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Open house set Saturday for indoor pickleball facility in Niles

Staff report The Dink Yard, a new indoor pickleball club, will present its grand opening from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at its club’s facility, located at the former Joann Fabrics in the Eastwood Mall complex. Lifelong Valley residents Skylar and Lindsay Coulter said they are bringing their vision to life by creating a space for competition and community. “Our mission is simple: Bring year-round pickleball to the Valley in a space that’s just as much about connection as it is competition,” the pair said in a news release. “Whether you’ve been playing for years or ...

Musk reports Tesla sees sales increase after months of boycotts

NEW YORK (AP) — Months after Elon Musk left the Trump administration to the relief of Tesla investors worried about boycotts, the world’s richest man has announced some good news: Sales of Tesla cars are back. Well, maybe. The electric vehicle maker run by Musk reported Thursday that car sales jumped 7% in the three months through September after plunging for most of the year as people turned off by his embrace of President Donald Trump and far-right politicians in Europe balked at buying his cars. But the jump comes with a caveat: Tesla benefited from consumers taking ...

Gold prices soar to new records amid US government shutdown

NEW YORK (AP) — As uncertainty deepens amid the U.S. government’s first shutdown in almost seven years, the gold frenzy continues to climb to new heights. The going price for New York spot gold hit a record $3,858.45 per troy ounce — the standard for measuring precious metals — as of market close Tuesday, ahead of the shutdown beginning overnight. And futures continued to climb on Wednesday, dancing with the $3,900 mark throughout the day. Gold sales can rise sharply when anxious investors seek “safe havens” for parking their money. Before Wednesday, the asset — and ...

New car buyers flock to Chevrolet, Ford brands in August

Staff report Northern Ohio franchised dealers sold 18,957 new motor vehicles in August, a slight decrease compared to the same month last year. Sales in the region were off by 0.79% last month according to figures released by the Greater Cleveland Automobile Dealers’ Association, while year to date numbers remain ahead, beating 2024 by 7.09%. “Northern Ohio August sales matched 2024, leaving the market at just over 7% ahead through 2025,” said Louis A. Vitantonio, the association’s president. “We have outpaced the nation to date, but feel that in the second half of the ...

US consumer confidence declines again as Americans fret over prices, job market

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence declined again in September as Americans’ pessimism over inflation and the weakening job market continued to grow. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell by 3.6 points to 94.2 in September, down from August’s 97.8. That’s a bigger drop than analysts were expecting and the lowest reading since April, when President Donald Trump rolled out his sweeping tariff policy. A measure of Americans’ short-term expectations for their income, business conditions and the job market fell to 73.4, remaining well ...

Prices for home remodeling outpace inflation

LOS ANGELES (AP) — If it seems like its getting more expensive to replace a broken door, kitchen fixtures or upgrade a major appliance, you’re not wrong. The cost of home repair and remodeling projects is up compared to a year ago and running ahead of inflation overall, according to a report from data analytics company Verisk. The firm’s latest Repair and Remodeling Index jumped 3.4% in the April-June quarter compared to the same period last year. That’s a bigger annual increase than the 2.7% rise in inflation in the same period, as measured by the Consumer Price index. The ...