Auto workers seek change as layoffs mount at Lordstown plant
In Lordstown Ohio 2800 GM workers face layoffs amid recession and aging workforce The mood shifts from blue collar complaints to mortgages car payments and family duties as automation and boredom influence the union Local 1112 President Marlin Whitey Ford notes the plant's past strikes and ongoing issues with grievance language while workers like James Forsyth describe repetition and fatigue from assembly line work
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Lordstown
Ohio
General Motors
Sam DiPetro
Vegas
Chevrolet
Marlin “Whitey
Ford
United Auto
James W. Forsyth
Fisher
General Assembly
Forsyth
VFW to present flag at Middletown Mall ceremony
The American flag will be flown at the Middletown Mall in a May 2 ceremony at 2 p.m. by Fourth District Auxiliary VFW members as part of Loyalty Day observances in the mall rotunda. Earlene Wilson and Ruth Carter, representing the group, received a loyalty proclamation from City Commission Chairman Dudley Inwood on Tuesday night.
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Middletown Mall
Fourth District Auxilliary Vfw
Earlene Wilson
Sixth Ave
Ruth Carter
Baltimore St
City Commission
Dudley Inwood
Midlletown man bound over to county grand jury in chase
Clayton Cantrell, 26, of Midlletown, linked to a Hamilton to Camden police pursuit, was bound over on two counts of abduction robbery and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle after waiving a preliminary hearing. He was convicted on three traffic offenses and fined $50 with a year in jail.
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Butler County Grand Jury
Clayton Cantrell
Fairmount Ave
Middletown
Hamilton
Cantrell
Valley Drive-in
New Miami
U.S. 127
Camden
Cliff Dye
Sheriff's Department
Franklin Schools Treasurer Kenneth E Bishop Honored
Kenneth E Bishop a 1954 Franklin High School graduate and former clerk treasurer of Franklin schools was celebrated by the Ohio Association of School Business Officials for his year as CASBO president. His term ends June 30. Bishop has served as clerk treasurer of the Washington school system Toledo since 1969.
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Franklin
Kenneth E. Bishop
Franklin High
Franklin Schools
Ohio Association of School Business Officials
OASBO
CASBO
Columbus
Bishop
Washington
Toledo
Wilmington College
Roosevelt
Middletown
Lockland
Henry E. Bishop
Decker Road
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McAlpin
Proctor-Silex
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