Business

ANDRES O’NEIL & LOWE INSURANCE AGENCY ACQUIRES KING-KREG INSURANCE AGENCY

Andres O’Neil & Lowe Insurance agency, an insurance broker with locations in Archbold, Bryan, and Wauseon, has added its fourth office. The company has acquired King-Kreg Insurance Agency of Hicksville, Ohio. “After 50 years at King-Kreg Insurance Agency, the decision to retire and sell did not come without careful consideration. The …

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Montpelier Selling Some Real Estate

An approval to sell a small, just under one half acre, piece of prop­erty on Main Street in Mont­pe­lier, was approved by the Mont­pe­lier Vil­lage Coun­cil Mon­day evening. The prop­erty being sold, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, is located east of the street depart­ment barn, and mea­sures 45 by 282 …

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DIVERSIFIED MACHINE TO SHUT DOWN IN EDON

Pub­lished reports this morn­ing say that Diver­si­fied Machine in Edon is clos­ing it’s doors for good. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, employ­ees of the Edon plant were told that due to eco­nomic con­di­tions the com­pany is clos­ing the plant in Feb­ru­ary 2014. The first jobs elim­i­nated will be in July, …

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ARMSTRONG ITEMS UP FOR AUCTION

A Texas auc­tion house says it is orga­niz­ing and prepar­ing for the sale of items from Neil Armstrong’s boy­hood home. The first man to walk on the moon died last August at the age of 82. Her­itage Auc­tions says the fam­ily which bought the house in the mid 60’s have …

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LOCOMOTIVE SPOTTED!

A report in today’s Bryan Times says that Nor­folk South­ern Railroad’s one-of-a-kind Vet­er­ans Loco­mo­tive was spot­ted near the Ohio 107 over­pass Wednes­day morn­ing. Diesel No. 6920 was ded­i­cated Nov. 12 at the railroad’s head­quar­ters in Nor­folk, Va., to honor employ­ees that have served in the mil­i­tary. Nor­folk South­ern employs 4,200 …

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GOOD NEWS FOR STRYKER PIZZA RESTAURANT

Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter board mem­bers learned at their meet­ing on Tues­day that the Mama DeLuca’s® Pizza Now! store in Stryker led all of the franchise’s stores in net sales in 2012. The man­ager of the pizza store as well as the SUBWAY® Restau­rants oper­ated by Quadco, told the board mem­bers …

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LIVE HEALTHY INITIATIVE OFFERED

Live Healthy Live Well is a free, six week, online email chal­lenge designed to help par­tic­i­pants improve their health by encour­ag­ing reg­u­lar exer­cise, nutri­tion and well­ness tips. Par­tic­i­pants will receive weekly e-communications from Ohio State Uni­ver­sity Exten­sion with tips and recipes to help them get fit. Each week par­tic­i­pants will …

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SPANGLER UNIONS REACH AGREEMENT

It’s a deal! On Thurs­day, after nearly a week of nego­ti­a­tions, mem­bers of Local 20 of the Inter­na­tional Broth­er­hood of Team­sters and Span­gler Candy Com­pany signed a five-year con­tract. Major dis­cus­sion cen­tered around insur­ance and wages.

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WIND FARM PLANNED

Another wind farm com­pany is look­ing at our area. North­west Ohio Wind Energy LLC will hold a pub­lic infor­ma­tional meet­ing at 6pm on April 9 at Wayne Trace High School. North­west Ohio Wind Energy wants to build around 50 wind tur­bines to the west and east of U.S. 127. The …

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