Jim Loboy

22 hours ago | wkbn.com | Jim Loboy

BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) – If you need baby items, clothes for kids, toys — anything along those lines — then mark your calendar. The Baby Bargain Boutique is back this Saturday at Boardman Park. It’s been an annual tradition for more than 20 years. More than 100 moms bring gently used items to sell at a fraction of the cost compared to buying them brand new. Organizers say it’s a one-stop shop, rain or shine.

1 day ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV)- Let’s say you visited Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York at the turn of the century…the 19th century to the 20th. Ride the new roller coaster, stroll the boardwalk, and visit the fully working neonatal intensive care unit, complete with incubators filled with sleeping, premature babies….the year, 1900. Inventors around the world saw zoos using incubators and wondered why not keep tiny humans alive this way?

2 days ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV) — Want to boost your spirit from the rainy forecast? Get ready to STOMP, the show is coming to the Valley this week. STOMP, the percussion sensation, returns to Youngstown for one performance only, at Powers Auditorium this Wednesday, May 14, at 7:30 p.m. From its beginnings as a street performance in the UK, STOMP has grown into an international sensation over the past 29 years. Andrew Patrick, a Massachusetts native, has been with the show for over 20 years. He told us what to expect.

2 days ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(AP) — Let’s go back to the 1960s: the Civil Rights Movement, hippies, the Vietnam War, political assassinations, the Beatles, but let’s look at everyday life. 42% of adults were smokers. In 1964, the U.S. Surgeon General warned us that smoking was not good;11 percent of adults in this country smoke today. The average price of a haircut was $2.05. For women, it was $2.16. Today, it’s around $30. At the beginning of the 1960s, marriage was still the way into adulthood.

3 days ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV) – Who invented the contact lens? In 1636, French philosopher René Descartes said, “Let’s place a glass tube filled with liquid in direct contact with the cornea.” It was impractical, and wearers couldn’t blink. In 1887, a German glass-blower, F.E. Muller, produced the first ever eye covering you could see through and actually tolerate for a while. In 1949, we had the first corneal contact lens, and it soon became popular.