2020 Nominee Two: Julz by Alan Rodriguez
Julz owner Alan Rodriguez's devotion to the downtown area is noticeable, but so is the design of his store. With a unique look, Julz can be easily seen by those driving the streets of Canton…
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Julz owner Alan Rodriguez's devotion to the downtown area is noticeable, but so is the design of his store. With a unique look, Julz can be easily seen by those driving the streets of Canton…
Read MoreM. Conley Entrepreneur of the Year Award Nominees March 6, 2020
One evening in 1971, Norm Eckinger Sr. was at the dinner table with his wife and five young children. The oldest, Norm Jr., was all of 10 years old and distinctly remembers his father telling…
M. Conley Entrepreneur of the Year Award Nominees February 19, 2020
The summer of 1975 was hot. Ernie Schott had moved to Canton and bought his first house just off Fulton, on 16th Street in 1971. On steamy summer nights he and wife Patti walked their…
M. Conley Entrepreneur of the Year Award Nominees February 4, 2020
On a summer afternoon in 1975, Mark Kratzer and fellow employees of The Barn sat in the United Bank drive-through lane and held their paychecks up for the teller to see. She gave the thumbs-down…
M. Conley Entrepreneur of the Year Award Nominees January 8, 2020
In 1905 Henry Belden was facing disaster … again. Debts at his Canton Pressed Brick Company threatened everything he owned. For the fifth or sixth time Belden was flat on his back, looking for a…
M. Conley Entrepreneur of the Year Award Nominees October 24, 2019
It had been a frustrating day for Mike Abbott as he spent hours searching fruitlessly for some critical pipes in the former Mercy School of Nursing. Finally he called his father Jim who remembered installing…
M. Conley Entrepreneur of the Year Award Nominees September 18, 2019
In 1900, a german-speaking Canton grinding foreman named Tom Grabowsky died of black lung disease. His son was only 10 years old and didn’t know what big things were in store for him. 60 years…
M. Conley Entrepreneur of the Year Award Nominees August 8, 2019
Writers great and not-so-great have written odes to spring as the season of renewal. The Spring family of Canton has taken them at their word. Today, almost a century after their great-grandfather started installing basic…
M. Conley Entrepreneur of the Year Award Nominees July 1, 2019
High above the New York City streets, a young man sat in a conference room at one of the worlds largest public utilities. His starched white shirt and sedate tie blended perfectly with the other…
M. Conley Entrepreneur of the Year Award Nominees May 30, 2019
When Abner Yoder opened a builder’s trade magazine in 1963 and saw a small advertisement for Gain Nail truss-building machines, the lives of millions of Christians worldwide, thousands of local residents and builders throughout northeast…