Dana Curcio has joined the Rubber & Plastics News editorial staff as a copy editor, and Bethany Jones as a summer intern.
Curcio will edit copy, design and lay out pages, and help maintain the publication's Web sites. She last worked at Record Publishing Co., where she was editor of the ``Bedford Times-Register'' and ``Maple Heights Press,'' based in Bedford, Ohio. She originally is from Stow, Ohio.
She is a graduate of Kent State University with a bachelor's degree in English.
Jones is working as a reporter and copy editor during her internship with RPN and Tire Business. A native of Warren, Ohio, she will graduate from KSU in August with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a minor in criminal justice.