Ribbon-cutting set for new studio

Ribbon-cutting set for new studio

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber will have a celebratory ribbon cutting at 11 a.m. today at Cinemanix Productions’ new studio in downtown Youngstown.

Cinemanix Productions is an award-winning production company with Ohio and North Carolina studios. Their Youngstown studio will be at 20 Federal Place, Suite 720, on West Federal Street.

Cinemanix is a full-service media and film production company with expertise acquired over 15 years of working on national commercials, television series and films. Clients include ESPN, NASCAR, HBO, Google and Pizza Hut.

Locally, Cinemanix has worked with Home Savings and Loan, MSA Safety and Culinary Arts Restaurant. For information on Cinemanix, visit cinemanix.com.

Speedy Furniture ceremony today

BOARDMAN

The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber will have a celebratory ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. today for Speedy Furniture located at 451 Boardman-Canfield Road.

Poland residents August and Elaine D’Onofrio opened the latest location in the Speedy Furniture franchise July 23. Speedy Furniture offers quality furniture at affordable prices along with independent delivery service. The Boardman store is the 14th location for the Butler, Pa.-based chain.

The store is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday.

12 permits issued for horizontal wells

COLUMBUS

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources issued 12 horizontal well drilling permits for the week of Aug. 16 through Aug. 22.

No permits were issued in the Mahoning Valley, but three were issued in Noble County; four were issued in Belmont County; four were issued in Harrison County; and one in Jefferson County.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued no permits in either Mercer or Lawrence counties.

Ariz. severs ties with company

NEW YORK

PHOENIX

Arizona is severing ties with a private prison operator over what the state says was a string of security and training lapses that led to violent riots in July.

Gov. Doug Ducey announced the action against Management and Training Corp. on Wednesday after the state released a scathing report about numerous issues at the prison. Ducey says what happened at the prison was “frightening, disturbing and completely unacceptable.”

The unrest began July 1 in a minimum-security unit when private corrections officers tried to stop an inmate-on-inmate assault. A full-blown riot broke out the next day in another unit.

The riot left some housing units so badly damaged that more than 1,100 prisoners had to be moved to other facilities. Nine corrections officers suffered minor injuries.

Staff/wire reports