger patient volume, Mercy Health – St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital opened an area with 17 additional beds in an intermediate care unit last week. There was a need for expansion at St. Elizabeth even before the closure of Insight Medical Center and Hospital Trumbull in Warren and Insight Rehabilitation Hospital Hillside in Howland, said Kathy Harley, St. Elizabeth president.
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1 week ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. held a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday for three new duplexes on Glenwood Avenue. The duplexes will be built at 3013, 3021 and 3031 Glenwood, with two recently completed duplexes between them. Besides being high efficiency, the duplexes will be all electric, supplemented by solar panels on the roof of the carports that are projected to provide 104% of the electricity needed to power the houses.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – When her daughter was diagnosed on the autism spectrum, Stacie Bacorn did not know where to turn. “We were handed a half sheet of paper and that was it,” says Bacorn, now the executive director of the Autism Society of the Mahoning Valley, Boardman, Ohio. “There was no road map. There were no resources.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
SALEM, Ohio – The Columbiana County city is on the rise, as evidenced by Site Selection magazine’s Governor’s Cup rankings. On the list of top 100 micropolitans, Salem climbed from 84th in 2023 to 12th in 2024. And there’s an explanation for the jump. “It’s the public sector, the private sector coming together, working together, looking for solutions and attacking … problems,” said Lydia Mihalik, director of the Ohio Department of Development.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
Editor’s note: This is a developing story that will be updated. WARREN, Ohio – Mayor Doug Franklin is calling on state and federal officials to intervene in the closure of two Trumbull County hospitals, which left residents with fewer health care options and employees without pay and benefits.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – When Jeremiah Robinson was 5 years old, he and his 3-year-old sister lost their mother to sickle cell anemia. Raised by his grandparents, Robinson found a second home and additional mentors through the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Robinson is representing the Boys & Girls Clubs of Youngstown in Columbus on Thursday as a finalist for the organization’s Youth of the Year award in Ohio. Robinson will give a speech in Columbus, which is part of the selection process.
