Business changes

Another Chance Vintage Emporium is the latest business to rent the quarters at the back end of the Horton Building. It contains a mix of antiques, decorative items, and other odds and ends. For more pictures and more information, check out their Facebook page.

 Moving from the front of the Horton building to a site two blocks to the east is Balloons Galore and More. They are still in the process of moving and expect to open in early February.

 Also moving is Endless Treasure. They are moving to the old Max Prouty car dealer building north of Smith' Farm Store.

 The building is less of a maze than their old building, but like the old one, it has several rooms rather than the large display area that one expects in a building designed for retail. When I visited this week, the move was still in process and there was a lot of sorting and arranging that still needed to be done. Those empty shelves in the picture below will be full in a few weeks.

 I liked a display of green dishes. But not enough to want to buy it.

There will be a new store of home decor in the corner of the old Long's Building, across from R&M. The sign in the window says that Country Bumpkin will open in February. (It is next door to the Honey Comb salon, which replace the wonderfully named A Head of Style (or was it Ahead of Style?).

 A few hundred feet to the south of the new location of Endless Treasure, Superior Sales and Service is fitting into their new building. It still sells lawnmowers, shoes and bikes.

 There are areas of the store that are not put together yet, like this area of bike tires and supplies.

They are next door to Superior Auto Sales. I wonder if the similarity of names will cause any confusion.

The old Dodge dealership is looking for another tenant or a new owner.

 On Friday I noticed a new sign for the White Castle bakery.

 And because I like to take pictures of train stuff, here are a few of the derailment cleanup. First the "claw, which this past week turned two tank cars to a pile of scrap metal.

 On Thursday a truck was being filled with the wheel undercarriages.

 There were no workers on site when I passed by on Friday. Below is what remained of two tank cars.

 Something is missing in this picture--the wheels that you can see in a picture from the end of December. At least some of the wheels were still on the lot, but as a previous picture showed, most of the undercarriages had left Rensselaer.

 The south spur is still not fixed, but a lot of work was done this week.

Southern Jasper County has a new state senator, Brian Buchanan from Boone County. He was elected by the caucus after two hours and five rounds of voting. More here and here.