Tag: alliance

Meijer program to boost Alliance Community Pantry

Alliance Community Pantry will benefit from a partnership with the Carnation City’s new Meijer store that will provide much-needed relief to local families facing food insecurity. The pantry will receive monetary donations courtesy of Meijer’s customer-driven hunger relief program called Simply Give. The Alliance Meijer store opens at 6 a.m. Tuesday. The program encourages customers to […]

United Launch Alliance to build new ship for rocket transport

May 9—United Launch Alliance has entered into agreements for the construction of a ship that will transport rockets from Decatur to launch sites at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana, and Bristol Harbor Group Inc. in Bristol, Rhode Island, will design, oversee […]

Is the unstoppable Marcos-Duterte alliance headed for divorce?

With his signature bombast, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told a crowd of cheering supporters in January that his successor was a drug addict. The man who replaced him, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, shot back, saying the former leader must have hurled the insult in an opioid-fuelled haze. That was the strongest sign yet of […]

Alliance City Council OK’s garbage rate hike, algae study

ALLIANCE ‒ City residents will pay more for trash service beginning in July. City Council on Monday night approved a rate hike of between 4.6% and 5.2%, depending on service level, that will run July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025. The city’s contract with Kimble Recycling & Disposal Services will be entering its final […]

Nato chief chides alliance countries for not being quicker to help Ukraine

Nato countries have not delivered what they promised to Ukraine in time, the alliance’s chief said Monday, allowing Russia to press its battlefield advantage while Kyiv’s depleted forces wait for Western military supplies to arrive. Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that “serious delays in support have meant serious consequences on the battlefield” for Ukraine. “Nato […]

Alliance man wins U.S. military police honor

Members of the 200th Military Police Command were named winners of the 2024 Best Squad Competition at Fort Knox, Kentucky. From left, the winners were Pfc. Nethanial Schwab, Spc. Andrew Ocilka, Spc. Aaron Court, Sgt. Russell McCune and Staff Sgt. Nicholas Jarman. Court is an Ohio man raised in Alliance. An Ohio man raised in […]

Canton Repository Kid of Character: Jeremiah Lightner, Alliance

NAME – Jeremiah Lightner SCHOOL – Alliance Middle School RESIDENCE – Alliance AGE – 12 PARENTS – Tonya Manion, William Manion SIBLINGS – 12 SCHOOL ACTIVITIES – Soccer and wrestling NOMINATION – “We are very happy to have Jeremiah as an Aviator as he has been a wonderful contributor to the culture at Alliance Middle School […]

Trump and Johnson build alliance on the falsehood of the stolen election

House Speaker Mike Johnson will stand Friday with Donald Trump at an appearance that will amplify the former president’s most damaging falsehood: that America’s democratic elections are catastrophically tainted by fraud. The country’s most powerful elected Republican, who is seeking to save his job under threat from Trump-aligned members of his own party in Congress, […]