What you’ll love: It is an Amish-made cedar chest handcrafted to ensure durability and authenticity. It has an anti-slam lid and a lock for privacy and protection.

Nora Lenehan, center, gave cedar hope chests to both of her daughters, Sherry Pittman, left, and Dawn Montgomery, when they graduated from high school.

The new store, in downtown Cedar Springs, offers Amish-made oak, cherry, hickory and maple furniture as well as decorating accessories and gifts.

In a Facebook post published by Teresa Simmons Dummons, some Amish residents from Southern Iowa traveled to Cedar Rapids on Saturday to help locals with clean-up.

CEDAR SPRINGS -- While some people think it might not be a good idea to open a business during a recession, Bob and Betty Truesdale believe they can make a go of it -- for a third time. The ...