Chris Baynum News Today

A Newport company is back at Kings Island painting the famed Eiffel Tower replica for the third time in just over three decades.

3:24 Chris Baynum and his Newport roller coaster painting business were set to have a record year in 2020, doing projects all over the world. But then COVID hit. "It seems like everybody just pulled the plug at the same time," he says. "So, we were trying to figure out what to do with our guys. On one big project we were literally two days from finishing it and that project stopped." Baynum broke even last year but had to be creative, allowing parks to defer payment as his staff continued to do...