We played seven years in Brampton. We had some momentum. I think we were improving both on and off the ice, team president and GM Cary Kaplan said in an interview. And the global pandemic hit. People think of it for one year but it s really impacted for us three seasons of hockey. It was too much for our team to overcome.
The league suspended play last March due to COVID-19. Fourteen teams subsequently elected to take part in the 2020-2021 season, with 12 including Brampton and the Newfoundland Growlers, the other Canadian club, sitting out.
Kaplan said the decision was eventually made to pull the plug in advance of next season because not surprising(ly) … people were not willing to buy tickets or sponsorship or anything with us now.
AUSTINTOWN Anna Mangan and Phil Fusco are the latest additions to the Austintown Police Department.
“We have two real good candidates here, and I think they’re going to turn out to be good officers for the Austintown Police Department,” police Chief Robert Gavalier said Monday after they were sworn in.
Both Mangan and Fusco said their desire to be an officer stems from when they were younger.
“My sophomore year in high school is when I realized I wanted to be a police officer. My cousin is a police officer, and I did a ride-along with him. I fell in love with it right then and there,” Fusco said.