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Seeing Eye: Apple Cider Festival starts today

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APPLE CIDER FESTIVAL: The Lordstown Apple Cider Festival will take place today through Sunday on the grounds of Lordstown schools, state Route 45 and Salt Springs Road. The event will include the Lordstown Lions Club demonstrating how to make fresh apple cider. The festival will include a parade, fireworks, craft show, amusement rides, live music, children’s zone area, car show, and fireworks. There will be a parade at 3 p.m. Sunday along Salt Springs Road. The festival will be from 5 p.m. to midnight today, 10 a.m. to midnight Saturday and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, FOOD TRUCK ...

Insight reaches $5.1M deal with workers

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Insight Health System has agreed to pay $5.1 million to resolve a federal lawsuit involving approximately 800 union workers released as part of Insight’s mass layoffs in March 2025. The Michigan-based healthcare provider’s initial payment of $1.5 million into a settlement fund will be made Dec. 31. Twelve payments of $300,000 each will occur through Dec. 31, 2029. Details of the preliminary settlement were released Monday. The sides originally reached the agreement following an 8 ½-hour mediation conference April 28. If approved, plaintiffs’ legal fees will account for ...

Girard to hear about possible mountain bike trail

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GIRARD — With the possibility the city may get a mountain bike trail on the Girard Lakes property, a resident is advising officials to attend a program about them. Resident Tonya Carpenter told city officials this week that she has spoken to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ Division of State Parks and Watercraft about trail building, and they said a representative can do a presentation at West Branch State Park. Girard officials would be invited to attend. Carpenter said the presentation would be two days and show what is involved for constructing and marking a bike ...

Man faces charge after dog attack

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WARREN — A city man is facing a misdemeanor vicious-dog charge after the dog allegedly ran through a screen door Tuesday evening and attacked a girl, biting her in the hip and leg. William A. Naylor, 41, of McMyler Street was arraigned Wednesday in Warren Municipal Court on first-degree misdemeanor “dangerous and vicious dogs.” He pleaded not guilty and will return for another hearing Sept. 23. A police report states that officers were called to the 2200 block of McMyler Street at 5 p.m. Tuesday for a dog bite. Before officers arrived, they were advised that the dog’s owner ...

10 county departments get budget increases

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WARREN — Trumbull County commissioners passed a resolution Wednesday providing additional money to 10 county departments in an effort to bolster their budgets in hopes of enabling them to finish the year. The county is providing a total of $1,204,150. Those offices receiving the funds include treasurer, $125,000; sheriff, $100,000; recorder, $75,000; coroner, $78,000; domestic court, $200,000; probate court, $150,000; clerk of courts, $79,150; common pleas courts, $144,500; board of elections, $200,000; and planning commission, $52,500. Several of the offices are receiving the ...

Unemployment claims statewide nudge downward

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Staff report COLUMBUS — Ohioans filed 4,019 initial unemployment claims Sept. 6-12, which was 295 fewer than the previous week, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported Thursday. Ohioans also filed 33,984 continued unemployment claims last week, 1,207 fewer than the previous week. The total number of claims filed for the period was 38,003. Ohio’s unemployment rate in July was 3.4%. The national unemployment rate in July was 4.1%. Ohio’s labor force participation rate in July was 61.4%. The national labor force participation rate in July was 61.4%. ODJFS ...