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Blue Harbor Resort & Spa, located on the lakefront in Sheboygan, on Tuesday opened a new indoor glow-in-the-dark miniature golf course called The Lost Temples, located above the resort's 43,000-square-foot Breaker Bay Waterpark.

BizTimes Media has launched an awards program to call attention to the region’s top corporate citizens and most effective nonprofit organizations.

Jeff Anthony will lead the Energy Innovation Center as both director and a member of the Mid-West Energy Research Consortium’s business development division, M-WERC announced on Tuesday.

The first 10 stations for the Milwaukee bike-share program, to be called Bublr Bikes, were announced on Wednesday.

Author and public speaker Susan Marshall, who writes a periodic column about leadership for BizTimes, is set to launch her third book early this month.

As regional administrator for the Great Lakes Region for the U.S. Small Business Administration, I am proud to announce our federal government met its small business federal contracting goal for the first time in eight years, thanks to the SBA and President Obama's commitment to increasing small business contracting opportunities. In Fiscal Year 2013, our government awarded 23.39 percent in federal contracts to small businesses which is $83.1 billion of eligible contracting dollars according to SBA's Small Business Procurement Scorecard.

Racine-based Johnson Financial Group has appointed Kevin Tan as chief investment officer.

Colliersville, Tenn.-based Helena Chemical Company recently acquired Millard Feed Mill in Walworth County for $3.4 million, according to state records.

Oak Creek-based Master Lock Co. LLC has acquired Sentry Safe, a personal safe and protective security container manufacturer, for $117.5 million.

Wauwatosa-based Waterstone Financial Inc. reported second quarter net income of $3.8 million, or 11 cents per share, down from $4.9 million, or 14 cents per share, in the second quarter of 2013.