Apprentices are also guaranteed tiered pay increases as they develop certain skills, something that the guy down the street doesn’t have to provide. For that matter, the guy down the street might flake on his promise to teach the business to the new hire, while a formal mentor business seems likely to make good on the commitment.

Meyer, on her phone, was watching Twitter explode with comments from enraged customers. “What should I tell them? We’ve been apologizing too much lately. ‘Thank you for your patience.’ Ugh.”

"Hopefully, sometime we’ll be able to open another store in Crown Point," he said. "It has cupcakes and ice cream, so it’s not a seasonal business. There’s a dessert for everyone year round."

Dragobobs will be open from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Eventually it will be open from Wednesday through Sunday.

When growing families are in the market for a medium SUV up to about $30,000, the dilemma that always arises is the question of value versus priorities. Will the buyer settle for a car that comes close enough to the purchasing criteria while remaining under budget? Or is it worth the financial stretch of an extra two or three grand for a vehicle that has everything the buyer demands?

 Present were Mayor Berg, Councilmembers Andy Spray, Shane Hooton, Tansy Shelton and Dallas Sill, Public Works Director Jared Crane, Clerk Lisa Bradshaw, Chief Kathy Adams and Attorney Thayne Peterson.

Those who Live Mas or Think Outside the Bun can soon make a "run for the border" near the Indiana/Illinois state border.

“Believe it or not, we’re getting inquiries for backyard versions,” she says. “People might laugh, but clearly the need is there.”

Sound science will be employed to quantify and validate water use claims of certain plants. The data generated will enable the industry to better position certain plants as being verifiably drought tolerant or low water use. Landscape managers and nursery producers in states that experience periodic drought conditions, such as California, Texas, Georgia, and Florida, will benefit most from this study.

Binkowski, both a boomer and a rock and roll fan himself, knew he wasn’t just pitching to fund managers who controlled large amounts of cash. He was also talking to people around his age, who grew up with the same music as he did and would probably be excited that he had designed a rollercoaster with Led Zeppelin.

Zygmunt Dyracz and Lela Headd Dyrkacz, who own the acclaimed Chopin Theatre in Chicago’s trendy Wicker Park neighborhood, want to see the 1,400-square-foot building a few blocks from the beach become a community gathering place again. They moved from Chicago to Miller in search of some quiet after having kids.

Barazone says this spring both the Cub 300T and the Grizzly 600T will be retired and replaced by the newly designed Grizzly 900T which combines the best features from both machines and installs smaller rolls from 5 feet for the new introduced grids to 18 feet for the widest of geosynthetic rolls.