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Special prices offered

LISBON

Adult Day Services, which celebrated its opening with a ribbon-cutting and open house Wednesday, is offering special pricing to those who sign up for the program by the end of February.

Located at 100 Vista Drive, Adult Day Services offers activities, socialization and dining to seniors who would benefit from social interaction or need supervision and assistance.

The service is supervised by a nurse, who provides routine wellness checks for participants.

More information is available by calling 330-424-5852.

PennDOT: Shell aims to relocate highway for plant

PITTSBURGH

The state Department of Transportation says Shell Chemical LP wants to relocate a state highway as part of its proposed plans to build a multibillion-dollar petrochemical plant on the site of a former zinc plant in western Pennsylvania.

PennDOT spokesman Dan Cessna says Shell would pay for the changes, which include moving a section of Route 18 in Beaver County about 950 feet farther from the Ohio River, and upgrading an interchange with Interstate 376. Route 18 would be widened to six lanes to accommodate truck traffic during the plant’s construction, then changed back to four lanes afterward.

Shell has not formally committed to building the plant, but has extended an option on the Potter Township site and begun demolition there.

Dr Pepper to test 60 calories a pop

NEW YORK

Americans are cutting back on both regular soda and diet soda. So Dr Pepper is testing something in between, with natural sweeteners.

Dr Pepper Snapple Group said Wednesday that it plans to test versions of its Dr Pepper, 7Up and Canada Dry sodas this year that have about 60 calories a can with only naturally derived sweeteners. That’s fewer than half the 150 calories in a can of regular Dr Pepper, but more than the 0 calories in the diet version.

The sodas would be sweetened with sugar and stevia, rather than the artificial sweeteners used in traditional diet sodas or the high-fructose corn syrup used in most regular soda.

Shakeup hits 3,000 Verizon workers

SAN FRANCISCO

About 3,000 Verizon Wireless workers will have to transfer to different offices or find new jobs.

The changes announced Wednesday are part of a reorganization affecting Verizon offices in California, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland and Georgia.

Verizon says it is closing customer-service centers in some of those states and changing the types of jobs in other states.

Vindicator staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Aqua America, .61, 24.16 —.04

Avalon Holdings,5.41—.10

Clear Channel, .61 21.42 .01

Cortland Bancorp, 10.55—.35

Farmers Nat., .127.03 .00

First Energy, 2.20, 31.09—.23

FirstMerit Corp., .64,20.19 —.23

First Niles Financial, .32,6.20.00

FNB Corp., .48,11.99.07

General Motors,35.48.23

General Electric, .76,25.39—.04

Huntington Bank, .20, 9.12—.01

JP Morgan Chase, 1.52,57.56.13

Key Corp, .22,12.91.10

LaFarge, 18.45 .30

Macy’s, 1.00, 52.80—.77

Parker Hannifin, 1.80, 117.07.56

PNC, 1.76,80.95—.05

RTI Intl. Metals,30.82.04

Simon Prop. Grp.,4.60,157.73—.22

Stoneridge 9.92 .25

Talmer Bank, .00.00

United Community Fin. 3.41—.02

Selected prices at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Provided by Stifel. Not to be construed as an offer or recommendation to buy or sell any security.