YOUNGSTOWN — About a year from now, Barb Ewing hopes to have additive manufacturing companies move into the new Youngstown Innovation Hub for Aerospace & Defense, located downtown in the former Vindicator building. Thursday was the symbolic shovel-turning in front of the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday had governors and electricity companies join a voluntary pledge to shield U.S. consumers from higher utility bills from data centers — a sign of how the artificial intelligence build-out has become a lightning rod of controversy before the midterm elections. The president first announced the pledge with leading AI and tech companies in March, but that initial commitment has done little to comfort voters who are already grappling with affordability issues as they worry about competing for electricity, water and land with tech ...
By RUSS BYNAM The Associated Press Tropical Storm Bertha brought heavy surf and some flooding to southern Louisiana and Texas as it came ashore on the Gulf Coast for a second time Thursday, hours before weakening to a tropical depression. The National Hurricane Center said wind gusts of tropical storm force were still possible along the upper Texas coast Thursday evening, and water levels in the area may remain high from storm surge. Bertha is expected to produce 1 to 3 inches of rainfall, with isolated totals up to 4 inches that could trigger flash flooding in coastal and south ...
NILES — Trumbull County Commissioners said they have secured as many grants and other funding for a $3.4 million sanitary sewer improvement project in the Crain Drive neighborhood in Weathersfield as they could, but residents will still have to pay their share to tap into the system. Commissioners hosted a public hearing Wednesday at Niles McKinley High School where the project, which is set to begin in October, was explained to more than 40 residents. “This project has been planned and worked on for the past five years,” said Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer Gary Newbrough. ...
MODEL CLUB: Mahoning County Model Aircraft Club monthly meeting will be at 6 p.m. July 29 at Shaker Woods Field in Columbiana (enter field at 219 state Route 7). New members welcome. Come at 4 p.m. if you wish to fly. In case of rain, meet at Bellaria Pizza, Market Street, Boardman. Annual Fun Fly is Sept 19 with the public welcome. For more information, RC.chris.shoemaker@gmail.com. CITYWIDE BAPTISM: Youngstown area ministers and churches will host the third annual citywide baptism from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at North Side Pool. People can sign up to be baptized or show up. More than 70 ...
YOUNGSTOWN — A summer camp offered to local children by Easterseals of Northeast Ohio is not only benefiting them but the grandparents, aunts and uncles taking care of them. Called “Kinship Summer Camp,” the program held for seven weeks four days per week in June and July, has children spending four hours at the camp while their caregivers are given time to spend on their own. McDonald resident Jody Klase, CEO of Easterseals, said the children who attend are being raised by an older adult relative who is not a parent, typically a grandparent or other family member. “We want ...
