New menu items at Quaker Steak

New menu items at Quaker Steak

YOUNGSTOWN

Four local Quaker Steak & Lube restaurants will have new limited-time menu offerings through April 6 at participating locations.

The new items include the QBurger, iceberg wedge chicken salad and Asian chicken salad.

Limited-time Lenten options include grilled fish tacos, classic fish and chips and a cod fish sandwich.

The locations offering these options are 5800 Interstate Blvd., Austintown; 435 Boardman-Poland Road, Boardman; 2191 Millennium Blvd., Warren; and 101 Chestnut St., Sharon, Pa.

Zone change OK’d for Shell gas station

BOARDMAN

The Shell gas station on Market Street near Shields Road soon will have a full convenience store after the township trustees approved a zone change for the property at a meeting Thursday.

The station, operated by TrueNorth Energy LLC, will use property currently used for parking, which previously was zoned as a residential parcel and now is commercial, to construct a new building at the site.

TrueNorth plans to redevelop the property and has gone through all the steps required by the township and Mahoning County to start the project.

The company also will add landscaping to the property and improve other features of the site, said Sarah Gartland, township zoning inspector.

‘Economic Report of the President’

WASHINGTON

President Barack Obama’s top economists say that even as the U.S. has managed to kick start a lasting and growing recovery, modest wage gains are far from making up for decades of paycheck stagnation for middle-class workers.

The White House, in its annual report to Congress, also warns that despite the nation’s relative economic strength, slowdowns abroad still pose dangers at home.

The 400-page “Economic Report of the President” is a largely bullish portrayal of the economy replete with appendices, charts and statistical tables designed to support Obama’s policy initiatives.

As investors dump utility stocks, US markets edge lower

NEW YORK

A slide in shares of utility companies nudged the U.S. stock market lower Thursday.

Utilities were the day’s biggest losers, falling 1 per-cent, and their losses resumed a trend that emerged in late January. Investors have dumped the dividend-rich stocks as the yield of the U.S. 10-year note creeps higher.

Energy stocks also weighed on the market Thursday.

Overall though, U.S. stocks have rebounded from a January slump. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index has reached all-time highs in February and is on track for its best monthly performance in more than three years. Company earnings are still growing, and the economy is continuing to recover.

Staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Aqua America, .61, 25.95-0.37

Avalon Holdings,3.400.02

Clear Channel, .46 18.54-0.1

Cortland Bancorp, 15.61-0.01

Farmers Nat., .127.990.03

First Energy, 1.44, 36.220.11

Fifth/Third, .5219.200.08

FirstMerit Corp., .64,18.060.07

First Niles Financial, .32,9.150

FNB Corp., .48,12.89-0.04

General Motors, 1.2037.510.32

General Electric, .88,25.01-0.01

Huntington Bank, .20, 10.640.01

JP Morgan Chase, 1.60,59.23-0.14

Key Corp, .26,13.90-0.04

LaFarge, 18.77-0.1

Macy’s, 1.25, 63.00-0.52

Parker Hannifin, 1.92, 123.240.39

PNC, 1.92,91.620.31

RTI Intl. Metals,28.49-0.2

Simon Prop. Grp.,5.20,189.81-4.47

Stoneridge 12.100

Talmer Bank, 13.55-0.15

United Comm. Fin., .04 5.250.01

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