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Ribbon cutting

YOUNGSTOWN

Potential Development High School, 2405 Market St., will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 3 p.m. today to celebrate an elevator installation. There also will be an open house for the second-floor renovation of the facility, with tours available until 5 p.m. Potential Development serves students with autism.

For information about the school, visit potentialdevelopment.com.

Opening marked

GIRARD

To mark the opening of a new location, Leppo Inc. will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. Friday at Leppo Rents, 2612 W. Liberty St. Leppo, which has seven locations in Ohio, provides construction equipment sales, rentals and repairs.

Affordable housing

COLUMBUS

Huntington Bank recently announced it is investing $150 million to ensure affordable housing continues for those most vulnerable throughout Ohio. This additional allocation brings Huntington’s cumulative investment in partnership with Ohio Capital Corp. for Housing to $513 million during the past seven years.

This marks Huntington’s third major investment commitment to Ohio targeted for the development of affordable housing, with previous announcements of $100 million in 2010-2012 and $150 million in 2013-2015 and an additional investment of $113 million in 2016.

No return to the ‘horse-and-buggy’ era, says Gorsuch

WASHINGTON

Assured of support from majority Republicans, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch was wrapping up two days of Senate questioning Wednesday to glowing GOP reviews but complaints from frustrated Democrats that he concealed his views from the American public.

Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge in Denver, refused repeated attempts to get him to talk about key legal and political issues of the day. But he did tell Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who worried that Gorsuch would vote to restrict abortion, that “no one is looking to return us to horse-and-buggy days.”

Calif. may face ‘significant risk’ from dam

SAN FRANCISCO

California is courting a “very significant risk” if a damaged spillway on the nation’s tallest dam is not operational by the next rainy season, and the state’s plan leaves no time for any delays, a team of safety experts has warned in a report obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.

Crews working to repair a crippled spillway on the Lake Oroville dam will be racing the clock to have the spillway in good enough shape by fall, according to the report prepared by an independent team of consultants and submitted to federal officials last week.

Staff/wire report

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Alcoa Inc., .1233.700.48

Aqua America, .71 31.950.05

Avalon Holdings,2.29-0.51

Chemical Bank, .2749.30-0.65Community Health Sys. 8.40 0.18

Cortland Bancorp, .2818.640.04

Farmers Nat., .1613.00-0.15

First Energy, 1.44 31.420.06

Fifth/Third, .5224.84-0.07

FirstMerit Corp.,21.610.37

First Niles Financial, .1210.000.00

FNB Corp., .4814.34-0.03

General Motors, 1.5234.40-0.15

General Electric, .9229.530.14

Huntington Bank, .28 12.780.08

iHeartMedia Inc.,3.551.00

JP Morgan Chase, 1.9287.550.16

Key Corp, .3417.1550.26

LaFarge, .3417.570.00

Macy’s, 1.51 28.38-0.04

Parker Hannifin, 2.52 157.540.64

PNC, 2.20118.64-0.06

Simon Prop. Grp., 6.60165.46-3.50

Stoneridge 18.160.00

United Comm. Fin., .12 8.23-0.16

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