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Austintown, Ohio Patch AM: a 3 min readGreetings Austintown! Your go-to source for what's happening in town is here. Stay in the loop and read on. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How Austintown Fitch students turned class time into a new playground feature
- See which Austintown program just earned countywide mental health honors
- How Austintown Fitch helped kick off this year’s Special Olympics Invitational
Today's riddle: What's black, white, and blue? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Tuesday: Clouding up, with a high of 65 and low of 53 degrees.
- Wednesday: Breezy with showers around, temps: high: 61, low: 44.
- Thursday: Breezy; an a.m. shower or two, with a high of 54 and low of 40 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Fitch students build sheds for playground (wkbn.com) — Austintown Fitch High School skilled trades students are building custom sheds for the Walnut Grove playground, turning classroom lessons into a real community upgrade. The project gives teens hands-on construction experience, emphasizes teamwork, and creates new storage and play space that local kids will soon be able to enjoy near the playground area. 
• 2026 Mental Health and Recovery Award Honorees Recognized (businessjournaldaily.com) — Austintown residents are being recognized this year for their role in strengthening Mahoning County’s mental health and recovery network, including the Safe Haven Baby Box in Austintown Township being named Program of the Year and an Austintown police reserve officer honored as CIT Officer of the Year. The county board’s annual luncheon in Youngstown highlighted how local staff and advocates are improving access to care across the region.
• Special Olympics Invitational fosters athletes, friendships (vindy.com) — Austintown residents may be proud to see the Austintown Fitch color guard helping lead more than 160 Special Olympics athletes at Girard’s Arrowhead Stadium. The long-running invitational drew teams from several counties for track and field events, with coaches emphasizing confidence, camaraderie, and family-like support as athletes reconnected with friends and celebrated their achievements together.
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PAST TIMES ARCADE FIELD TRIP (5th grade)
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PAST TIMES ARCADE FIELD TRIP (4th grade)
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Austintown Intermediate Youngstown, OH 44515
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Grade 4 & 5 After School
McDonald Local Roosevelt Cafeteria / Gym
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Crochet Club
McDonald Local Music Room
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HS Track & Field MVAC Championship @ Springfield
Springfield High School, 1880 Canton Rd, Akron
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Board of Education Meeting
Youngstown City School District Choffin Career & Technical Center, 200 E Wood St, Youngstown, O
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Baseball Mineral Ridge
Woodland Park, 600 Ohio Ave, McDonald
5:00 pm
Tuesday May 12
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🗞 Nearby News
Canfield
- Canfield man indicted on felonious assault (vindy.com)
- Take a look at tournament drawings for high school baseball teams (mahoningmatters.com)
- Charlie Brown Competition – From Seeds to Scales: Local 'Giant Pumpkin' Competitions Kick Off This Weekend Circleville Pumpkin Show (sciotopost.com)
Youngstown
- Youngstown-Warren region reports increases in jobs, population (mahoningmatters.com)
- Youngstown amp announces Niko Moon date (tribtoday.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A sad zebra (Thank you Mary K. for sending it in!)
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