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2 days ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – When Deon Reed, a recovering addict, found out he was getting a new liver, he had all but given up. Then he realized what a miracle it was. “I accepted death, but I’m so grateful to be here,” Reed, one of the graduates of Flying High’s Professional Development Center, said during a ceremony Thursday. Doctors had told his mother he was going to die, Reed said. Then he got the call that a liver was available.
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2 days ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
LISBON, Ohio – Pondi’s Restaurant & Bar, a family-owned business since 1914, served its first burger in 1916. Recently updated with the addition of Pondi’s Market, the business is poised to continue for another century. Matt and Jessica Borza, owners for the past 26 years, and their new partner, Treg Stevens, recently expanded the dining area, updated the air conditioning, created a handicapped accessible entrance and modernized the bathrooms and the kitchens for the restaurant and the market.
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3 days ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A partnership with a local lender can help small businesses navigate both as startups and growing, expanding entities. Local commercial lending experts say their institutions help entrepreneurs and business owners to access the funding they need to be successful. Gregory L.
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5 days ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
WARREN, Ohio – With the Peninsula project redesigning downtown and companies like Kimberly-Clark investing in the area, the city is on the upswing. During the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber’s Good Morning, Warren event Tuesday at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center at Warren G. Harding High School, which attended by a record-setting 260 people, Mayor Doug Franklin laid out some of the wins the city’s hard work has achieved recently and spoke optimistically about the future.
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5 days ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio – Many village residents remain concerned about the toxic chemicals released from the February 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment. Now it appears they were not alone in those concerns. Documents from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which the Government Accountability Project obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, showFEMA and other government officials were concerned too.
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6 days ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
CANFIELD, Ohio – Earning money is one thing, but knowing how to save it, spend it or use it to generate more can be tougher skills to acquire. According to a Pew Research Center study released in December, 72% of American upper income households believe they know at least a fair amount about personal finances, while 56% of those in middle income households and only 42% in lower incomes.
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1 week ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
CLEVELAND, Ohio – While roughly 5% of Americans have stopped using cash, 92% say they have no intention of going cashless in the next five years. During a Cleveland Fed Talk presentation Wednesday, Kristin Hamblin, program manager of operations for the Fed, reported the figures from the annual Diary of Consumer Payments Survey. Of the monthly payments a person makes, cash is the third most used method behind credit and debit cards. Checks and mobile apps are the least used.
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1 week ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
Editor’s note: This story will be updated. SHARON, Pa. – Sharon Regional Medical Center now has a new name – Sharon Regional Health System. The hospital’s new name was unveiled Thursday during a celebration of its reopening by Tenor Health Foundation. Joined by a large number of hospital staff, state Sen. Michele Brooks and Radha Savitala, founder of Tenor Health Partners, cut a ribbon in front of the hospital’s emergency room. That was followed by the announcement of the new name and logo.
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1 week ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Amber Walley wanted to bring a Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop franchise back to her hometown after she fell in love with the product while living in Las Vegas in 2008. She comes from a business background. Her partners are her brother, Preston Walley, who has both business and hospitality degrees, a Cordon Bleu culinary certificate and has been in the construction business. Their mother, Sue Walley Zickefoose, who was a daycare administrator, is the silent financial partner.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Deanne Johnson
SHARON, Pa. – Jake Rickert, associate executive director at Penn-Northwest Development Corp., knows the closure of Penn State Shenango will only make economic development in the Shenango Valley tougher. And personally, he knows it will make it more difficult for students. Rickert is a Penn State Shenango alumnus. “I got out of the military in October,” Rickert said, adding that is a tough time of year to get enrolled into school, and bigger schools were slow to respond.
