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After seeing those horrible red and white "going out of business" signs in the windows of Bogey's Books, I had a little internal cry and started visiting the store on a tri-weekly basis to buy novels at an amazing discount. Buying books there is now bittersweet. I love a sale, but not at the expense of a favorite store closing forever. Some people, the non-literati, might think I'm overreacting, that I should just go to Borders down the street. "They have books too, don't they?" the non-literati say. No, non-literati, Borders is lame. I don't want my money going to the "man." Also, I've been told by super-secret sources that Borders is just a cover-up money laundering operation for the South American drug industry. Of course, my super-secret source was a co-worker at the independent bookstore that I have worked at for the past four summers, so I don't know how slanted that theory might be.
SharePoint: Asigra Broadens Enterprise Footprint By Supporting Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Asigra Inc., the technology leader in agentless backup and recovery software for enterprises and service providers targeting the growing managed storage services market, recently announced that its award-winning Televaulting technology supports Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Now, enterprises can protect SharePoint data across distributed sites while managed service providers (MSPs) can offer a backup service that covers the most comprehensive array of platforms and applications on the market. More and more companies of every size are turning to Microsoft SharePoint technologies for collaboration, workflow, and document management. Consequently they are creating critical business data on servers that need to be protected to the same high level as their Exchange servers.
2 killed in 4 a.m. fire: Man, woman die in mobile home blaze
LEWISTOWN � Two people died early Sunday morning when a fire consumed a bedroom inside of a mobile home on Business 522 in Mifflin County.
According to initial reports, Granville Township Police were the first to arrive at the home, located at 9650 U.S. Hwy. 522. Officers were able to use fire extinguishers to contain the blaze, but not before the home�s two occupants, identified as Jason M. Specht, 33, of Lewistown, and Sherry Leonard, 43, of 377 Cromwell St., Orbisonia, were killed, reports indicate.
Business 522 was shut down at about 3:20 p.m. Sunday, and remained closed into the night as the fire was investigated by the Pennsylvania State Police Hollidaysburg Fire Marshall.
Granville Township Police Sgt. James Carter said his department had turned over the investigation to the Pennsylvania State Police.
Local Dairy Queen in business almost 10 years
DO YOU KNOW is a small business piece that will run in the business page of the Granite City Press-Record on Wednesdays as an informational tool about local business. If you would like your business in the paper, e-mail Michael Heil at mheil@yourjournal.com.The Dairy Queen at 3260 Nameoki Road has been chosen as the first business entry for Do You Know.The business has been located on Nameoki Road since 1998. The franchise is owned by Bob Steen of Pontoon Beach. Steen's son, 22-year-old Rob Steen, is the general manager who oversees the day-to-day operations. Dairy Queen is famous for its charbroiled hamburgers. .
Tax issues' complexity grows
Many small-business owners meeting with their accountants this month and next may find that year-end tax planning and projections for 2008 are a little more complicated than usual because of the uneasy economy. "We're finding a lot of clients due to the economy aren't doing as well as they've done in previous years," said Jeffrey Berdahl, a certified public accountant with Berdahl & Co. in Center Valley, Pa. "We're not seeing as much of top-line revenue growth." For many business owners, that means cash flow isn't as healthy as they'd like. And so decisions typically made toward the end of the year -- for example, whether to buy new equipment or whether to set up a retirement plan -- need to be thought through even more carefully. As always, what businesses do for the balance of the old year needs to be considered in the context of projections for 2008.
SMLs offered new services to help growth
SMALL and medium-sized firms are to be offered a series of new services to help them expand. Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce is offering a new service that helps firms in a range of areas, including carrying out surveys to help them know and understand customers and providing its own research on the markets. .
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