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Hudson manufacturer expanding HUDSON — Cold Heading Co. plans to put more than $5 million into expanding its Hudson plant. Tuesday night, the Hudson Town Council granted a 10-year tax abatement for real estate and equipment upgrades. The company plans to invest $950,000 in a 20,000-square-foot building expansion and put $4.2 million in new machinery and equipment to be installed in the coming months. According to company officials, the expansion will result in five new jobs added to the existing 49
employees currently at the Hudson facility. “We’re happy to work with the Cold Heading Company by offering tax abatement. They are a valued employer and Hudson wants the company to be competitive and profitable,� said Kathy Kope, president of Hudson Town Council. Headquartered in Warren, Mich., Cold Heading also has a Fremont plant, along with manufacturing facilities in Warren, and Cleveland, Ohio. It specializes in fasteners for the automotive,
agricultural and heavy construction industries. The existing 77,000-square-foot facility in Hudson was acquired by Cold Heading in 1996. Two additional facilities totaling 196,000 square feet were added in Fremont in 1998 and 1999. Between the two plants, Cold Heading employees approximately 150 people in Steuben County. “Steuben County and Indiana provide our company a competitive location where we can easily reach our customers in less than a day’s delivery time. We’ve
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Parents grateful for boy’s rescue MICHIGAN CITY (AP) — The parents of a 6-yearold Illinois boy who survived being buried beneath 11 feet of sand at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore for more than three hours last month have told rescuers they are eternally grateful. Faith Woessner of Sterling, Ill., told more than 100 people involved in the rescue of her son, Nathan, that they will always be heroes to her family. She says the rescue increased her faith significantly.
found a reliable workforce and the communities of Hudson and Fremont are happy to help with the tax phase-in program.� said owner Greg Stevens. Over the next 10 years, the company is expected to pay an additional $185,000 in property taxes as a result of the investment. The savings over the same 10-year period is $230,000. Payroll at the Hudson facility alone should exceed $1.8 million per year according to an estimate prepared by the Steuben County Economic Development Corp.
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Trash collection will be delayed due to Labor Day holiday ANGOLA — Communities and residents served by Republic Services for trash pickup will see a one-day delay in service for the week following Labor Day, which is Monday. The communities served by Republic include Angola, Orland, Fremont, Hudson and Ashley. The company also serves by subscription many residents at Lake James, Lake Pleasant, Lake Gage, Lake of the Woods and McClish, Lime, Jimmerson, Snow, Crooked, Wall, Pleasant, Long, Silver, Fox, Golden and Hogback lakes. Regular trash collection will resume the week of Sept. 9.
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Corn maze set to open near Angola Ridenour Acres will open its corn maze Saturday and it will remain open through October. The seven-acre maze, above, is located at 2935 E. C.R. 20N, about three miles east of Harold Chevrolet. Hunter Stevens, Angola, is shown entering the maze on a recent afternoon. The maze is the brainchild of Jake Ridenour, who tried to open his facility last year but due to the drought, the corn was not very tall and thus not effective as a maze. This year, Ridenour said, the corn is upward of 12 feet tall. The maze is open Saturdays from noon to dusk and Sundays from 2-6 p.m. The facility also includes a straw maze, hayrides, bounce games and other autumn attractions. Ridenour can be contacted at 667-1322 or can be found on Facebook.
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ANGOLA — A man who appeared on “America’s Most Wanted� for the 1989 killing of a Hamilton man has filed a motion for a change of venue for his Steuben County jury trial. Mafuz Huq, 47, was returned to Steuben County in late July after being extradited from New Delhi to face charges of murder, burglary, theft and intimidation surrounding the Aug. 9, 1989, Huq death of Todd Kelley, 19, of Hamilton. Huq has been the suspect in the slaying since it occurred but escaped capture until he was taken into custody overseas in February 2011. The story of the case was kept alive through its airing on “America’s Most Wanted� and local lore. After his arrest, news media throughout the area followed the proceedings. Huq was arraigned Aug. 1 and is being held in Steuben County Jail without bail. He is represented by Indianapolis attorney James Voyles, who is
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Obama urges all to continue King’s quest WASHINGTON (AP) — Standing at ground zero on the civil rights movement’s battlefield of justice, President Barack Obama challenged new generations Wednesday to seize the cause of racial equality and honor the “glorious patriots� who marched a half century ago to the very steps from which Rev. Martin Luther King spoke during the March on Washington. In a moment rich with history and symbolism, tens of thousands of Americans of all backgrounds and colors thronged to the National Mall to join the nation’s first black president and civil rights pioneers in marking the 50th anniversary of King’s “I Have a Dream� speech. Obama urged each of them to become a modern-day marcher
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President Barack Obama hugs civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who spoke at the original March on Washington, Wednesday during a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the march at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
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for economic justice and racial harmony. “The arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice but it doesn’t bend on its own,� Obama said, in an allusion to King’s own message. His speech was the culmination of daylong celebration of King’s legacy that began with marchers walking the streets of Washington behind a replica of the transit bus that Rosa Parks once rode when she refused to give up her seat to a white man. At precisely 3 p.m., members of the King family tolled a bell to echo King’s call 50 years earlier to “let freedom ring.� It was the same bell that once hung in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., before the church was bombed in 1963.
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