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By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Streicher’s Quickprint, just south of the Blanchard River at 109 S. Main St., where the business has sustained hundreds of thousands of dollars in flood damage over the years, has a new owner. Brian Mitchell, 35, took over the business in January....

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Ears of sweet corn grew above John Wolfe’s head when he picked them as a boy for his grandparents’ business, Wolfe’s Produce, 11343 Ohio 37. Today, as the leader of the business in its third generation and 75th year, Wolfe, 52,...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER NORTH BALTIMORE — Five years after CSX opened its North Baltimore freight railyard, more than a thousand jobs have been created in Hancock and Wood counties at companies that do business with CSX, a state agency says. But Hancock County and North...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Conversion of two downtown parking spaces to a minipark, just for Friday, was a hit with downtown workers and residents. The little park was adorned with shrubs, small trees, benches and chairs, all on sod. Sharon Rooney and her daughter, Erin Poling,...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Wal-Mart’s Trenton Avenue store is housing the company’s 10th regional employee training academy in storage space converted to classrooms. The academy graduated 30 department managers and supervisors from its Trenton Avenue store in a...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.’s Findlay scientists have reached a milestone toward replacing Asian rubber now used in tires with rubber from a southwestern U.S. desert shrub, Cooper reported Thursday. The latest progress at Cooper’s Global...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Findlay and Hancock County now have someone working full time to erase a worker shortage that threatens to cripple the local economy. Laurie Zydonik on Wednesday was introduced as director of Raise the Bar Hancock County, created to tailor future workers...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Thursday morning, long before happy crowds came to the Hancock County Fair, Dwight Wilson was at work, examining a honey pumpkin muffin on a paper plate. His briefcase was open and off to the side. Picking up a plastic fork, he cut off a piece of the...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Honey making became a competition at the Hancock County Fair for the first time Thursday. Novices got a lesson in exactitude and thoroughness from judge Dwight Wilson. Wilson lifted jars of honey up to the light. Particles in the honey, or fingerprints...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER In a celebration of its century-old relationship with Findlay, Marathon Petroleum Corp. on Thursday opened its new MPLX headquarters downtown to private tours. The six-story, 120,000-square-foot MPLX headquarters is connected to Marathon Petroleum...