IN BRIEF
CRANBERRY TWP — Michele Jurysta has been named advertising director of The Cranberry Eagle, which is published by the Butler Eagle.
Among her duties in the newly created position are the management of the newspaper's sales staff and the oversight of the newspaper's advertising initiatives. She assumed the post Friday.
Jurysta has worked in various advertising sales capacities for the Butler Eagle since 1992 and also was a national advertising executive for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Jurysta has been active in the Butler County community through work with the Lifesteps Gala Committee and the General Federation of Women's Clubs. She is a past recipient of the Butler County Distinguished Service Award.
She is a 1988 graduate of Butler High School and a 1992 graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
She lives in Butler with her daughter, Hallie.
EMLENTON — The Farmers National Bank of Emlenton announced a hiring and a promotion.Jennifer Roxbury has joined the bank as senior vice president and chief operating officer. She had been COO for NexTier Bank in Butler.She is responsible for managing Farmers National's branch network, financial services division, facilities and all consumer loan and deposit operations.Roxbury lives with her husband and two daughters in Butler.Aubery Hulings of Knox, Clarion County, has been promoted to vice president and operations manager.She will oversee the deposit and consumer loan operations. Hulings has been with the bank for more than 10 years and most recently held the position of regional manager of the bank's west region.<br></br><br></br>
PARKER — The Central Electric Cooperative is one of the rural utilities that will get U.S. Department of Agriculture money to develop a smart grid and new jobs.Money for Central Electric will pay to build 74 miles of new distribution lines and to make improvements to 129 miles of distribution and 7 miles of transmission line.More than $2.1 billion in loans are provided by USDA's Rural Utilities Service, a Rural Development Agency, to help rural electric utilities build and upgrade America's electric infrastructure.<br></br><br></br>
DALLAS — Alcoa got the earnings season off to a disappointing start.The aluminum producer on Tuesday reported third-quarter net income that fell far short of expectations. Concerns about a slowdown in the global economy pushed down prices for aluminum by 12 percent in the July-through-September period and weighed on the company.Alcoa is involved in just about every aspect of the aluminum business, from mining to smelting to selling rolled metal sheets that wind up as aircraft, autos, soda cans and many other products. The broad use of its material makes Alcoa a bellwether for the economy.Alcoa's third-quarter net income totaled $172 million, or 15 cents a share. That was better than net income of $61 million, or 6 cents per share, a year earlier, but weaker than the second-quarter numbers and analysts' forecasts.
<B>John Bauer </B></I>and <B>Jennifer Bauer Eroh</B> attended the 93rd meeting of Selected Independent Funeral Homes in Scottsdale, Ariz., in September.Bauer is the owner and Eroh is the president of Bauer-Hillis Funeral Home and Cremation Services in Petrolia with branches in Rimersburg, Kittanning, Elderton and Dayton.
