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Donation to Ursuline
YOUNGSTOWN
Home Savings Charitable Foundation has donated $20,000 to Ursuline High School. The funds will be used for cafeteria lighting upgrades.
Donation to YNDC
YOUNGSTOWN
Home Savings Charitable Foundation recently donated a check for $25,000 to Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. The funds will be used for the Community Financial Literacy Initiative.
Free latte
CANFIELD
On National Coffee Day this Friday, Sheetz’s will offer a free pumpkin-pie latte of any size to all customers who order through the Sheetz app.
This promotion is valid at all Sheetz locations for one day only on Friday.
The Sheetz app is available on Apple and Android devices.
MCCTC flower shop
CANFIELD
The student-run flower shop at the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center has opened its Fall Open House throughout the month of October. The shop will have a variety of fall silk floral arrangements and wreaths available. Fall mums are also available for sale and can be dressed for a gift or planted outside. The shop will be decorated and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday-Friday. Extended hours are available upon request. Customers can pick from a selection of pre-made items or purchase materials elsewhere and have the students create them a piece. Fresh arrangements for any occasion can be made to order with a few days notice. The shop is also taking orders for homecoming corsages.
For more information, call 330-729-4000 Ext. 1672 or Ext. 1671.
New U-Haul location
MINERAL RIDGE
Mahoning Valley Buy, Sell, & Trade at 3821 Main St. is now offering U-Haul products and services.
Sales of new US homes fell 3.4 percent in August
WASHINGTON
Sales of new U.S. homes slumped 3.4 percent in August, the second-straight monthly decline.
The Commerce Department says sales dropped to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 560,000. This followed a 5.5 percent decline in July. Still, sales gains earlier this year mean that sales are running 7.5 percent higher year-to-date than in 2016.
Equifax CEO steps down in wake of data hack
NEW YORK
Embattled Equifax CEO Richard Smith stepped down Tuesday, less than three weeks after the credit reporting agency disclosed a disastrous hack to its computer system that exposed the sensitive personal information of 143 million Americans.
His departure follows those of two other high-ranking executives who left in the wake of the hack, which exploited a software flaw that the company did not fix to expose Social Security numbers, birthdates and other personal data that provide the keys to identify theft.
Selected local stocks
STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE
Alcoa Inc., .1244.77-0.54
Aqua America, .71 33.68-0.17
Avalon Holdings,1.930.00
Chemical Bank, .2750.050.12Community Health Sys. 7.34 0.07
Cortland Bancorp, .2818.150.15
Farmers Nat., .1614.800.05
First Energy, 1.44 30.83-0.27
Fifth/Third, .5227.400.25
FirstMerit Corp.,--
First Niles Financial, .1211.000.50
FNB Corp., .4813.570.16
General Motors, 1.5240.27-0.03
General Electric, .9224.94-0.17
Huntington Bank, .28 13.440.07
iHeartMedia Inc.,1.41-0.19
JP Morgan Chase, 1.9293.70-0.42
Key Corp, .3418.350.08
LaFarge, .34--
Macy’s, 1.51 21.860.04
Parker Hannifin, 2.52 173.87-2.91
PNC, 2.20132.41-1.05
Simon Prop. Grp., 6.60163.613.13
Stoneridge 19.510.35
United Comm. Fin., .12 9.400.22
Selected prices from Tuesday’s 4 p.m. close.