Dollar General gives $9,000 for literacy

Dollar General gives $9,000 for literacy

YOUNGSTOWN

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation awarded $9,000 to area schools, nonprofits and literacy organizations Thursday.

Neighborhood Ministries Inc. in Campbell received $3,000; Austintown schools received $2,000; and Lakeview High School received $4,000.

These grant awards, used to enhance and support youth literacy and education programs, are part of more than $4 million in grants awarded to about 870 schools, nonprofits and organizations throughout the 43 states Dollar General serves.

Professionals mixer to begin at YSU

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning Valley Young Professionals’ September mixer will take place Thursday at Christopher’s Downtown, 100 E. Federal St.

Starting at 4:30 p.m., there will be a walking tour of Youngstown State University’s campus. The tour will begin with an optional first stop at the McDonough Museum of Art. At 5 p.m., there will be a tour at the YSU Ward Beecher Planetarium. The tour will end at the Williamson College of Business Administration Conference Center, and then guests will proceed to the downtown mixer.

The event is free, but RSVPs are required by Monday. To RSVP and for more information, go to mvypclub.com.

Marshalls scheduled to open Sept. 24

BOARDMAN

Marshalls will open in Tiffany Square on U.S. Route 224 Sept. 24, the store’s parent company said Thursday.

Marshalls, owned by TJX Companies, is an off-price retailer with about 1,000 stores.

The grand-opening event runs from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the 25,000-square-foot location at 1130 Boardman-Poland Road.

The regular store hours will be: 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sundays.

EvenBay launches Howland office

WARREN

EvenBay Real Estate has announced the launch of its Howland office serving consumers in Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana counties. The new office is in Suite 2 at 1745 Niles-Cortland Road in the Harvard Commons.

Applications for jobless aid drop

WASHINGTON

Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, keeping this key indicator of labor market health near historic lows.

The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications for unemployment benefits dropped 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 275,000. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, increased 500 to 275,750.

Benefit applications had risen 11,000 in the previous week to 281,000. But even that temporary uptick left benefit claims, a proxy for layoffs, below the 300,000 mark. Applications have been below that level for the past six months, a stretch last seen 42 years ago.

Staff/wire reports