The Youngstown Lifeguard Academy teaches teens from the city how to swim and then trains them to be lifeguards, keeping the city's last remaining public swimming pool staffed and safe. When Kevin ...

Emma Cronin, 15, of Smithtown, wants to be an ocean lifeguard at Robert Moses State Park’s beaches one day. Cronin’s older sister is 19 and a lifeguard at Robert Moses. "I started [training to be a ...

This article was originally published on July 16, 2025. When Kevin Tarpley was a young lifeguard in the ‘70s, the city of Youngstown had almost a dozen public swimming pools. “You had a pool on every ...