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Truck terminal opens

NORTH LIMA — USF Holland held a ceremony Tuesday to mark the opening of a new $4 million truck terminal on Market Street near the Ohio Turnpike exit. The 65-door terminal will employ 75, including drivers, dock workers and other staff.

USF Holland is a subsidiary of New York-based YRC Worldwide, which used to be known as Yellow Corp. The 77-acre site had been home to a terminal for Roadway Express, which also is a subsidiary of YRC. That terminal closed in January 2006, forcing the relocation or elimination of 76 jobs.

Local’s belated Christmas

WARREN — Retirees from Local 717 of the International Union of Electrical Workers will receive their 2007 Christmas bonuses about March 17. Union officials made the announcement Tuesday after the IUE reached an agreement with General Motors Corp.

Payments will be $700 for each retiree. Surviving spouses who are eligible for payments will receive $455.

The annual payout was held up by continuing contract negotiations between GM and IUE workers in Dayton. The local IUE workers were employed at Packard Electric, which is now part of Delphi Corp. GM is taking over the responsibility for those retirees, however.

Valley jobless rates rise

YOUNGSTOWN — Unemployment rates increased in the Mahoning Valley in December. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported these results Tuesday: Mahoning County, 6.9 percent, up from 6.2 percent in November; Youngstown, 8.2 percent, up from 7.6 percent in November; Trumbull County, 6.6 percent, up from 5.8 percent in November; Columbiana County, 6.6 percent, up from 5.9 percent in November. The statewide jobless rate was 5.8 percent last month, compared with 5.3 percent in November.

From Vindicator staff reports