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Girard enacts one-year ban on data centers

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GIRARD — The city is the latest community to place a moratorium on issuing permits for data centers to allow for more time for researching and reviewing them. After discussion and three readings, city council on Monday gave final reading to putting a 12-month moratorium in place. Councilwoman Lily Martuccio, D-at Large, said the moratorium will allow for council and the administration to have more time to study the impact data centers will have on the community. Martuccio said once the moratorium is in place, it will allow officials to develop zoning guidelines to ensure public ...

Quaker Steak & Lube cuts Boardman location

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Quaker Steak & Lube’s Boardman location has closed to become the second franchised restaurant under the JDK Management Co. umbrella to end operations this month. The business announced the move Monday morning on social media. “After three decades of service in Boardman, including the last 15 years in our current location, we have made the very difficult decision to permanently close the Boardman, Ohio Quaker Steak & Lube location, effective immediately,” the post said. “We want to extend a heartfelt ‘ThanQ’ to our guests, team members & community for your loyalty, support ...

Butler carries on tradition of championing American art

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YOUNGSTOWN — For 89 years, the National Midyear Exhibition at the Butler Institute of American Art has provided artists from across the country with an opportunity to place their work before one of the nation’s most respected juried exhibitions. This year’s exhibition, which opened Sunday and continues through Aug. 30, carries that tradition forward with 84 works by 79 artists from 15 states selected from a field of 829 entries submitted by 320 artists from 28 states. The exhibition remains one of the country’s longest-running juried shows dedicated to contemporary American ...

Brantley Gilbert returns to Covelli Centre

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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 ...

Trump reinstates blockade of Strait of Hormuz

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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 ...

Millennial’s ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ is letter perfect

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YOUNGSTOWN — Considering how emotionally draining it is as an audience member, it’s hard to imagine how difficult it must be for the cast of Millennial Theatre Company’s “Dear Evan Hansen” to do six performances. The Benj Pasek/Justin Paul/Steven Levenson musical won six Tony Awards, including best musical, in 2017, and it’s easily the best and the most serious of the teen-centric, social-media-focused musicals in recent years, and the talented cast assembled by director Joe Asente is more than capable of handling its challenges. MTC built a reputation locally for polished, ...