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REGION

Blue Sky Therapy schedules open house

WARREN — Blue Sky Therapy, a physical therapy center, has scheduled an open house today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at its outpatient facility located at 4329 Mahoning Ave N.W.

Free health screenings, fitness education and raffles will be among the activities.

Harco signs lease for former Delphi plant

MORAINE — Officials in the Dayton suburb of Moraine say another auto parts maker has signed a lease to occupy a former Delphi Corp. plant and locate up to 400 jobs there.

Harco Manufacturing Group will consolidate several of its operations at the 311,000-square-foot plant.

Delphi, a parts supplier seeking to emerge from bankruptcy protection, ended operations at its Moraine compressor plant last fall, resulting in the loss of about 250 jobs.

Delphi announced the sale of its brake hose business to Harco in October. The sale included machinery and equipment as well as intellectual property, customer and supplier agreements.

NATION

Hershey plans to raise prices on its products

HERSHEY, Pa. — Hershey Co. said Friday it plans to raises prices on its products by an average of 11 percent as it tries to stem the impact of soaring commodities costs, and trimmed its projections for 2008 and 2009.

The candy company known for its chocolate bars bite-sized Kisses said the immediate increase was necessary to offset “significant increases” in the cost of raw materials such as sugar, cocoa and peanuts.

Vindicator staff and wire reports