A writer and contributing editor for CEG since 2008, Eric Olson has worked in the news-gathering business for 45 years.
Olson grew up in the small town of Lenoir, N.C. in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, where he began covering sports for the local newspaper at age 18. He continued to do that for several other dailies in the area while in college at Appalachian State University. Following his graduation, he worked for, among other companies, the Winston-Salem Journal, where he wrote and edited the newspaper's real estate and special features sections for 10 years. Since 1999 he has worked as a corporate media liaison and freelance writer, in addition to his time at CEG.
He and his wife, Tara, have been happily married for almost 40 years and are the parents of two grown and successful daughters. He currently is in the employ of two dogs and three cats, a job that he dearly loves.
For more than 200 years, the bedrock of American business has been the small entrepreneur, the man or woman who has an idea and through sheer hard work turns that idea into a business that both serves the community and is a financial success....
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TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) The city of Texarkana, Ark., will make a cameo on the Science Channel later this year. A two-man production crew with British production company Wag TV was in town recently filming a segment on making asphalt roads for the show “How Do They Do It?” The team, comprised of director Paul Haines and cameraman Peter Torch, began the morning with a shoot at RK Hall Construction’s asphalt plant....
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When the road department of Madison County, Miss., needed an upgrade to its aging asphalt paver in 2010, it became the first owners in the country of a new, cutting-edge machine that had just rolled off the assembly line....
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Jim and Adam Hills made a pretty gutsy move in 2010. Right in the middle of a slow economy, the two brothers and business partners decided to expand their three-year-old equipment business by opening a second location....
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At the March 2008 ConExpo-Con/AGG trade show in Las Vegas, organizers reported record numbers in terms of both bookings and attendance, despite the fact that the U.S....
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For John Fairley, his job is simple: To make sure that the Statesville, N.C., office of Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers lives up to the parent corporation’s reputation as the top construction equipment auction house in the world....
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The Charleston, S.C., area will soon see the opening of two sparkling new apartment complexes geared exclusively to low-income seniors, age 55 and older. The twin projects were funded and built through the Humanities Foundation, a Charleston-based non-profit that is becoming well known in the South for creating beautiful homes for low-income citizens....
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Residents of Savannah, Ga., will soon be able to rejoice as a massive road project that was first discussed more than 40 years ago, is finally nearing completion....
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Motorists traveling through the Mooresville area of North Carolina to and from Lake Norman have had to deal with a lot of traffic congestion in the last few years as local development activity has dramatically increased....
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Metro Atlanta motorists may face a hassle in the near term, but in the long term, the expansion of the Hammond Drive bridge over Georgia Highway 400 will help alleviate traffic in the busy area north of the city....
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By Eric OlsonCEG CORRESPONDENTThe finishing touches are now being applied to the sparkling new Watauga High School, a project designed to replace a facility opened 45 years ago....
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Gerry Kenny has worked with materials processing equipment almost his entire adult life. A gregarious Irishman, he has worked with screens and conveyors in Europe and Africa and since coming over to America more than 25 years ago, he has operated one of the most successful equipment dealerships in the Southeast....
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The ultimate success of any company is highly dependent on the people who represent the face of that company to the general public. By this criterion, it is easy to see why Carolina CAT is one of the premier equipment dealerships in the Carolinas....
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When a company has been in business for 10 years and has seen growth in most of those years, the reason is due almost entirely to the experience and professionalism of its sales people and the relationships it has built with customers....
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The brutal winter that has affected so many Americans along the East Coast since December also has been responsible for delaying many outdoor construction projects....
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When Carolina CAT decided last year that it needed a dynamic new personality to be the face of its renewed emphasis on customer service, it turned to Brandon J. Hess, a man who has worked in all facets of the construction equipment business during his career....
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After several years of planning and a controversy over where it should be located, the new South Carolina State Farmers Market is heading into its last months of construction before a scheduled April 17, 2010 grand opening....
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Heavy construction equipment is currently working its way across the gently rolling sandhills of central South Carolina as part of a project to expand the recently dedicated Fort Jackson National Cemetery....
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Officials with the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) believe that a large rock slide blocking both directions of Interstate 40 just east of the Tennessee line could take as long as six months to clear....
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Tailgate parties at University of South Carolina (USC) Gamecocks football games should be more enjoyable this fall with the construction of a sparkling new parking area adjacent to the stadium....
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