Gas prices decline

Gas prices decline

YOUNGSTOWN

Gas prices in the Youngstown-Warren area were listed at $3.364 Tuesday compared with $3.486 last year and $3.418 last week, according to AAA.

Northeast Ohio gas prices fell about 11 cents per gallon this week to $3.384. The national average was listed at $3.515 Tuesday.

The national average price for unleaded gasoline has dropped every day in July and has fallen on 32 consecutive days, which is just short of the multiyear record of 36-straight daily declines registered last fall.

Uncle Nick’s closing its Boardman store

BOARDMAN

The Boardman location of Uncle Nick’s Greek Fried Chicken is closing, and the company is operating solely out of its Austintown location.

The Boardman store, at 640 Boardman-Canfield Road, reported its closing Tuesday because of a sudden loss of its lease.

Orders will be delivered to Boardman.

The Austintown Uncle Nick’s is at 136 N. Canfield-Niles Road.

Foundation sets up First Place fund

YOUNGSTOWN

The Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley established the First Place Community Fund, which will continue and expand the work of the First Place Community Foundation.

The First Place Community Foundation — created by First Place Bank in 1998 to manage its charitable activities — will convert to a donor- advised fund within the foundation. The foundation provides investment management, grant-making and administrative services to nearly 100 donors and agencies throughout Mahoning and Trumbull counties. The fund is the third local fund to turn to the community foundation for these services in the past year.

‘First Friday’ events set in Columbiana

COLUMBIANA

The Columbiana Area Chamber of Commerce will host “First Friday” in downtown Columbiana from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday. The public is invited.

Special events include a Popsicle cart, children’s activities, free bingo and movie, sidewalk musicians, line-dance demonstrations, sidewalk sales, a farmers market, quilt show, Grace Church Bicentennial tours, historical-society tours and more.

In case of inclement weather, some special events might be canceled.

Brown questions OMB definition

WASHINGTON

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, called on the administration to justify proposed changes to the Census Bureau’s definition of “manufacturing.”

In a letter to acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, Brown and six colleagues questioned why OMB would allow American companies without production in the U.S. to count statistically as domestic manufacturers. Brown also urged OMB to work with Congress on this issue.

Vindicator staff/wire reports