Master chef class

Master chef class

CANFIELD

Local professional chefs are being invited by the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber to attend a master class with renowned Taiwanese chefs Chi-wn Chen and Ching-Long Huang on Thursday at The Bistro at the Mahoning County Career & Technical Center, 7300 N. Palmyra Road, from 2 to 4 p.m.

In addition to the master class, the Taiwanese chefs will also cook with students from MCCTC, Trumbull Career and Technical Center and Choffin Career Center.

The stop is part of the chefs’ five-stop “Tour of Taiwan Gourmet Cuisines” tour across the U.S.

No mail delivery

YOUNGSTOWN

Post offices will be closed for retail business on Labor Day, and there will be no residential or business deliveries, though some services will continue through the holiday.

Deliveries using Priority Mail Express will still be delievered on Labor Day. Stamps are still available at most grocery, pharmacy and convenience stores.

Online services, like package tracking and ZIP code lookup, will still be available.

Gas, oil production

COLUMBUS

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources released production numbers for second-quarter 2017 natural gas and oil production in the state.

During the second quarter of the year, horizontal shale wells produced 4,044,072 barrels of oil and 388,560,451 Mfc (388 billion cubic feet) of natural gas, according to the report.

That is a 17.10 percent decline in oil production from the same time period last year when 4,878,409 barrels were produced.

Natural-gas production increased 16.18 percent over the same time period last year, when 334,431,020 Mfc of natural gas was produced.

Honda owners could get up to $500 in settlement

DETROIT

Honda and some of the people suing the company over faulty Takata air-bag inflators have agreed to a $605 million settlement.

The settlement, which still must be approved by a federal judge, covers owners of 16.5 million Honda and Acura vehicles with the inflators dating back to 2001. They could get up to $500.

SC couple sues Amazon over eclipse glasses

COLUMBIA, S.C.

A South Carolina couple is suing online retailer Amazon over what they claim were faulty pairs of eclipse glasses that resulted in eye injuries, headaches and blurry vision.

In court papers filed in federal court this week, Thomas Corey Payne and Kayla Harris of Charleston said they began experiencing the symptoms after viewing the total solar eclipse Aug. 21 using glasses purchased on Amazon.

On Aug. 10, the retailer began notifying customers via email of a recall of potentially hazardous eclipse glasses that it couldn’t verify as having been manufactured by reputable companies, although it did not reveal the scale of the recall or release a list of affected vendors.

Staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Alcoa Inc., .1245.071.19

Aqua America, .71 33.510.11

Avalon Holdings,1.940.02

Chemical Bank, .2745.560.15Community Health Sys. 7.87 0.23

Cortland Bancorp, .2817.750.00

Farmers Nat., .1613.700.00

First Energy, 1.44 32.42-0.16

Fifth/Third, .5226.410.28

FirstMerit Corp.,--

First Niles Financial, .1210.520.00

FNB Corp., .4812.830.14

General Motors, 1.5237.350.81

General Electric, .9225.140.59

Huntington Bank, .28 12.700.11

iHeartMedia Inc.,1.35-0.10

JP Morgan Chase, 1.9291.700.81

Key Corp, .3417.340.13

LaFarge, .34--

Macy’s, 1.51 21.400.63

Parker Hannifin, 2.52 162.912.02

PNC, 2.20126.591.18

Simon Prop. Grp., 6.60158.171.32

Stoneridge 16.740.18

United Comm. Fin., .12 9.210.12

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