ROBBINSVILLE: Restructuring includes new Tozzi title, salary hike (The Messenger-Press)
ROBBINSVILLE A personnel restructuring in the township has created the new position of assistant business administrator four months after the mayor consolidated the business administrator and township engineer posts in order to save money.

East Knoxville auto parts facility closing, says 57 jobs lost (Knoxville News Sentinel)
Transmission Technologies Corp., which operates an auto parts plant in East Knoxville, has informed Knox County officials that it will close a Forks of the River Industrial Park facility in a move that will cost 57 jobs.Rhonda Rice, executive vice pr

Diesel refinery planned (Altona Red River Valley Echo)
A $1.4 million waste oil-recycling refinery will be built in the R.M. of Montcalm, and will be producing about 1.2 million litres of low sulphur diesel fuel annually, beginning next June.

Two top general engineering contractors to combine operations
SANTA ROSA and PETALUMA -- Ghilotti Construction Co. and North Bay Construction, two of the largest locally based general engineering contractors, today said they will combine operations over the next 18 months. North Bay Construction founder and Chi

December job losses dim optimism on recovery (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
By PETER S. GOODMAN The New York Times As America absorbed word that 85,000 jobs disappeared from the economy in December, hopes for a vigorous recovery ran headlong into the prospect that paychecks could remain painfully scarce into next year.