Rite Aid announces two more Valley locations closing

Rite Aid will be closing more of its stores here in the Valley. 

The pharmacy announced Friday that they'll be closing their stores at 300 East Lincoln Way in Minerva and 220 Third Street in Wellsville. 

Rite Aid announced that they'll be closing over 100 stores throughout Ohio and Michigan after filing for bankruptcy in 2023. 

Earlier this month, the pharmacy announced that they'll be closing stores in East Market Street and North Road in Howland and West Broad Street and Windham Road in Newton Falls, prompting pushback from the Newton Fall's location's landlord, S&S Singh Partners. 

Sukhjit Singh wrote a letter to bankruptcy judge Michael Kaplan saying that if Rite Aid closes the Newton Falls location, his partners will be left with a property worth less than half of what he paid for it in 2017. 

"We are small-time folk whose livelihood and savings were invested in this property, and we have a large mortgage balance remaining on the property with an interest rate reset on the horizon," Singh wrote in the letter. "This will leave us in a tough spot and on the brink of having our savings wiped out completely."

Singh is asking the court to order Rite Aid to pay the rent due to his company through the expiration of the lease.

Rite Aid has already closed several stores throughout the Valley, including stores in Austintown, Youngstown and New Castle.