Sue Simpson, vice president-marketing at M&T Bank, presents a check to Don Olsen, Scout executive, Potomac Council, Boy Scouts of America, right, based in Cresaptown.

Aircon Engineering of Cumberland recently earned a state award for corporate philanthropy.

Women who own small businesses will be able to use a new online U.S. Small Business Administration training course to learn how to identify and take advantage of federal contracting opportunities.

Melinda Gibson joins advisory council

Automated Office Equipment Inc., a full-service office equipment company, has acquired the assets of Copy Systems Inc. in Frederick.

Lonaconing resident Michele Robey, an independent sales director for Mary Kay Inc., has earned the use of a new Saturn Vue as a result of her achievements in operating her independent business

A contract agreement with U.S. Windforce approved unanimously by the Mineral County Commission establishes a $250,000 annual minimum property tax payment for the proposed Pinnacle wind farm project.

Enoch P. Price was a successful businessman after he served in World War I. He came out of the U.S. Army as a quartermaster and started a horse and buggy transfer business. By the time World War II broke out, Price had 37 dump trucks on the road from Ohio to Baltimore. Many of the trucks hauled coal in the Georges Creek and Mount Savage areas.

Marcellus Shale in Garrett County is shaping up to be a goldmine and the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Cooperative Extension wants to ensure that exploration of the formation will benefit both energy companies and landowners.

From left, Nick Kellock, chief operations officer, Concord Hospitality Enterprises Co.; John Sherman, manager, Cumberland Fairfield Inn & Suites; Mary Beth Pirolozzi, chief executive officer, County United Way and Cumberland city councilwoman; Mark Laport, Concord’s chief executive officer; Michael Roberts, Concord’s regional director of operations and Nicole Wagoner, director of sales, talk Tuesday evening during a grand opening celebration for the newly constructed hotel at Canal Place. Hotel officials also announced a partnership of support with the United Way, and proceeds from a basket raffle as well as employee donations went to the organization.

Maryland’s top senior citizen officials are using a furlough day on Wednesday to help prepare and serve lunch at Willow Valley Apartments.

When Steve Stouffer’s dad handed him an employment application for the Cumberland Times-News in 1968, the Art Institute of Pennsylvania graduate wasn’t at all interested. Instead, Steve had his sights on Houston, Texas, where he had spent a summer with an uncle after graduating from Hyndman High School four years earlier.

Wilson Supply Co., a diversified Cresaptown firm with welding at its core, is helping others learn that skill through a $20,000 gift establishing an endowed fund in the name of a late employee, Veryl Morgan.

Walmart will distribute 1,000 American flags at the South Cumberland Business and Civic Association’s 60th anniversary Halloween parade Oct. 28.

Martin’s offers Tamiflu medication in liquid form

Mike Saville, right, accepts a gift card from Richard “Doc” Daugherty, left, president of Chessie Federal Credit Union, for his 40 years of service to Chessie.

Dr. James Poland and Dr. Jeffrey Poland of Lifetime Eyecare Center recently announced the addition of a new optometrist, Dr. Linda S. Haidar.

The deadline for Maryland’s tax amnesty is Oct. 30, giving delinquent taxpayers one final opportunity to pay their tax liability with only one half of the interest owed and no fear of criminal prosecution.

Rent-A-Center Manager Les Beckman is glad to be back in the Keyser community after serving rent-to-own customers in Ohio for nearly 20 years.

The Allegany County Chamber of Commerce recently welcomed a new business, The Cumberland Keep, to Allegany County and to the organization.