Business Notes

Canton-based Wern Rausche Locke has been chosen as the agency of record for Salem-based Lehmann Mills Inc. and its sister company, LM Equipment. Lehmann Mills is best known for the manufacture of dispersion mills and precision rolls for the ink, chocolate, soap, coffee and chemical and coatings industries.

Stark State College of Technology has entered a partnership with I/Tech Services, a Microsoft Certified Technical Education Center based in Maryland.

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Gov. Bob Taft has appointed Bill J. Bowling, executive vice president, COO and president-steel, of The Timken Co., to the Ohio Steel Council, a public-private partnership of education, government and industry leaders.

Jeff S. Yearly has been named vice president of corporate banking at KeyBank in Canton.

Canton-based Innis Maggiore Group has hired Andrew Collington as programmer and Erica Cook as interactive account executive.

Cindy Riley has joined Castle Mortgage Corp. as the North Canton branch manager.

Canton-based ad agency Crowl Montgomery Clark has added Nicole Russell and Lee Ann DeMeo as art directors and Tracy Teuscher as account coordinator.

Innis Maggiore Group, Canton, has hired Patty Finefrock as traffic manager.

Wern Rausche Locke Advertising Inc., Canton, has promoted Tim Hertel to director of Internet operations. Hertel was formerly an art director for the ad agency.

John Bogniard, the managing partner of Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., a Canton law firm, was elected chairman of the board of trustees for the Ohio Automobile Club.

United National Bank & Trust Co., Canton, has named two new officers, Richard Esber Jr. and Rebecca J. Kintz.

Stark State College of Technology has hired Bruce Darling as the department head of accounting and finance technology, and Dennis Trenger as the department head of computer applications.

Randall D. Stuckley has been hired as the chief financial officer of Doctors Hospital of Stark County.

William J. Whitley has been named southeast regional manager for Peoples Services Inc. of Canton.