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CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF LUMBER
Marion's Bob Stotlar Building Center President and co-owner Rob Stotlar goes over blueprints on a new home with a customer.
JOHN D. HOMAN / THE SOUTHERN
COMPANY SURVEYING NEED FOR BUSINESS FLIGHTS MURPHYSBORO -- Gary Hill of Cherry Hill Realty in Carbondale develops senior citizen housing. Because most of the state agencies governing such housing are
STATE OFFERING GRANTS FOR SPECIALTY GROWERS SPRINGFIELD -- Denise Winder grows pumpkins, gourds and squash on her Rustic Ridge Pumpkin Farm in Lena, just a short seed spit from the Wisconsin border. Her counterpart in the Mattoon and Charleston area is Stephen Niebrugge, who packages his pumpkin patch with a maze, wagon rides, a haunted trail, a petting farm and crafts.