Federal program helps man buy Columbus business

COLUMBUS (AP) — Gene Mohrmann had been looking for the right opportunity to retire for a few years.

He was ready to leave Mohrmann Tool Inc. in the right hands, if he could only find those right hands first.

Then, last March, Joe Eckert came through the door.

The Columbus Telegram reports Eckert walked in wanting to start a machining shop near his hometown of Tilden and just wanted to get a sense of what owning that shop would entail. During that first visit, the conversation quickly turned to owning that particular shop.

“Within about 20 minutes, we started talking about me taking over the pl...