S&S Mixed Signs, Inc., opened for business Oct. 3 on Route 17, Hayes.

The business makes and sells all types of signs and banners, plus offers silk-screening and other sign and logo services.

Sherry Elston and Stephanie Insley own the business. Elston said they have purchased a number of specialty printing machines so they can offer many different types of signs and do other jobs as well.

Among the types of signs they make are real estate signs, magnetic signs, and banners advertising open houses, grand openings and other promotions. For t-shirts, they use a heat processing machine, she said.

Elston previously worked at another sign shop in Gloucester for three years. For 17 years, she sold manufactured and modular homes in Delaware.

Elston, who grew up in Delaware, resides at Hayes with her husband, Darrell, a foreman for Rosenbaum Fence Co. in Hampton. They have four grown children.

Although Insley is a newcomer to sign making, she is learning on the job from Elsto...