Huntington Bank will close its branch at 127 S. Main St. as of Dec. 30 and consolidate with its branch at 500 Sterling Village.

“This is going to be a lot more convenient for our customers,” said Chris Mancuso, manager of the bank's Beaver-Butler county district.

Bank customers already were given a 90-day notification of the change.

All of the employees at the Main Street branch have been offered jobs in the company, and two of the three will work at the Sterling Village location.

“No one is losing a job,” said William Eiler, vice president of regional public relations.

PITTSBURGH — The certified public accounting firm of Wittlin Simon & Newman, PC (WSN) merged this month into McCall Scanlon & Tice, also a CPA firm.WSN principle Herb Wolfson and two staff members joined McCall Scanlon & Tice, LLC. WSN, founded in 1948, serves clients in such areas as retail, real estate, professional corporations and individual/trust tax.McCall Scanlon & Tice, which has offices in McCandless Township and Kittanning, focuses on such areas as nonprofits, local governments, ERISA Plan audits, service, retail, wholesale, professional services, real estate, construction, manufacturing and oil and gas.Rich Kovach, a partner with McCall Scanlon & Tice, lives in Butler County. The merged firms have more than 40 clients in the county.

PHILADELPHIA — Jennifer Bauer Eroh, president of the Bauer-Hillis Funeral Homes, was awarded the Selected Independent Funeral Homes' Educational Trust Outstanding Service Award at the organization's annual meeting in Philadelphia in September.The Educational Trust provides scholarships, educational programs and other offerings for those who work for independent funeral homes.Eroh has been a trustee for the educational trust since 2011.She has also been instrumental in raising money for the trust.Bauer Family Funeral Homes is a family owned firm with locations in Kittanning, Elderton, Dayton, Petrolia and Rimersburg.

SPRINGFIELD TWP, Mercer County — The Slovak Folk Crafts store will be closing by the end of this year for financial reasons, according to a store news release.Slovak Folk Crafts has operated since 2000 and is owned by Anne and Dave Dayton. After living in Slovakia for four months in the spring of that year, the Daytons returned home with the intention of helping the people of Slovakia make a transition from living under a communist-controlled economy to a free-market economy.The store has imported handcrafted items made by more than 200 Slovak artisans plus hundreds of other handcrafted items from artisans in the United States and more than 30 other countries.Dave Dayton said, “Anne and I extend our sincere thanks to the many thousands of people who have faithfully supported this mission project over the last 14 years through their purchases and generous donations.”