• Landscaping

    Business owner and former Cortlandt official are accused of fraud

    A previous town of Cortlandt employee and the owner of a landscaping organization have been arrested Thursday and indicted on general public corruption and fraud fees in relationship with an unlawful dumping plan on a town-owned lot. Robert Dyckman, 51 of Verplanck, a previous assistant basic foreman with the town of Cortlandt, and Glenn Griffin, 53, of Cortlandt Manor, the proprietor, president and principal of Griffin’s Landscaping Company, have been arrested and indicted, in accordance to Damian Williams, the U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of New York. Griffin also was indicted in relationship with a independent bid-rigging plan in the village of Croton-on-Hudson and the hamlet of Verplanck. The…

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  • Art Home Design

    Interior design student helps plant shop owner grow new business | WMU News

    Contact: Erin FlynnJune 10, 2022 Matt Collins, an interior design student from Mendon, Michigan, was lead designer for the new MJ Home store in downtown Kalamazoo. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A new business has sprouted up in downtown Kalamazoo, and a Western Michigan University student helped to cultivate its aesthetic. “We want people to come in and feel peaceful and take a moment to breathe and relax, and to just really… feel warm and cozy,” says Dianna Nance, owner of the new boutique home store MJ Home—sister store to Mason Jar Plant Shop. She tapped Matt Collins, a first-year interior design student, to help her make that vision a reality. The seeds of…

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  • Landscaping

    Houston ISD’s former COO Brian Busby and landscaping business owner Anthony Hutchison indicted

    HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston ISD’s former chief working officer and a landscaping company operator who contracted with the district have been federally indicted on public corruption rates as component of an alleged kickback that totaled about $6 million about a seven-calendar year span. The FBI’s Houston business office introduced the arrests Thursday of Brian Busby, the former district govt, and Anthony Hutchison, who feds determined as an HISD agreement seller. Both gentlemen built their initially appearances in advance of a U.S. magistrate choose Thursday afternoon, and they have been unveiled from custody, with Eyewitness Information cameras capturing them strolling out from the courthouse in the early evening. As aspect…

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