Groundbreaking

Groundbreaking

YOUNGSTOWN

V&M Star and Vallourec, its parent company, will break ground at 10 a.m. Monday in a ceremony to officially begin construction of its $650 million expansion project.

The hot-rolling, seamless pipe mill will create 400 construction jobs. The new mill is expected to begin production at the end of next year with full production by the end of 2012.

The plant is being built near V&M’s facility on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Gov. Ted Strickland, local and state politicians, and more than 100 V&M employees will attend the event.

Veterans ceremony

AUSTINTOWN

The Korean War Veterans Association of Mahoning Valley, Chapter 137, will conduct a Laying of the Roses ceremony at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Wickcliffe Circle Korean War Memorial.

The main speaker is Army Lt. Col. James Shurtleff, retired. There also will be comments by state Sen. Joseph Schiavoni of Canfield, D-33rd, state Rep. Ronald Gerberry of Austintown, D-59th, and Mahoning County Commissioner Anthony Traficanti.

A rose will be laid by the Marine Corps Detachment at the foot of the monument in honor of Marine John Kelly, who was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Then, roses will be placed in honor of the other 122 from Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties killed in the Korean War.

John Pariza, commander of Chapter 137, also will announce the dedication of Interstate Route 680 as Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway.

2 sought in robbery

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are looking for two people who robbed two men at gunpoint in the parking lot of the South Side Annex building on Market Street early Friday.

According to reports, two men from Struthers, 20 and 22, parked in the lot of the Mahoning County-owned annex building in the Uptown area at 1:45 a.m.

The two men were planning to go to a bar along Market Street, but two men pulled out handguns and robbed them of $100 and cell phones just as they got out of the car.

BMV closed

STRUTHERS

The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles license center at the Fifth Street Plaza is closing today.

The office is reopening under a new deputy registrar in Poland Township on U.S. Route 224 across from the Dairy Queen.

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