Business Section :: Page 28

• Sale of Kings Yard north closes

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 2, 2010

  

  Local resident Bob Baldwin purchased the string of shops on the northern edge of Kings Yard yesterday.

• Apprender a new language

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 18, 2010

  

  “Te gusta mas agua, Quinn?” the teacher asked Quinn Creighton, who sat at the table with the others, coloring. Creighton, 4, looked up at her thoughtfully, and nodded, holding out his cup for more water. People begin their language acquisition skills from birth, and as early as eight months…

• The best way to Spanish, French is absorption

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 17, 2010

  

  Laura Skidmore started her Primary Language school located in a classroom above the Winds Cafe and will continue with a new session in January.

• A day honors unique toy stores

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 11, 2010

  

  A Solar Rover, made from a recycled soda can and powered by the sun, allows children 8 and up to not only create a fun vehicle, but learn about green-energy use. A Perplexus, a three-dimensional maze game, helps kids 6 and up develop dexterity skills and eye-hand coordination by providing barriers to overcome.

• Corner-copia: saag paneer in winter, the homemade way

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 4, 2010

  

  When Akhilesh and Pratibha Nigam arrive at the Indian Food Corner — located at Corner Cone on Dayton and Walnut Streets — in the morning, they start each dish from scratch. If they’re making saag paneer — which they undoubtedly are, since the spinach/cheese favorite is one of their five menu items…

• Indian food comes to the village

  By Diane ChiddisterOctober 22, 2010

  

  The Nigam family has opened the Indian Food Corner at the Corner Cone site, selling take-out Indian food from 11 a.m.–7 p.m. each Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The restaurant’s first day was Thursday, Oct. 21.

• GCCC upgrades are good for the earth and pocketbook

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 23, 2010

  

  When local architect Ted Donnell began working with the Greene County Career Center five years ago, he brought with him an environmental ethic that culminated in a $6.1 million energy upgrade over the summer, replete with geothermal heating and cooling and an insulated roof.

• Hatching New Liberty Farm

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 16, 2010

  

  The butter-yellow chicks twittering about in their baby blue swimming pools look and sound happy and healthy. Though in about six weeks, most of them will become someone’s dinner, their brief lives will be spent frolicking with their brothers and sisters with plenty of grains, bugs and grass to eat. The folks at New Liberty Farms would have it no other way.

• Books and cobblers at new cafe

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 9, 2010

  

  At the new Rolling Pen Book Cafe, patrons can relax, read a book and enjoy a cup of coffee with some homemade cobbler. Newly opened in the space formerly occupied by Dolbeer’s Cleaners, the book cafe is the vision of Springfield residents Brenda Stone Browder and her husband, Loren.

• A chicken farm to save the planet

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 8, 2010

  

  When local resident Kat Krehbiel hatched the idea for a local food farm, chickens were only a small part of the plan.