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Pottery and Pumpkins: Partnering for Prosperity

June 29, 2012 By admin

Pottery and Pumpkins: Partnering for Prosperity “Can’t get more landlocked than Beach, North Dakota,” grins an area resident. That and the name bring a smile to one’s face. Such positive community spirit fuels partnerships and pertinence among Beach’s 1,100 residents. New lines of communication, particularly between youth and older residents, have blossomed through the formation […]

Filed Under: Business Retention and Development, Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Family Entertainment and Activities, North Dakota, Program - community, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Youth, Youth Leadership

Challenges Met and More to Come in Grafton

June 29, 2012 By admin

Challenges Met and More to Come in Grafton Grafton, North Dakota, sits in the far northeast corner of the state, 45 miles south of Canada, 11 miles west of the Minnesota border and in the flood plain of the Red River. The south branch of the Park River flows eastward through this community of about […]

Filed Under: Business Retention and Development, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Mainstreet, North Dakota, Northwest Area Foundation Horizons Project, Program - community, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Rural Business Development, Small Business, Sustainable Regional Economy

Big Sky Business Runs On eBay Energy

June 29, 2012 By admin

Brockway Mercantile Brockway, Montana When most folks buy something off eBay, it arrives through the mail in a box. Not for Brigitte and Doug Dubin – e-Bay connected them with a new home and lifestyle. When they purchased the Brockway Mercantile building off eBay, they traded an urban smog-filled Los Angeles lifestyle for starry skies, […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business Development and Marketing, Business Planning, Business Retention and Development, Community Development and Design, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Internet and High-tech, Internet/Website, Marketing - Ag specific, Montana, Small Business, Starting a Business

Paddling, Pedaling and Publishing Sustainable Entrepreneurship

June 29, 2012 By admin

Pebble Publishing, Katy Trail Bed & Bikefest and Mighty Mo Canoe Rentals Rocheport, Missouri Drawn by the meandering and mighty Missouri River, the 225-mile-long Katy Trail – the longest in the United States – and the quirky and scenic river town of Rocheport, Missouri, located just fifteen minutes outside Columbia, Brett Dufur and his wife […]

Filed Under: Bed & Breakfast, Business - family, Business Retention and Development, Canoeing & Boating, Community Development and Design, Energy and Green Building, Energy Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Hospitality, Missouri, Right Livelihood, Rural Business Development, Small Business, Sustainable Regional Economy, Tourism and Recreation

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