DOT contract flip-flop leaves landscaping business hurting

When Jim MacNary got the word in March that his company, Northline Landscaping, had won a big Capital Region highway mowing contract with the state Department of Transportation, he started planning his year accordingly. The three-year agreement called for Northline's crews to mow, pick up litter and trim weeds three times each year (three "cycles" per year) along four highways that make up a ...

TESH remodel begins Monday

JEROME A. POLLOS/Press Dwight Bershaw, with Clearwater Summit Group, makes notations on a set of construction plans Wednesday while discussing upcoming landscaping and concrete work at TESH Inc. with Jack Caswell, with Winkler Concrete, and Larry Roberge, with ACI.

Precious saffron

Colliers International will hold an exhibition for Saffron Square this week - offering locals a glimpse of the striking development in Croydon, South London. Known as London's third city after the City of London and Westminster, Croydon is prized for its wealth of architecture, business opportunities and entertainment facilities.

Steve Cahalan: Phyion to open in part of S&S Cycle complex

Phyion Inc., a start-up company that will use advanced plasmatechnologies to apply coatings, plans to open about Nov. 1 in partof the S&S Cycle Inc. complex on Causeway Boulevard.

Lawmakers eye state's many tax exemptions

World-Herald News Service LINCOLN - If you drive across the river to Iowa to get your car repaired, be prepared to dig deeper into your pocket.