Storm Cleanup Grants Available

A $15 mil­lion grant from the fed­eral gov­ern­ment will help Ohio cre­ate more than 1,000 tem­po­rary jobs for efforts to clean up and recover from severe storms that bat­tered the state last sum­mer in late June and early July.

The U.S. Depart­ment of Labor ini­tially announced a grant for up to $21 mil­lion last fall but released only $6 mil­lion of that for hun­dreds of tem­po­rary jobs. The depart­ment said Tues­day the $15.4 mil­lion newly announced for the Ohio Depart­ment of Job and Fam­ily Ser­vices rep­re­sents the rest of the award.