GLEN ALLEN, Va. , Nov. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company (NYSE: HBB) (the Company) today announced that the Board of Directors declared a regular cash dividend of $0.115 per share. The dividend is payable on both the Class A and Class B Common Stock and will be paid December 13, 2024 , to stockholders of record at the close of business on December 2, 2024 . About Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company is a leading designer, marketer, and distributor of a wide range of branded small electric household and specialty housewares appliances, as well as commercial products for restaurants, fast food chains, bars, and hotels. The Company's owned consumer brands include Hamilton Beach ® , Proctor Silex ® , Hamilton Beach Professional ® , Weston ® , and TrueAir ® . The Company's owned commercial brands include Hamilton Beach Commercial ® and Proctor Silex Commercial ® . The Company licenses the brands for Wolf Gourmet ® countertop appliances, CHI ® premium garment care products, CloroxTM True HEPA air purifiers, and Brita HubTM countertop electric water filtration appliances. The Company has exclusive multiyear agreements to design, sell, market, and distribute Bartesian ® cocktail makers and Numilk ® plant-based milk makers. The Company's Hamilton Beach Health subsidiary is focused on expanding the Company's participation in the home health market. In February 2024 , Hamilton Beach Health acquired HealthBeacon, a medical technology firm that specializes in developing connected devices. For more information about Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company, visit www.hamiltonbeachbrands.com . View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hamilton-beach-brands-holding-company-declares-quarterly-dividend-302313651.html SOURCE Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company
HERMITAGE — A proposed city operating budget could see Hermitage residents’ taxes and other fees remain the same for 2025. The Hermitage Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to introduce the proposed budget at their Nov. 20 meeting. The proposed budget will be put to a final vote at the board’s next meeting on Dec. 18. The 2025 budget calls for total general fund expenditures of $16,714,595, an increase over the total expenditures of $16,242,406 budgeted for 2024. Property taxes will remain at five mills. For a property assessed at $30,400, the city’s average assessed value, the property owner would pay about $152 in property taxes. Assessments are based on 1970 values, the last time a county-wide assessment was done. The city’s earned income tax will remain at 1.75%. City residents pay an additional 0.5% to the school district as well as separately levied property taxes to Mercer County and the school district. Hermitage City Manager Gary Hinkson said this will be the 34th consecutive year without a property tax increase. The 2025 budget includes a transfer of $2,041,363 to the city’s capital budgets, including $1,493,038 for capital construction and $548,325 for capital equipment and facilities. Equipment purchases include three new SUVs for the Hermitage Police Department, utility trucks for the Hermitage Volunteer Fire Department and a new street sweeper. The city’s current street sweeper is about 17 years old. Aside from maintenance issues, replacement parts are becoming more difficult to find, if they can be found at all, Hinkson said. Within the municipal building, city officials will replace the computer systems for the planning department and inspection and code office, and install a new heat pump. The capital construction fund will cover paving Tiffany Lane and Fran Lane, both between Bonny Lane and Jerry Lane, Briarwood Road and Anderwood Drive, according to city documents. Other improvements include milling, base repair and new street signs. The project is expected to cost $496,000. The capital construction fund will also cover the next phase of the city’s Neighborhood Investment Program, or NIP. The NIP addresses the city’s older neighborhoods in phases each year. Next year’s phase of the NIP will include improvements to Fern Street, from Greenwood Drive to Baker Run. That project is expected to cost $515,300. But aside from just road improvements, that project will also add a modern stormwater collection line along Fern Street, Hermitage Assistant City Manager Gary Gulla said. “Some of the surrounding streets flow into that line,” Gulla said. Hinkson added that while there haven’t necessarily been issues with flooding or stormwater pooling in the area, the stormwater system along Fern Street dates back to at least the 1950s. City officials will use about $164,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds to make improvements to South Crescent Drive from King Drive to the dead end, and King Drive from South Crescent Drive to Greenwood Drive. Other planned city projects include improvements to Rodney White Olympic Park, located near the Hermitage Municipal Building. The project, which would replace the playground’s surface and equipment, is mostly funded by a $177,000 grant, while the city will cover the remaining 15% of the project’s cost. The Hermitage Athletic Complex, located at 750 S. Darby Road, is expected to see some improvements as well. There are plans to connect the complex’s trail system to the nearby Lorenwood Drive neighborhood, extend the trail system within the complex and pave the entirety of Lorenwood Drive. A pair of Multimodal Transportation Fund grants in the amounts of $330,000 and $350,000 will help fund the project. There are also plans to build nine pickleball courts and expand parking and pedestrian accessibility at the complex, which will be funded by a $1.25 million grant that was awarded through the state Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. Work on those projects is expected to begin in 2025, Gulla said. City officials are cooperating with the Hermitage Little League and Penn State Shenango to improve the Carl Harris Little League Complex at 500 Virginia Road. The roughly $781,000 project is expected to be funded with grants, while the city will cover the design and engineering costs. The project will improve the complex’s fields for local games and provide a place for some of Penn State’s intercollegiate sports. Construction is expected to begin around mid-2025, Gulla said. One decrease in the budget comes with the Wheatland neighborhood, which will have $54,700 budgeted toward it in 2025, compared to the $141,372 budgeted in 2024. The former borough merged with Hermitage effective Jan. 1, 2024. Gulla said