Business

Several businesses are lined along the Washington Ave. and Adams St. construction project. Editor Doug Hanneman went around to several businesses to ask about the effect the road closures have had on these stores and offices. Read Thursday's edition of the Hutchinson Leader for more information.

The southbound lane of Main Street was closed for a time Wednesday morning after natural gas and carbon monoxide was discovered in Main Street Sports Bar. Hutchinson firefighters and workers from Hutchinson Utilities were called at about 9:45 a.m. to air-out the building and shut off the gas. Owner Rahn Hoseck, who was working in the front of the building, said a supplier coming in the back door told him about the gas smell. They immediately left the building and called for assistance.

At the 75th anniversary event, McLeod Co-op Power Association General Manager Kris Ingrenthron used a kerosene lamp to describe to members how life was before the co-op began serving area residents in the 1930s. For more information, see the April 8 print edition of the Leader.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty listens as his economic development commissioner, Dan McElroy, tells of some of the things the state did to help bring NuCrane Manufacturing to Hutchinson. They visited the plant Wednesday morning.

Hutchinson Manufacturing Inc. owner Tom Daggett joined others in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday morning to mark the completion of a 54,000-square-foot factory that will make large industrial cranes for such customers as nuclear power plants. NuCrane Manufacturing is a partnership between Daggett and PaR Nuclear, a Twin Cities-based subsidiary of Westinghouse. Find out more about this new business in the March 25 print edition of the Leader.