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Building a plan for a better Belmont continues

LIBERTY — There are about three more months before planning officials have to deliver a finalized plan to revitalize a frequently used corridor connecting Mahoning and Trumbull counties — and on Monday, residents received an update. Officials heard from Katie Philips, an MS Consultants ...

Seeking ‘Letters to Home’

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, as part of America 250-Ohio has created the "Letters to Home Trail" near the Mohican Memorial Shrine, which honors nearly 20,000 Ohioans who died in conflicts from World War II to today. The trail will feature a series of interpretive signs sharing the actual words written home to families of Ohio service members during times of conflict. Project organizers are particularly seeking to ensure strong representation from the Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, Afghanistan War and Iraq War, and are reaching out to veterans and their ...

Trump reinstates blockade of Strait of Hormuz

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and will charge ships for safe passage, after another heavy exchange of fire threatened negotiations aimed at ending the war. President Donald Trump said on social media Monday that Iranian ships will no longer be able to travel through the strait and America would charge a 20% toll on eligible cargo, as the conflict with Iran has intensified after peace talks failed to deliver meaningful progress. “We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is ...

Brantley Gilbert returns to Covelli Centre

Brantley Gilbert will bring his Real American tour to the Covelli Centre on Oct. 15. Gilbert is touring in support of his eighth studio album, “Sins of the Father,” which will be released July 24. It was co-produced with Brock Berryhill, who’s worked with acts ranging from Twenty One Pilots to Kane Brown, and the lead single is “Good Damn.” Since 2005, he’s had five songs top Billboard’s Country and / or Country Airplay charts (“Country Must Be Country Wide,” “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do,” “Bottoms Up,” “One Hell of an Amen” and “What Happens in a ...

Warren veteran experienced the horrors of Vietnam

WARREN — Ronald Franklin calls his year in Vietnam “an experience of a lifetime” that took him to places of beauty and unimaginable darkness. Today, Franklin still has the photo album from that time, which is filled with images from Black Virgin Mountain, helicopters, base camp and ...