Virgil Eide News Today

The business team at The Forum wrote about the closing or announced closing of approximately three dozen business locations over the past year, similar to the number of closings documented in 2022.

Virgil Eide is calling it a career, and longtime customers and friends are trooping to the EasTen mall to wish him well. "We had a good run here. ... The time has come to slow down."

The Forum asked readers for suggestions on businesses whose names reflect who owns or owned them. The many responses received sparked an idea: what about a series on businesses that have an eponymous aspect to their nomenclature?