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Ultium recharges Lordstown workforce

Staff report After seven months off the job, approximately 850 Ultium Cell union employees will return to work at the General Motors/South Korean-owned battery cell plant in Lordstown. The company made the announcement Thursday. “Ultium Cells has informed employees that it will begin a phased return of temporarily laid-off hourly employees at its Warren facility on July 27,” a company spokeswoman said. “The phased return is expected to be complete by mid August.” During the transition, members of UAW Local 1112 will complete onboarding, safety training, and job-specific ...

North Bloomfield man gets probation for ICE threats

Charles Bronson Ingram, 47, of North Bloomfield was sentenced recently in U.S. District Court in Cleveland to the amount of time he had already served locked up plus three years of probation and restrictions on his computer usage for posting threatening remarks about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and others on YouTube. Ingram pleaded guilty in April to influencing and intimidating a federal official by threat and interstate threatening communications. Judge Charles E. Fleming imposed the standard conditions of supervision, such as Ingram staying in touch with his ...

Hubbard council OKs dam resolution

HUBBARD — Another step has been taken toward removing a dam in the community, partially as a result of a resolution approved by city council. At a council meeting earlier this month, city officials approved authorizing the city’s board of control to advertise for qualifications for design-build services associated with the Valley Mould Dam — suspending the second and third readings and passing it as read. The resolution’s approval comes a month after Mayor Ben Kyle reported the Eastgate Regional Council of Governments had secured all the funding necessary to remove the dam, ...

Youth-led markets set in Warren, Youngstown

INSPIRING MINDS MARKETS: This summer, over 300 students in the Mahoning Valley participated in Inspiring Minds’ six-week summer enrichment program. Both the Warren and Youngstown chapters of Inspiring Minds will culminate their programs with annual youth-led summer markets on July 21 in Warren and July 25 in Youngstown. The markets are set for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at 837 Woodland St. NE, Warren, and noon to 2 p.m. July 25 at 2110 South Ave., Youngstown. The summer markets will highlight what IM students learned about entrepreneurship by showcasing 30+ “businesses” created ...

Trump addresses elections during primetime speech

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump used a primetime address to the nation Thursday to once again raise doubts about the results of past elections, reviving a subject he’s long used to make unproven claims and deny his loss in the 2020 election. Trump’s fixation on his loss to Democrat Joe Biden six years ago and the long-debunked theories he’s circulated about it are things he still brings up regularly when discussing other subjects. But elevating the deeply political and conspiratorial topics to a presidential primetime address underscores the lengths to which Trump has used ...

McDonald residents seek meetings to develop plan for data centers

MCDONALD — Village residents are urging council and the administration to conduct public meetings on how they would prepare for a potential data center proposal, including developing a plan with clear guidelines and restrictions before a data center expresses interest in locating there. Residents said they are particularly concerned if a data center wants to locate at the former McDonald Steel property. Mayor Ray Lewis told more than 15 residents at Wednesday’s meeting that the planning commission has been working on a plan to have guidelines in place for data centers and other ...