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Three dealerships form partnership

YOUNGSTOWN

Cerni Motor Sales of Youngstown, O’Halloran International of Iowa and Uhl Truck Sales of Indiana and Kentucky recently announced that they are joining forces to better serve customers and employees as TriVista, a partnership that became official June 1.

Each dealership currently sells and services International Trucks, Navistar’s flagship brand; offers maintenance services for International buses; leases and rents trucks as affiliates of Idealease Inc.; and offers a number of other complimentary commercial truck products and services. The three family-owned companies will maintain their individual brands but use a shared logo design incorporating the TriVista name.

Home Savings to celebrate office renovation

BOARDMAN

Home Savings will celebrate the completion of a major renovation of the bank’s Boardman office with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in partnership with the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber. The event will take place at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at the Boardman office, 7525 Market St.

On the same day, Home Savings also will present a donation to Making Kids Count, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to making the lives of children and families a little brighter by focusing on the individual needs. The money will be used for the Comfort Kit Program, which provides infants, children and teens entering foster care with a new care bag to replace items they were forced to leave behind.

Quaker may be required to cease its operations

COLUMBIANA

Quaker Manufacturing Corp., 187 Georgetown Road, has filed a Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification because it may be required to permanently cease operations.

Quaker, if required, plans to permanently close beginning next Tuesday.

A total of 115 employees, including salaried and hourly personnel, will be laid off on a permanent basis as a result of the plant closure.

For more than 50 years, Quaker has provided solutions for the manufacturing challenges of the metal forming industry, according to its website.

Defendants in Pilot case want time to consider pleas

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.

Defendants in the federal case against former executives at the truck stop chain owned by the family of Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam want more time to decide whether they want to strike plea agreements.

The eight former Pilot Flying J employees in a Knoxville federal court filing Monday asked to push back the deadline by a month to July 21, arguing the current schedule would give them only one week to decide about pleas after the cutoff date for prosecutors to provide documents they intend to introduce at trial.

Staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Alcoa Inc., .1231.80-1.22

Aqua America, .71 33.350.36

Avalon Holdings,2.54-0.26

Chemical Bank, .2749.810.21Community Health Sys. 8.60 0.16

Cortland Bancorp, .2818.73-0.02

Farmers Nat., .1615.100.20

First Energy, 1.44 29.530.42

Fifth/Third, .5225.190.13

FirstMerit Corp.,--

First Niles Financial, .129.670.00

FNB Corp., .4814.36-0.07

General Motors, 1.5234.690.35

General Electric, .9228.951.01

Huntington Bank, .28 13.370.08

iHeartMedia Inc.,1.800.00

JP Morgan Chase, 1.9286.990.03

Key Corp, .3418.59-0.03

LaFarge, .34--

Macy’s, 1.51 22.66-0.04

Parker Hannifin, 2.52 157.130.09

PNC, 2.20122.85-0.32

Simon Prop. Grp., 6.60159.784.18

Stoneridge 15.390.15

United Comm. Fin., .12 8.790.01

Selected prices from Monday’s 4 p.m. close.