The Smithsonian has come to Savannah, Missouri.The Way We Worked, the latest Smithsonian Institution exhibit to travel through Missouri will stop at the Andrew County Museum from May 5 through June 2. The exhibit shares stories of how work became a central element in American culture and how...
Heinen Repair Service started out as a one-man farm equipment repair shop in 1984 when some area farmers helped Bill Heinen set up shop outside Valley Falls. Over the years it has grown to include automotive, construction and small engine repair, and lawn and garden equipment sales. Together, with...
A northeast Kansas company is getting some much deserved national attention.Berg Repair, of Westmoreland, Kan., received the coveted Vermeer Platinum Masters Dealer award from Vermeer Corporation last month. Despite the name, Berg Repair is more than a repair shop.
The owner of McElwain Sprayers took a while to follow his dream. As a husband with four kids, he was working as a long-distance truck driver when a friend of his asked if he'd like to go for a ride in his small plane. As soon as McElwain's feet left the ground, he was hooked.
Bart Keller grew up playing and working in the aisles of Farm & City Supply in Falls City, Neb. He was just six years old when his parents bought the store from Larry Weaver in 1978. Even so, at that age, Keller's future became clear. "I knew my whole life this is what I was going to do," Keller says. "I went to college for a few years after high school and then came back in '92 full time."
PowrBid.com is harnessing the power of the internet to bring auctions to buyers, instead of the other way around. The owner of the new online auction service says the site just got started last year, but already has buyers from all over the country, including bidders in Minnesota, New York and California. But typically, his buyers are more regionally located in Kansas, Missouri, southern Iowa and southeastern Nebraska Thursday, March 08, 2012
Jim Cohorst loves cars and he's got the career to prove it. His love affair began in Marysville, Kan., in the late 1950s. Growing up in the small Kansas town, Jim started trading cars - buying one, fixing it and selling it, only to buy another and do the same thing all over again. His wife and his high school sweetheart, Lois remembers riding to school in those works in progress.
Hiawatha Implement's new facility is green. Really green. And it has nothing to do with the John Deere tractors. The new 40,000 square-foot facility on West Oregon Street in Hiawatha is full of reclaimed furniture and architectural elements from demolished buildings and other businesses.
