| Designer-printer finds her niche
Every day after school or work, Lisa Nelson would come home, turn on her computer and spend some time playing around with page design and layout.
Eventually it dawned on her that she didn't enjoy work she was working as a pharmacy technician at LDS hospital and she did enjoy fiddling around with a computer. Enough people had asked her for help with designing various newsletters, fliers, business cards and the like that she could maybe strike out on her own and try designing for a living. She opened a printing company out of her home in 2002, naming it Custom Impressions.
However, Nelson said the vision she had of Custom Impressions and the direction it has taken aren't exactly in line.
"It isn't what I thought initially," she said.
Historical Society Moves Ahead with $25 Million Building Plan
The Martha's Vineyard Historical Society is pursuing an ambitious plan to triple its exhibition and storage space in a project that could cost about $25 million. Society executive director Matthew Stackpole yesterday said that, if all goes according to plan, construction of the society's new museum could begin on its property in West Tisbury in 2009, with an opening in June 2010. Driving the plan, Mr. Stackpole said, are the historic materials and artifacts that the society has been collecting since its formation in 1923. The good news, he said, is that the society has a wonderful collection dating back to early Wampanoag and colonial European times. It's the kind of collection that the Library of Congress seeks out for arctic whaling images.
Economist primed to work
Northern Colorado's new regional economist is rolling up his sleeves to begin advising businesses and community leaders. Already, Martin Shields has figured out that consumer spending is softening and the housing market has slowed. Energy prices will be the wild card going forward, Shields said. .
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