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HBP Inc., a Hagerstown printing and communications company, is buying a Falls Church, Va., company that will roughly double HBP's size and bring about 20 new jobs to Hagerstown, HBP President John W. Snyder said Wednesday. HBP finalized a letter of intent last week to buy Balmar Inc., a graphic communications company with offices in Falls Church, Va., and Gaithersburg, Md., Snyder said. Officials hope to close the transaction early next week, he said. Balmar will be a wholly owned subsidiary of HBP, according to a statement on the HBP website.

A Berkeley County man is accused of stealing about 1,500 pounds of copper from the Quad/Graphics printing plant, which is near his Martinsburg area home, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court records. Peter Alan Mynhier Jr., of 483 Gantt Drive, was arraigned one count of grand larceny Thursday evening by Magistrate Jim Humphrey, according to court documents. Mynhier, 30, along with two other defendants, Jessica Marie Ryan, 25, of 946 Tomahawk Run Road, Hedgesville, W.Va., and Patrick Nelson Drury Jr., 39, of 424 Oak Hill Road, Berkeley Springs, W.Va., also were arraigned by Humphrey on charges of distribution of heroin and conspiracy in a separate case, according to court documents.

PEWAUKEE, Wis. -  Quad/Graphics has signed a letter of intent for a joint venture with the printing arm of Proszynski i S-ka, a printer/publisher based in Warsaw and Pila, Poland. Upon completion of the proposed venture, Quad/Graphics will install two eight-unit, web-offset presses, which, when added to Proszynski's eight presses, will create the largest printer in Central Europe. A key benefit to the expansion is the establishment of a European production and marketing base accessible to Quad/Graphics' clients.

Quad/Graphics to add 200 jobs By DON AINES Staff Writer, Martinsburg MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Quad/Graphics will be adding another 200 or more jobs to its Cumbo Yards Industrial Park facility with an $11 million East Coast distribution center, according to company officials. Site work on the Quad/Graphics Parcel Direct center could begin in mid-January, according to plant manager Mike Popp. He said the 332,640-square-foot building is scheduled for completion in August 1998 and will initially employ 125 to 175 people.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Quad/Graphics opened a 387,000-square-foot mail-order fufillment facility here Friday, making the plant's capital investment to date one of the biggest in the state in a decade, according to Gov. Cecil Underwood. "Savor the moment, because these things don't happen every day," plant manager Mike Popp told dignitaries, clients and employees during an inauguration of the plant. The Pewaukee, Wis.-based plant currently prints catalogs and newspaper inserts for companies like Victoria's Secret, Norm Thompson Outfitters, Free Port Studios and Kmart.

andrews@herald-mail.com Memorial window stickers have turned cars and trucks into moving tributes. Chad Ely, the owner of C-Ely Signs and Graphics in Waynesboro, Pa., said he thinks the trend took off two years ago following the death of NASCAR icon Dale Earnhardt. Numerous auto racing fans put memorial stickers in the back windows of their vehicles to mourn Earnhardt. Then, the practice evolved. Ely said people began asking for stickers to remember relatives or friends, too. Ely, whose shops creates graphics and lettering for vehicles, said he gets at least one request each month for memorial stickers.

Engagement announcements for 9/23 Stumbaugh-Coy John "Fred" and Ann Stumbaugh of Chambersburg, Pa., announce the engagement of their daughter, Heather Michelle Stumbaugh, to Bradley "Scott" Coy of Trenton, N.J., son of Jack and Sally Coy of Shippensburg, Pa. Ms. Stumbaugh is a 1994 graduate of Chambersburg Area Senior High School and a 1998 graduate of Shippensburg University, with a bachelor's degree in social work. She is director of social services/admissions at Julia Manor Health Care Center in Hagerstown.

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. -- Businesses are increasingly realizing there is more to their existence than making money. They are blending volunteer work into their operations, understanding that it is good to be seen by the public as community-minded, according to a statewide organization pushing more volunteer work. Not only is it good for the image, but when every part of a community thrives, such as government, private and nonprofit sectors, it becomes a better place to work, live and do business, according to the West Virginia Business Volunteer Council.

andrews@herald-mail.com Quad/Graphics President Harry V. Quadracci, whose worldwide printing company employs more than 1,000 people in Berkeley County, W.Va., was found dead in a lake near his Wisconsin home Monday, authorities said. Quadracci's body was discovered in 4 1/2 feet of water in Pine Lake Monday afternoon, almost three hours after his family reported him missing, according to the Chenequa (Wis.) Police Department. According to the Associated Press, the police chief said Quadracci was wearing swimming trunks.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Quad/Graphics has submitted a plan to the Berkeley County Planning Commission for a major expansion of its plant in the Cumbo Yard Industrial Park. According to the plan, Phase 2 of the plant would include 284,000 square feet of ground-level space on the south corner with an additional 31,300 square feet of mezzanine space. On the north corner, there would be another 60,000 square feet of ground-level space added. Earlier this year the Pewaukee, Wis., printing company opened the $64 million, 480,550-square-foot plant in the industrial park off W.Va.

