By DEBRA K. SCHEIMAN-NEILSON Allen County Senior Life Newspaper FORT WAYNE — Kind, caring and compassionate are three adjectives Chuck Surack’s employees use to define him. They aren’t alone. Fort Wayne rejoices in the accomplishments and achievements of this humble human and how they’ve benefitted our great city. “It feels like a personal responsibility really,” …read more.

FORT WAYNE— Sweetwater Sound Inc., based out of Fort Wayne, is planning to add  up to 285 new jobs over the next three years. Sweetwater, founded by Chuck Surack in 1979, is the third-largest music instrument audio retailer in the country. An $8.8 million project that includes expanded facilities in Allen County has construction set …read more.

Sweetwater recently hired 2 new high-level employees to strengthen its management team. Vice President of Finance Greg Clark joins Sweetwater after working the past four years as internal audit director at Symmetry Medical, Inc. based in Warsaw, Indiana. He is a Fort Wayne native who began his career at KPMG in Raleigh, N.C., after graduating …read more.

This past year Google introduced the Explorer Edition of “Google Glass,” a line of hands-free, head-mounted intelligent devices than can be worn as wearable computing eyewear. Longe Optical of Fort Wayne is proud to be the first optical company in the world to unveil digital prescription lenses for Google Glass. Last month, Longe Optical announced …read more.