Business

Comfort Care-A-Van opens new office

YOUNGSTOWN — Comfort Care-A-Van, a non-emergency transportation company that focuses on providing safe and reliable transportation is opening its first office in the Youngstown area. Located at 805 Mahoning Ave., the company will serve residents of Trumbull, Mahoning, and Columbiana counties. Comfort Care-A-Van provides transporation to medical appointments, dialysis visits, shopping trips, social events, or to visit family and friends. The vehicles are top of the line, providing wheelchair accessibility, as well as comfortably accommodating up to seven individuals per trip. In ...

Consumers should feel muted impact from rising oil price

DALLAS (AP) — OPEC’s decision to cut production gave an immediate boost to oil prices, but the impact on consumers and the U.S. economy is likely to be more modest and gradual. The cartel agreed Wednesday to cut output by 1.2 million barrels a day, reversing a strategy that produced lower oil prices and pain for U.S. drillers but saved money for consumers. Even if OPEC members carry through on their promises, global oil production would only fall by about 1 percent. There is still more supply than demand — the reason oil prices collapsed beginning in mid-2014. The ...

DC Music grand re-opening

Property Transfers

Center Township Tamara and Edward Sabol Jr. to Tommy and Patricia Hall, 126 acres on Lisbon Road; $200. Tamara and Edward Sabol Jr. to Thomas and and Irene Miller, trustees, et al, 126 acres on Lisbon Road; $6,500. Sandra Akenhead to Joseph Wilson, home on Eric Drive; $110,000. J. Martin and Elisabeth Sayre to Joseph and Ruth Ann Keller, 6 acres on Miller Road; $30,000. Columbiana Jane Ferguson to Colleen Eisenbraun, home on South Main Street; $78,500. East Liverpool Suzanne Hill (foreclosure) to Deutsche National Bank, home on Jennings Avenue; ...

Property Transfers

Butler Township Luke Courtney to Melanie Einstein, manufactured home and 2.8 acres on Georgetown Road; $83,500. Mark and Cathy Hoopes to Shawn and Corina Wright, home on Valley Road; $190,000. Center Township Ann and Ashley Bendle to Gerald and Lee Sheely, 74 acres on Adams Road; $1,000. Columbiana Timothy and Carol Whitehouse to Matthew Bertolette, home on Prospect Street; $80,000. Larry Snyder to Roberta Rydarowicz, home on West Park Avenue; $10,000. East Liverpool Robert Porter to Rockie Smith Jr., home on Harvey Avenue; ...

Zatezalo speaks at summit

WEIRTON—District 1 Delegate Mark Zatezalo, R-Hancock, recently spoke at the Governor’s Energy Summit at the Stonewall Resort in Roanoke, W.Va. The conference was designed to provide government and industry officials and other interested parties a chance to assess the implications of shale gas developments and their effect on the state. Zatezalo, a registered professional geologist and a member of the House Energy Committee, spoke on a “Geologic Perspective of Shale Gas Development.”