the higher figure budgeted in 2024 was based on historical borough expenditures prior to the merger, while the 2025 figure is based on more accurate information gained post-merger. However, city officials say the Wheatland neighborhood will still receive significant investments next year. These include about $180,000 which will be spent paving roads in Wheatland’s residential neighborhoods. Those particular roads will be determined in the future, Hinkson said. “These are Highway Aid Funds the borough had received before the merger, so we thought that those funds should remain in Wheatland,” Hinkson said. City officials plan to replace the roof of the Wheatland Community Center, a $200,000 project that will be funded with a grant from the state Department of Community and Economic Development. Another project will improve the signalized intersection at Council Avenue and Broadway Road. Those signals will then be linked to the intersection at Broadway, Church Street, Mercer Avenue and Emerson Avenue. The project is expected to cost about $500,000, with $430,000 covered by grant funds. The Hermitage Municipal Authority will extend the city’s sewer lines in the industrial area of Council Avenue, which is expected to be a $200,000 project. It was found that businesses in the area were not connected to a municipal sewer system, nor did they have on-lot systems. Instead, businesses maintained tanks that stored waste on-site. This waste was eventually collected by a sewage company and taken elsewhere for disposal, Hinkson said. “There’s no pollution of the environment there, but the authority wanted to move forward with the project next year,” Hinkson said. The sewer lines in that area will use a gravity-flow system, so property owners will not have to install grinder pumps. However, they will have to connect to the city line, Gulla said. City officials will continue their efforts to develop the Town Center Project, which envisions turning the area around the Shenango Valley Mall property into a mixed-use town center. Toward that end, the City Center Corridor Beautification Project would replace the concrete medians with plants and greenery along state Route 18 from the Shenango Valley Freeway to the area between School Drive and Hickory Global Methodist Church. The total project is expected to cost about $142,000. City officials applied for a $70,968 grant through the state Department of Community and Economic Development. The city previously received a $20,000 grant from VisitMercerCountyPA, the county’s tourism agency. The Shenango Valley Mall itself is expected to be torn down and developed, although the property owner’s plans remain unclear. Hinkson said Monday the mall was expected to be demolished within a couple weeks. The developers will have 90 days from the time demolition begins to have the area cleared.
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Sunday night's Philadelphia Eagles' 37-20 victory at the Los Angeles Rams was a record-setter and an attention-getter ... especially, as far as Saquon Barkley knew, when it comes to attention from the NFL people who administer drug tests. Barkley's spectacular 255-rushing-yard, two-touchdown game saw the former New York Giants back lead the Eagles to a 9-2 start. Following the game and his 300-total-yards day, several other stars on the Eagles took notice of just how good Barkley really is. "He's the best in the league. He's the best at what he does," Quarterback Jalen Hurts said. "He's a bad man." "Bad'' as in ... so good the league wanted to test him for drugs? As it turns out, the note in his stall in the visitor's locker room calling for a league test was a prank orchestrated by tight end Dallas Goedert. Related: Can Eagles Compete With Red-Hot Lions? Barkley is in a neck-and-neck race with Derrick Henry of the Baltimore Ravens for the rushing title. ... and deserves to be in the MVP conversation as well. Running backs rarely win the award - it's become a QB thing - but if Barkley reaches 2,000 rushing yards this season? It'll be a conversation piece ... and no joke. Unlike the drug test note left in his locker. Related: NFL MVP Race: Josh Allen vs. Saquon Barkley?Javon Small scored 31 points to rally West Virginia to an 86-78 overtime upset of No. 4 Gonzaga in the opening round of the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament , Wednesday in Nassau, Bahamas. The Mountaineers (4-1) trailed by 10 points early in the second half and by five in the final minute. But over the final 19 seconds of regulation, Tucker DeVries scored five straight points to send the game to overtime. In the extra session, Small scored five points and West Virginia held Gonzaga to a single field goal, which came after the outcome was decided with 19 seconds left. Amani Hansberry added a career-high 19 points and eight rebounds for West Virginia, which advances to the semifinals Thursday against another surprise first-round winner, Louisville, which stunned No. 15 Indiana. BATTLE 4 ATLANTIS 2024: Bracket, teams, schedule for college basketball tournament Braden Huff scored 19 points and Khalif Battle added 16 points for Gonzaga (5-1) which settles for a consolation-round game Thursday against Indiana. Nolan Hickman tallied 13 points. Ryan Nembhard delivered seven points and 12 assists for the Bulldogs. Huff put Gonzaga in position to win when he made three hook shots in the final 2:34 of regulation as the Bulldogs turned a one-point deficit into a 69-66 lead. Two free throws by Nembhard expanded the lead to 71-66 with 25 seconds left. But DeVries followed with a 3-pointer from the top of the key and then made a mid-court steal and drew a foul with 5.9 seconds left. His two free throws sent it to overtime. The Mountaineers never trailed in overtime. Sencire Harris wrapped it up with a steal and a breakaway slam that put West Virginia up 84-76 with 26 seconds left. Battle, a transfer from Arkansas, scored eight points in a span of 90 seconds late in the first half as the Bulldogs took control on their way to a 39-31 lead at the break. Gonzaga earned its biggest lead early in the second half when Graham Ike scored inside with an assist from Nembhard to make it 43-33. But West Virginia responded with a 17-2 run, fueled by Small as he hit two 3-pointers and two layups. Hansberry drained a trey and DeVries grinded for a putback layup to give the Mountaineers a 50-45 lead with 12:26 left. DeVries finished the game with 16 points and four blocks. The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news — fast . Download for award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and more .
