The Ohio Tax Credit Authority on Monday granted one of Bluffton's largest employers, Grob Systems, a $340,044 payroll tax credit on its plans to hire up to 113 new full-time jobs over seven years.
The Icon understands that average wage of the jobs will be $15 per hour, plus $3.08 per hour in benefits. They will add $3.5 million to Grob's payroll.^aEUR"^aEUR"
The company designs and builds equipment and production lines for the auto industry, including Ford and General Motors.
Video and story by Jordan Howe, Bluffton Icon intern
It's your first time on the Bluffton University campus. You are in Marbeck Center and can't find Founders Hall. What do you do? You ask the student working the Marbeck front desk.
What's it like directing traffic, answering questions, helping with the mail and answering the campus phone? Senior Abby Clark gives some insight on what happens behind the Marbeck front desk, and her work experiences at Bluffton.
Work on Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio's Green House project is underway. The project is under the watchful eye of Neufeld residential Hall in the frame of the contruction equipment.
The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce will offer two free programs on Friday, Nov. 11, in the town hall. Both are in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall.
The monthly free breakfast meeting offers a breakfast provided by Richland Manor with serving at 7 a.m. The 7:30 a.m. breakfast meeting will feature Bluffton resident Jeff Sprague of Allen Economic
Development Group as the speaker.
American culture generates restlessness, telling people through advertising that what they have-including other people in their lives-isn't good enough. As a result, many get on a "treadmill," always looking for something better, Dr. Norman Wirzba said Nov. 1 at Bluffton University.
Sabbath sets restlessness aside, though, telling those who take time for it that they, and the ones they're with, are gifts from God, added the Duke Divinity School professor.
Stratton Auto Sales, 220 N. Main St., Bluffton, is offering a $109 pre-winter car care special during November and December.
The offer includes:
*Oil and filter change
*4-tire rotation and inspection
*Multi-point inspection
*Anti-freeze drain and refill
*Balance 4 tires
*Battery/charging sytem check
oCheck heating system
Call Stratton Auto Sales at 419-358-1900. For a printer-friendly coupon of the $109 coupon print the attachment at the bottom of this story. This offer expires Dec. 31, 2011.
Dr. Thomas Streeter, professor and chair of sociology at the University of Vermont, will address "The Net Effect: What the Internet Tells us about Ourselves" at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Bluffton University's Yoder Recital Hall. The forum is free and open to the public.
Streeter is the author of the 2010 book "The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet," a study of the role of culture in the social construction of Internet technology.
