WARREN — BRITE Energy Innovators has been given $150,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy to help fund the clean energy startup incubator’s effort to bridge the gap between innovation and marketplace. The funding through the department’s Office of Technology Transitions will help the ...

AUSTINTOWN — The Hearn Paper Company’s humble beginnings are traceable back to 1902, when three brothers — F.E., Thomas and Carey Hearn — opened Hearn Bros. & Co. on North Avenue in downtown Youngstown. It was a store for groceries, provisions and notions, or small sewing ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The division for Workforce Education and Innovation at Youngstown State University has been awarded $902,000 from the state to meet the need for more training in industrial maintenance, robotics and electrical technician. Support, like the grant from the Super Regionally ...

REYERS AWARDED: Reyers, a family-owned shoe store at the Eastwood Mall in Niles, has captured another national award. Footwear Insight magazine has named the store among the winners of its 2023 Gold Medal Service Awards. The annual competition seeks to find the “best of the best” shoe ...

WEATHERSFIELD — A Canadian company attempting to develop a complete domestic U.S. supply chain for advanced graphite material plans to invest $435 million to build a graphite anode manufacturing plant in the township to support the electric-vehicle industry. Graphite One (Alaska), a ...

AGENCY WINS AWARDS: Youngstown-based Clever took home seven awards at the 2024 AAF Akron American Advertising Awards, including two of the top awards. Clever received the Judge’s Choice Award for its suicide prevention ad for Alta Care Group and a MOSAIC Addy for the Black History Month ...