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[1 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 275 views]
Cupcakes Take the Cake

After nearly 30 years in various medical businesses and more than 110 flights a year over the past few years between Indianapolis, New York, Atlanta, Denver and other major cities, Susan Tingley is ready to give it all up for cupcakes.
Caboodle Cupcakes, a new business in Terre Haute, is a way for Tingley to have her cake and eat it too. Used to being seen in a suit with a briefcase, her former boss and co-workers couldn’t believe it when she told them she was hanging up her management position …

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[1 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 162 views]
All in the Family

Driving along South 25th Street, you may or may not notice Reynolds & Co. No large lighted sign or massive facade is visible, but this is an understatement to its steady contribution in the local economy for the past 63 years.
Founded in 1946 by the late Stephen Gruesing Reynolds, the company has been led by his son Jerry since 1975. Reynolds remains a family company with Jerry’s wife Jean working in the business just as Stephen’s wife Lucille did in their time.
Typical of family businesses, Jerry started working part time …

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[1 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 217 views]
Conservatory of Music

When Len Quinlan began giving piano and organ lessons at the Conservatory of Music while a student at Indiana State University, he could not have foreseen his family-owned Conservatory of Music still thriving today. Becoming the general manager and then the owner came later.
“My Uncle Len poured his heart and soul into the business for 33 years,” Jim Quinlan, Len’s nephew and Conservatory president, said. “He was planning to retire in 2009, but passed away in 2007.”
“I returned to the Conservatory in 2001 with the intent to make it a …