Hagerstown Community College is partnering with AIGA (American Institute of Graphics Artists) Blue Ridge to hold a graphic design contest called "stylUS. " "StylUS" is a poster contest where participants design an original piece of artwork based on a specific theme. This year's theme is "poetic pixels. " Designers choose lines from a song or poem of their choice and create a design based off that. The goal is to show the delicate balance between music and poetry and the visual arts in a beautiful and creative way. This contest is open to any designer in the Tri-State area including HCC students, staff, and faculty.

A Berkeley County man is accused of stealing about 1,500 pounds of copper from the Quad/Graphics printing plant, which is near his Martinsburg area home, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court records. Peter Alan Mynhier Jr., of 483 Gantt Drive, was arraigned one count of grand larceny Thursday evening by Magistrate Jim Humphrey, according to court documents. Mynhier, 30, along with two other defendants, Jessica Marie Ryan, 25, of 946 Tomahawk Run Road, Hedgesville, W.Va., and Patrick Nelson Drury Jr., 39, of 424 Oak Hill Road, Berkeley Springs, W.Va., also were arraigned by Humphrey on charges of distribution of heroin and conspiracy in a separate case, according to court documents.

Andrew Cross, a first-grader at Emma K. Doub School for Integrated Arts and Technology, was recently awarded first place in the Graphic Arts K-2 category of the Maryland Society for Educational Technology's student contests. His artwork was a pattern using the program Pixie 2 and was created in media class, taught by Christine Hurley. During the project, he discovered a rule of divisibility.  Andrew's first-grade teacher is Anne Milton. Andrew will be invited to the conference in Baltimore to receive a certificate and prize.

Quad Graphics, an international printing company, plans to hire more than 20 workers to fill a variety of positions at two of its facilities in Martinsburg, W.Va., a corporate spokeswoman said. Applications for some of those jobs will be accepted from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday at the Washington County One-Stop Job Center at 14 N. Potomac St. in Hagerstown. Claire Ho, director of corporate communications at Quad Graphics in Wisconsin, said in an email that the magazine and catalog manufacturing facility on Caperton Boulevard wants to fill nearly 20 part-time and full-time positions, including an arrival and destination clerk, finishing equipment operators and entry-level finishing technicians.

The email came into the office and included the following words: "WARNING: The raw video is posted and includes GRAPHIC LANGUAGE. (Understandable considering the circumstances!)" Now, this is not the kind of email we receive every day at The Herald-Mail, so our collective curiosity was piqued, to say the least. The email was sent from the director of digital media at WDBJ, a television station in Roanoke, Va., owned by Schurz Communications, the parent company of The Herald-Mail.

The Maryland State Highway Administration removed a school bus safety graphic from its website Thursday morning after The Herald-Mail questioned the accuracy of the graphic. The graphic was part of the agency’s Web page titled “Kids, the School Bus and You.” It featured five images showing different traffic scenarios and indicating when other vehicles should stop for a school bus. The image removed from the website showed a bus stopped on a five-lane road with a center turning lane — like the newly widened Maugans Avenue — but the graphic incorrectly indicated that only traffic going the same direction as the bus was required to stop.

HBP Inc., a Hagerstown printing and communications company, is buying a Falls Church, Va., company that will roughly double HBP's size and bring about 20 new jobs to Hagerstown, HBP President John W. Snyder said Wednesday. HBP finalized a letter of intent last week to buy Balmar Inc., a graphic communications company with offices in Falls Church, Va., and Gaithersburg, Md., Snyder said. Officials hope to close the transaction early next week, he said. Balmar will be a wholly owned subsidiary of HBP, according to a statement on the HBP website.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- A press fire early Friday at Quad/Graphics near Martinsburg forced employees to evacuate the plant, fire and company officials said. No one was injured, and the fire was contained to the press and extinguished by the building's water and carbon dioxide suppression systems, company spokeswoman Claire Ho said. The cause of the fire, which happened shortly before 1 a.m., remains under investigation, Ho said. Printing operations had resumed Friday, and deadlines for customers continued to be met as the cleanup of water, smoke and soot was ongoing, Ho said.

WAYNESBORO, Pa. -- The Save A Life Tour stopped at Waynesboro Area Senior High School on Friday morning, bringing with it a graphic and frank message about the dangers of driving under the influence. Presenter Jeremiah Newson asked students to remember his story before starting the car if they've been drinking. He talked about his father being paralyzed in a DUI accident, then said he personally rolled a car on top of a friend on his prom night. "I swear to you, if I could take that back, I would," Newson said.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- Quad/Graphics, one of Berkeley County's largest private employers, will eliminate 35 full-time jobs this week at its Martinsburg-area plant as part of a plan to reduce production capacity, a company spokesperson said Monday. The layoffs are blamed on softened demand in the printing business. The affected employees are among 550 to be laid off at company operations in five states. A total of 400 jobs are being eliminated at plants in Wisconsin, where the nation's third-largest privately held printer is headquartered in Sussex, spokesperson Claire Ho said Monday.