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Event highlights progress in Niles

NILES — Community stakeholders gathered at the Eastwood Mall on Thursday evening to celebrate the city’s commercial growth while spotlighting new workforce and financial literacy initiatives aimed at preparing the next generation. Business leaders, educators, elected officials and ...

Seeing Eye: Autumn in the Falls, Music at the Square and more

AUTUMN IN THE FALLS: The Newton Falls Autumn in the Falls will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the village’s downtown. There will be vendors and activities. BLESSED WITH A BAG: Two special ostomy awareness events, presented by Blessed With a Bag, will take place from 4 to 8 p.m. today and Saturday at St. Demetrios Banquet Hall, 3223 Atlantic St., Warren. Today will feature a special meet and greet for ostomates, offering an opportunity for fellowship, encouragement and support. Today’s event will be for uplifting connection and community as ostomates will come together to ...

More than 160,000 pounds of meat bearing false USDA inspection labels recalled

NEW YORK (AP) — More than 83 tons of meat are being recalled across the U.S. because the products were not properly inspected by federal authorities and were shipped out with falsified inspection stickers, the Department of Agriculture said. Star Meat Delivery Inc., based in Lucama, North Carolina, is recalling more than 167,000 pounds of raw pork, beef and goat nationwide. The USDA said that number could grow as it continues its investigation. Food produced without inspection may contain undeclared allergens, harmful bacteria or other contaminants, the agency said Tuesday in ...

Journalists celebrated, inducted

YOUNGSTOWN — Thousands of Youngstown State University students knew her as a kind, passionate and compassionate journalism instructor and adviser, but Tom Martindale remembered her more simply. “The woman I knew, I knew as Mom, and she was the finest person I have ever known,” ...

TCESC Career Navigator program expands

Staff report NILES — Trumbull County’s educational service center is seeing its Workforce Development and Career Pathways Department as a response to a growing interest in districts seeking opportunities for students to explore careers and connect with employers. The Trumbull County Educational Service Center’s governing board approved hiring Steve Beshara as a career navigator at Monday’s meeting, according to a news release. Beshara joins Skyler O’Donnell, providing the department with additional capacity to deliver Career Navigator services to 11 school districts ...

Residents want an independent assessment of McDonald Steel property

McDONALD — While village residents thanked council for placing a one-year moratorium on data centers, they want officials to next prepare a strategic plan and have an independent environmental assessment done on the former U.S. Steel property to determine what business would best be suited there. Oppidan officials last week conducted a presentation at McDonald High School and showed proposed plans of wanting to locate several data centers on the property off Ohio Avenue. Residents are now asking for an environmental assessment to explore the effects that many data centers would ...