BASF to cut 2,000 jobs after reporting 24% profit fall (Market Watch)

LONDON (MarketWatch) — BASF AG on Thursday said it would cut 2,000 jobs worldwide after the German chemicals company reported a 24% decline in third-quarter profit.   more.

Forums offer no help on looming Toppenish budget crisis

Yakima Herald Republic - We need a new […]

At a glance

Muskogee Daily Phoenix - Second low bid of $61,747.68 from Keystone Equipment for backhoe. Low bid from Van Keppel failed to meet specifications. ? Accepting low bid on Civic Center interior renovations project. ? Retaining Steven Andrew to represent the city in .   more.

The Community Network (Rockland Village Soup)

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Bliss expansion project begins

El Paso Times - Most of the construction will be done at Biggs Army Airfield, which is to be transformed into a small city in the next five years . It just means great things for El Paso; more jobs, more income for the town.” Richard Dayoub, president of the Greater […]

Playground’s back, better

Asbury Park Press - Construction of the park began in August. The project cost the township about $495,000, Brush said. Bids to regrade the site and install the new equipment topped $1 million, he said. The township was awarded a $55,000 state Green Acres grant for the .   more.

September unemployment rate […]

Veteran excavator digs being his own boss

Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin - He also digs graves at Hope Cemetery and other small burial grounds around Tioga County, using a backhoe to scoop to a depth of just 4 1/2 feet. “If you were to go 6 feet, you’d have a hole big enough for three […]

Resort construction to start in spring (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)

Armed with a California appellate court decision in their favor, developers of a luxury resort near Kenwood plan on starting construction in the spring.   more.

Man Killed after Backyard Caves In (14 WFIE Evansville)

UPDATE, SUN 8 PM: The autopsy was done Sunday on […]

In Our View: Closure

Texarkana Gazette - It took just 15 minutes for the backhoe to do its job. Starting before dawn on Friday, with spotlights illuminating the scene, the machine tore into the one-room wood-frame schoolhouse, quickly reducing it to a pile of rubble. Then the dump trucks .   more.

Ethanol’s euphoria wanes

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Governments Offer Incentives to Save Ford Jobs (WTOL News 11)

MAUMEE — Several local governments have come up with a plan to save jobs in northwest Ohio. The city of Maumee, Lucas County, the Toledo/Lucas County Port Authority, and the UAW have offered Ford Motor Company more than $15.7 million in incentives to keep the […]

City council approves new police, fire equipment

Paris Beacon-News - The amount of $5,890 will allow the former drive-up banking equipment to be removed and for construction a new south wall. ?We will demolish the drive up equipment on the south side and will make the wall insulated like the others,? said Morgan .   […]

Dow to expand Hahnville plant

KPLC TV - The expansion will create an average of 100 construction jobs over the next year, with as many as 275 construction workers employed at the peak of the project. However, the expansion will not result in the creation of any full-time permanent jobs at .   more.

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