MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2008 _ Smithville, Indiana‟s largest privately owned telecommunications company, has made a $250,000 capital contribution to Indiana University Women‟s Basketball. The gift was made in support of the IU athletics campaign, For the Glory of Old IU: The Campaign for IU Athletics, to enhance student-athlete welfare at the university. [Read More...]

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2008 _ Now in its eleventh year, TechPoint’s Tech Summit has undergone some major changes to address specific needs of business professionals and the Indiana economy. [Read More...]

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2008 _ Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman will join Greene County officials to help celebrate the groundbreaking of MLE Enterprises' new facility at the WestGate at Crane Technology Park on Thursday. The ceremony will be at 10 a.m. MLE Enterprises, Inc., based in Terre Haute and Bloomfield, will construct a 7,000 square feet office/production facility in the Greene County part of the tech park near Crane Village. [Read More...]

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2008 _ Indianapolis-based MEK Group, a strategic marketing and public relations firm, today announced the addition of Tim Meyers to head the company’s growing creative and interactive media services division as creative director.
[Read More...]

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 _ NAVMAR Applied Sciences Corporation will join the growing list of technology and engineering firms in the WestGate @ Crane Technology Park later this year, according to Dale Ankrom, managing partner of the WestGate @ Crane Development Co., LLC. NAVMAR, a Pennsylvania-based national defense contractor, will enter the Indiana market with 15 new engineering jobs in November. [Read More...]

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2008 _ The phrase “fast money” now has a whole new meaning. Smithville Digital, an affiliate of Smithville Telephone, Indiana’s largest privately held telecommunications company, today announced the expansion of its rural high speed fiber-optic network into Hamilton, Monroe, Lawrence, and Hendricks counties. Indiana-based Monroe bank will act as anchor tenant for this new all-fiber build-out that will bring high speed connectivity to nine of its locations in four counties. [Read More...]

THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 2008 _ Indiana University students living in the Campus Walk Apartments will now be able to utilize online social networking, download movies and music, post blogs, podcasts and wikis without the network delay that is common with largely populated college residences.[Read More...]

MONDAY, JULY 7, 2008 _ Nearly three-quarters of orthopedics patients in Shelby County have gone to an Indianapolis hospital to receive care. Now, Major Hospital in Shelbyville wants to keep more of those patients at home. By next June, the hospital will build a $7 million orthopedics center that will house two orthopedic surgeons. They will begin building their practices in Shelbyville next month.
[Read More...]

FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2008 _ Passing motorists who have viewed the white shrouded sign in front of Major Hospital have posed plenty of questions about what is happening at the hospital. During a short ceremony in the rain on Thursday, hospital, city and county officials gathered in the parking lot to unveil a new sign that says "Major Hospital MHP, a Major Health Partner." The name is part of the hospital's push to re-brand itself as "more than a hospital" by emphasizing its partnerships with other health-care businesses in the community and reminding everyone who sees the sign that the hospital is only one of the services provided by MHP.
[Read More...]

THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2008 _ "Successful 21st century healthcare delivery requires a broad spectrum of services that includes doctors from top-ranked medical schools, the strategic use of technology and specialty practice groups that concentrate skilled medical resources on specific needs," said Tony Lennen, president and CEO of Major Hospital. "Our medical operations in Shelbyville have achieved that critical standard, so to better reflect what we've collectively accomplished, we will now present our services under the brand of Major Health Partners." [Read More...]