The story of ZDS Design/Consulting Services begins in 1914 when Walentin Zachwieja arrived at Ellis Island and migrated to West Virginia to find work in the coalfields. His son, Ted T. Zachwieja, would be the first in their family to graduate college, becoming a mechanical engineer in 1958 and starting the family business. By the early 1980s, Ted A. Zachwieja II would graduate as a mechanical...
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In 2018, Italian company, TeMa Technologies & Materials, began construction on a 42,000-square-foot facility in the small community of Kearneysville, WV. This facility would manufacture the same construction materials as the mother company, using recycled plastics, for distribution in the North American market. Dubbed TeMa North America, the location was a perfect fit given that 60% of the US...
The pastor of Crossroads Church was watching a movie with his daughter when it suddenly occurred to him, a movie theater would make an excellent church. There were plenty of rooms, large and small, that could facilitate services and classes. And the layout was perfect for the flow of people.
So in 2019, when the Regal Cinema in Martinsburg went out of business, the Church purchased the property...
Jennifer Miller likes people and more than that, she likes to see people healthy and happy. So, when Maryland legalized medical cannabis, she began researching how she could bring it to her community and help those suffering from things like chronic pain, glaucoma and PTSD. In time, this led her to open Sweet Buds Dispensary in Frederick, MD.
By November 2019, Sweet Bud Dispensary was putting...
In the mid-nineties, when authorities banned lead from use in hunting migratory birds, a group of sportsmen joined together to form Kent Cartridge. They believed they could develop a new line of high-quality, non-toxic hunting loads. Purchasing a small factory that was going out of business in Kearneysville, WV, they acted upon their vision and became one of the biggest names in the shotgun...