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Starbucks to shutter 250 stores this week in 2nd wave of closings

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Starbucks plans to close 250 North American stores later this week. It is the second big round of store closures under Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in 2024. Last September, Starbucks closed 627 stores in North America and Europe. In a letter to employees, Starbucks Chief Operating Officer Mike Grams said the locations targeted either aren’t delivering acceptable financial results or can’t provide the kind of experience that Starbucks wants for customers and employees. The company didn’t say Thursday which coffeehouses will close or how many ...

McKinley Birthplace Memorial is site and a subject for author talk

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Bill Clevlen’s latest book was inspired by empty ChapStick tubes and some wires. Clevlen is a former radio host turned travel writer, and his eight books include “100 Things to Do in America Before You Die” and “The Ultimate American Music Bucket List.” His latest is “Presidential Road Trips: 100 Places to Explore and Experience the History of American Presidents,” and he will talk about the book at noon Saturday at one of the locations featured in it —- the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial & Museum in Niles. “Had I known how popular presidential trivia and ...

Residents want an independent assessment of McDonald Steel property

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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 ...

Different contractor named in Boardman theft allegation

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BOARDMAN — The contractor accused of taking money from a Boardman woman without completing the work is not the same man whose name and face have been plastered across local news lately. A report in Thursday’s Vindicator outlines the complaints from an Applewood Acres resident who told ...

Another resident alleges theft by contractor

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BOARDMAN — A local contractor is in hot water for a familiar offense. A Boardman woman told police she paid a contractor $5,000 toward a $20,000 home-improvement project more than a year ago, but the work remains unfinished and the contractor has stopped responding to her. The complaint comes as police in several Mahoning Valley communities are investigating separate allegations involving Boardman contractor John P. Bartos III, who was arrested Friday on four outstanding warrants. Bartos has not been identified as the contractor in Tuesday’s Boardman complaint and the names of ...