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MAC’s hiring

MAC Trailer is holding a job fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at its Salem manufacturing plant at 1453 Allen Road, in the inspection building, where the pictured banner is set. The plant currently has 332 employees and anyone interested in working for the MAC Trailer should visit ...

Flynn Auto Group ranks first in sales for 11th straight year

For the 11th consecutive year, the Flynn Auto Group, owned by David A. Flynn, ranked first in automotive sales in northeast Ohio, according to the Greater Cleveland Auto Dealers Association, with 7,014 units sold in 2017. The Flynn Auto Group consists of Columbiana Cadillac Buick Chevrolet, Donnell Ford in Boardman, Donnell Ford Lincoln of Salem, The Honda Store in Boardman, Performance Trucks in New Waterford and Power Chevrolet Buick GMC in Calcutta. The Auto Group’s success revolves around Flynn’s motto that “Price Sells Cars and Service Keeps Customers”. 2017 was ...

GM workers to receive share of 2018 profits

Special to the Salem News LORDSTOWN — Autoworkers at the GM Lordstown Plant will each collect up to $11,750 in profit-sharing toward the end of February after the car-making giant released its 2017 earnings report Tuesday. The amount is a slight dip from the maximum $12,000 employees at the plant were eligible for last year, breaking a five-year streak of the payments increasing every year. Employees were eligible to receive up to $11,000 in 2016 and up to $9,000 in 2015. The maximum amount will be paid to employees who worked the maximum amount of hours — 1,850 — in 2017, ...

Cruze sales down again in December

Special to the Salem News The U.S. auto industry’s historic growth streak has ended, but demand for new vehicles — especially SUVs — remains healthy as the new year begins. That means fewer car sales, including the Lordstown-built Chevy Cruze, which saw a 22.6 percent dip in December deliveries to 13,406 this December from 17,324 last December. Overall, U.S. auto sales fell 2 percent to 17.2 million in 2017, according to Autodata Corp. It was their first year-over-year decline since 2009, ending an unprecedented seven-year expansion. General Motors, Toyota and Ford all ...

Essex of Salem I earns deficiency free survey

SALEM—Essex of Salem I Skilled Nursing Facility (an Atrium Living Centers Facility) has been honored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for the hard work and dedication by the facility staff through the annual survey process for calendar year 2017. A deficiency free survey is ...