Flights extended

Flights extended

PITTSBURGH

Delta Airlines will continue offering nonstop flights between Pittsburgh International Airport and Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport in France.

The current PIT-CDG service is daily through the end of August.

The Allegheny County Airport Authority on Thursday announced the extension, in which Delta will continue operating four days a week until Oct. 28, at which point it will reduce service on many of its transatlantic flights for the winter. The Pittsburgh-Paris service will restart March 24, 2012, with flights four days per week.

Farmers’ market

SHARON, PA.

The Downtown Sharon Farmers’ Market announced it will sell fresh, home-grown produce and potted plants every Wednesday and Saturday from 7 a.m. to noon through the end of October at Sharon City Centre.

New vendors are welcome. For more information, call Ed Farkas at 724-981-0688.

Businesses make millions by moving

COLUMBUS

Relocations that netted small- and medium-size businesses at least $39 million in property-tax breaks to move around within the Cleveland and Cincinnati regions largely sent jobs from areas of poverty into more-affluent communities, according to a study released Thursday.

In the report, the Washington-based Good Jobs First nonprofit research center reviewed business relocations from 1995 to 2010 in the multicounty regions, finding data on 164 moves that involved an estimated 14,500 workers.

Report authors say the findings show that state officials should consider regional tax-revenue sharing and encourage regional economic-development cooperation to prevent “poaching” of companies between nearby communities. Such moves often transfer job opportunities from cities and areas with high minority populations to less-diverse areas and often to sites inaccessible by public transportation, they say.

Staff/wire reports