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Christians in parts of Lebanon celebrated the downfall of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad over the weekend, gathering in town squares to launch celebratory fireworks and gleefully tearing down pictures of Assad from border crossings. Among the Christian groups happiest to see the end of the Assad dynasty is the Lebanese Forces Party (LF), a militia group and current political party active during Lebanon’s civil war in 1976 led by a Maronite Christian leader named Bachir Gemayel, an ally of the U.S. and Israel, who was assassinated less than a month after being elected president of Lebanon in 1982 in a bomb attack that also killed dozens of his supporters. The assassination triggered further bloodshed, including an LF attack on Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon guarded by Israeli forces that killed hundreds of people. Dr. Samir Geagea, current leader of the LF, said on Monday that Lebanese Christians have long blamed the Assad regime – then under the command of Bashar Assad’s father Hafez – for using terrorist cutouts to murder Gemayel because he was allied with Israel and opposed to Syrian influence in Lebanon. The assassinations of Lebanese Druze leader Kamal Jumblatt in 1977 and Sunni Lebanese President Rafik Hariri in 2005, along with the deaths of numerous other figures in Lebanon, are similarly believed by the Lebanese to have been targeted killings orchestrated by the Assad regime to protect its interests in Lebanon. Geagea told leaders of his party they should view Assad’s overthrow as “the day of Bachir Gemayel.” “They assassinated him, but turned him into a symbol,” Geagea said of Gemayel. “This is also a day of justice – not just for Syria, but for Lebanon.” A poster of Lebanon’s assassinated president-elect Bachir Gemayel is displayed by supporters of the Christian Lebanese Forces Party as they gather in Beirut’s Achrafieh neighborhood on December 8, 2024, to celebrate the downfall of the Assad regime in Syria. (IBRAHIM AMRO/AFP via Getty Images) The LF leader urged Hezbollah, Iran’s terrorist proxy and political party in Lebanon, to surrender its weapons and abandon its dreams of dominion by force, since Syria was a vital link in its supply chain of Iranian weapons. With Syria under the control of a Sunni jihadist alliance opposed to Iran, Hezbollah would be very hard-pressed to rebuild the combat capacity that was annihilated during its ill-fated war with Israel over the past year. “The game is over,” Geagea told Hezbollah. “Every day you delay is a day wasted, for yourselves and for all Lebanese.” “This is the beginning of building a true state in Lebanon,” he declared. Lebanese media channel MTV on Sunday marked the fall of Assad by commemorating the Lebanese victims of his regime, including Gemayel, Jumblatt, and Hariri. There were many more names on the list, including journalist Samir Kassir, a prominent Lebanese critic of the Syrian regime who was killed by a car bomb in 2005. Lebanon’s MTV channel also broadcast a fireworks display in Beirut celebrating the fall of Assad’s regime. Some Christians in Syria were thankful for the protection Assad extended to their communities, viewing him as the lesser evil compared to the hardcore Islamists who would eventually overthrow him. In the early months of the war, some Syrian Christian leaders openly stated they would prefer Assad to win quickly, because they feared the horrors of ISIS and al-Qaeda even more. Lebanese Christians had fewer reasons to appreciate Assad’s rule, and they have long memories of the murders ordered by his family. There are relatively few Christians left in Syria after ten years of a brutal civil war and the rise of the Islamic State. When the civil war began in 2011, there were about 1.5 million Christians in Syria, but today there are less than 300,000. Many of them fled into Lebanon, especially after ISIS began wiping out ancient Christian communities. Lebanon’s Christian refugees from Syria can only hope that Assad’s downfall, and the general disaster of Iran’s proxy war against Israel, will weaken Hezbollah and give Lebanon a chance to build a functioning government and multi-ethnic society after years of corruption and stagnation. Their odds of ever returning home to Syria have dimmed with an al-Qaeda offshoot holding power in Damascus – an outcome many of them feared throughout the long, bloody years of the Syrian civil war.Ford says he has 'zero tolerance' for intimate partner violence, but not yet declaring it epidemic
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