Lordstown News

The Chevrolet Cruze won't start rolling off the assembly line at GM's Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant and into U.S. showrooms until next spring.

A proposed $6 million Animal Welfare Care & Education Center next to the Trumbull Career and Technical Center not only would be a boon to stray animals, it also would encourage training programs to attract new veterinarians to the area.

Arthur S. Filomena, age 87, passed away at Hospice House in Wausau, Wis., on Wednesday, June 24, 2009.

Slam, dunk at General Motors Corp.'s Mansfield/Ontario Metal Center. The closure of the local stamping plant will leave Mansfield and surrounding areas in shambles.

LORDSTOWN: Michele Lambert knows firsthand how new cars are put together. And that's coming in mighty handy to a particularly economically vulnerable part of Northeast Ohio and to beleaguered General Motors.

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Bob Richter loads front wheelhouse components for the Chevrolet Cruze at the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio.

LORDSTOWN, Ohio - As General Motors Corp. undergoes its transformation from big and slow to lean and fast in a New York bankruptcy court, a similar metamorphosis is under way inside a mammoth eastern Ohio factory that will make what arguably is GM's most important vehicle.

Bari Lambert has one of the loneliest jobs on the 241-mile Ohio Turnpike . It gives her plenty of time to enjoy the scenery from her toll booth.

General Motors' Chief Executive Officer says he has high hopes for the next car planned for production in Lordstown.

By JAMES RIPPY rippyj@charter.net June 1, 2009, was a day of sadness for me personally.

Kandi Byrd always has been an active woman. She works out with aerobic exercises.

Ila Joy Bailey, 83, formerly of Howland and Lordstown, died at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 9, 2009, at Hospice of the Valley's Hospice House of Poland.

A prominent financial magazine is listing the Mahoning Valley among the nation's 10 areas least poised to climb out of the recession, but local economic development officials would love to prove it wrong.

Part of the price General Motors and its workers will pay to emerge from bankruptcy as a new, lean and viable corporation is more cuts - more dealers will be dropped than announced just last month and 14 more plants will close.

It was the worst May ever for sales of the Chevrolet Cobalt. General Motors said today that it sold 12,764 Cobalts in the U.S. last month.

U.S. Rep. Timothy J. Ryan in calling General Motor's bankruptcy filing ''devastating'' and ''monumental'' said there is a bright spot among the darkness: assurances from the automaker's top executives that Lordstown is key in turning around the auto giant.

Valley Congressman Tim Ryan says despite the devastating impact Monday's bankruptcy filing will have on many communities around the country, he sees a potential silver-lining for the Mahoning Valley.

Workers at thirteen other GM facilities aren't as lucky as Lordstown. GM's stamping plant in Ontario, Ohio will close next year affecting more than 1,200 workers.

Coinciding with Monday's bankruptcy filing, GM executives are following through with plans announced earlier this year to shutdown more than a dozen plants around the country as the automaker tries to tighten its belt.

Reading Working last night, I was struck by this passage from the UAW local boss in Lordstown, Ohio, which is timely today even though it was said back in 1972.