This is a cool story about a local school district investing in wind…because it’ll save themmoney over the next 25 years (probably more so with rising oil costs): The board first heard of the opportunity in January when Performance Services, an engineering and construction company that specializes in sustainability projects, said in January that public [...]
I just nominated our county for the Google Fiber project as well as signed up as a business. Here’s the website if you’re local with info on the whole project: Elkhart is one of the counties hit hardest by the economic downturn. The residents of the county have endured layoffs and encountered difficulty finding new [...]
RedPost is now starting to sell LCD mounts designed and manufactured locally by MOR/ryde (check out their product line here), who builds several components we use, including our custom-designed Sign/Post. These are great mounts — rock solid, high quality, much better than a lot of the cheap crap coming out of China nowadays. Here’s a [...]
From the IEDC release: ATLANTA (March 4, 2010) – Elkhart, Ind. was the top destination for new corporate investment in 2009 among metropolitan areas with populations less than 200,000, according to data tracked in Conway Data Inc.’s New Plant Database. … Governor’s Cup winners are selected based on the number of new corporate location projects [...]
South Bend, located beside Goshen (where RedPost is) in neighboring St. Joseph County, just got some bad news — GM is closing down the Hummer plant. That shouldn’t help our local unemployment numbers one bit (somewhere around 1,500 people work there). It’s also marks the end of an economic era in the U.S..
but I love stats like this: Here are some examples from U-Haul of its current one-way rental rates for a 26-foot truck: From Dallas to San Francisco: $734 From San Francisco to Dallas: $2,116 From Houston to Los Angeles: $706 From Los Angeles to Houston: $2,051 In both cases, it’s almost three times more expensive [...]
I was at an all-day planning meeting today along with 200 or so other community leaders to launch “Horizon 2.0“, a new phase of the Horizon Project which was completed in 2003. It’s a great plan, but the devil’s in the implementation. Some good speakers, including the former mayor of Indianapolis, Bart Peterson; Bob Jorth, [...]
In the last newsletter of the Indiana Rural Health Association. See it here. Also, in a semi-related note, Maple City Health Care, where RedPost’s IHIN is being beta-tested, was featured on NPR today for their community-service-for-healthcare program. Check it out: A low-cost health care clinic in Goshen, Ind., has come up with a business plan [...]
All of this: Used to be in here: We’re doing a trial run with ADEC, a local non-profit who’s mission is “Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities.” ADEC disassembles the electronics at their facility in Elkhart; they recently received a grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation to do so. After the trial run, we’ll see [...]
From today’s issue of the Elkhart Truth comes news that: GOSHEN — Elkhart County businesses, churches and schools won’t be able to get too flashy with their outdoor signs anymore. In a bid to minimize distractions to drivers and maintain “tranquility” in residential and agricultural zones, Elkhart County commissioners on Monday approved new rules limiting [...]
