Warren plans to tear down old St Joe s hospital building next year wfmj.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wfmj.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Warren Councilman Larry Larson, D-1st Ward, stands outside the former St. Joseph Riverside Hospital site on Tod Avenue NW on Thursday. The city is expecting a $2.5 million grant for asbestos abatement at the abandoned hospital, which will make it possible for it to be torn down, officials announced at an earlier news conference at city hall.
WARREN It’s been three decades coming, but Warren Mayor Doug Franklin says a northwest neighborhood blighted with the dangerous, decrepit “eyesore” of the former St. Joseph Riverside Hospital may see relief soon.
Franklin said he is confident a $2.5 million grant application for asbestos abatement at the hospital will be awarded next month. Franklin and several city officials and council members gathered Thursday afternoon on the steps of Warren City Hall, where council members signed a request-for-legislation document expected to be voted on Wednesday, authorizing the administration
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Lori Yedlicka, director of administrative services at Trumbull County Children Services, bends over to straighten a pinwheel in the front yard of Warren City Hall during the Pinwheels for Prevention kickoff to mark Child Abuse Prevention Month.
WARREN Trumbull County officials investigated 1,291 referrals of child maltreatment in 2020, and each was represented with a pinwheel planted in the yard in front of Warren City Hall to increase awareness.
Anytime someone witnesses child abuse or neglect, he or she should report it to the agency, Tim Schaffner, executive director of Trumbull County Children Services, stressed during Wednesday’s kickoff of the annual Pinwheels for Prevention event.
Apr 8, 2021
WARREN Mayor Doug Franklin said he is confident that an application for $2.5 million to abate the asbestos in the former St. Joseph Riverside Hospital on Tod Avenue will be granted by the Ohio Development Services Agency.
Franklin said the city expects to hear in May if the money will be granted.
If it is, it will put the city on track for the demolition of the “eyesore,” Franklin said. The city will have to secure another $2.5 million or so to pay for the demolition, and several options are being considered as funding sources, though none have been secured, Franklin said.