BY JOHN A. DARNELL JR.
      associate editor
      Former Boardman High School boys bowling coach, Kevin Randolph, 70, of 336 Stadium Dr., will have to register as a sex offender every six months for the next 25 years after he entered guilty pleas to charges of felonious assault and sexual battery last week in a Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas.
      Randolph was secretly indicted by the Mahoning County Grand Jury on Feb. 13, 2025 according to documents filed with the Mahoning County Clerk of Courts.
      The four-count indictment included a felony-2 felonious assault/sexual motivation specification, strangulation, a felony-3; as well as two counts of endangering children.
      According to the indictment, on or about Aug. 1, 2019 through June 26, 2024 Randolph caused serious harm [to a teen...Read More >>

     Southern Blvd. in Boardman is citing a critical operational crisis that has forced the organization to immediately suspend animal control services in Mahoning County.
      For years, Animal Charity has provided these services without financial compensation. However, rising veterinary, staffing, housing, and operational costs have made it impossible to continue absorbing those expenses while maintaining care for the animals currently in the shelter.
      Between January 1 and June 1 alone, Animal Charity took in 254 animals through Animal Control-related cases at a cost exceeding $156,000, all funded through donations, grants and fundraising efforts.
      The decision to halt services impacts a wide range of situations including owner hospitalization, owner death, red-tagged evictions, seniors entering assisted living facilities, search warrants, hoarding inte...Read More >>

     As many Boardman High School students celebrated the end of the school year last week, one student’s school year ended much earlier — and not by his choosing.
      Levi Kulikowski, a seventh grader at Glenwood Junior High School, last attended classes on April 1. Since then, he has been receiving instruction at home in between treatments and hospital stays at Akron Children’s Hospital and Cleveland’s Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital.
      Levi was diagnosed in December, 2025 with B-cell lymphoblastic leukemia with Philadelphia-like chromosomes. His illness first appeared when his mother thought he had the flu, along with some pain in his arm. After a visit to Akron Children’s Hospital in Boardman and blood tests, doctors discovered that Levi had an enlarged spleen. Even more concerning, his hemoglobin level had dropped to 5.4, well below the normal range of 11 to 14.
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