Business Features2024-07-12T12:08:35-04:00

THIS MONTH’S FEATURED ENTREPRENEUR ARTICLE

A Building Not Set in Stone

The past few years have proved to be a time like no other for everyone around the globe – and businesses were effected in every which way, too. There were many businesses that struggled due to Covid, while others flourished. This can be said on a global scale and certainly at a local scale, as we all saw and felt in our area. But with […]

By |April 29th, 2022|Monthly Entrepreneur|

A Lifestyle Fusion

The concept of what “home” means to people might be the most broadly defined word in modern language. Mostly because the idea of a home is so intrinsically tied to other core human values – family, personality, even morality. For interior designer Abigail Horace, owner of Casa Marcelo, throw in a bit of chaos and uncertainty in with those fundamental notions of family and individuality […]

By |March 30th, 2022|Monthly Entrepreneur|

Bird Man – Thomas JV Cullen IV of TC Management and Falcon Excursions, Goshen, NY

You and your father are nationally known as falconry experts. How do you describe your unusual business?

Simply put, our business is birds of prey. Our activities center around breeding falcons, owls, hawks, and eagles primarily for zoos and educators; wild bird control using birds of prey; and, through Falconry Excursions, introducing people to these wild birds – both here in Goshen and at special events. […]

By |February 25th, 2022|Monthly Entrepreneur|

Mountainside Cafe

It’s a modest place, tucked away on Route 7 South in Falls Village, CT. Clean white building, ample parking with overflow across the road, a simple sign and a warm welcome. Mountainside Café is one of those unique places where the community inside the building welcomes and builds the community outside the building. During the seemingly endless repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the café was […]

By |January 28th, 2022|Monthly Entrepreneur|

LEARN ABOUT LOCAL BUSINESSES

Field of Stones: Stephen Fitch of Fitch Landscaping in Falls Village, CT

Several years ago, our mason took us to an open field on Dugway Road between Lime Rock and Amesville piled with reclaimed curbs, New York City sidewalks, and cobblestones to pick out a hearth for our fireplace. There was no sign on the property, and since that time I had wondered about this business of selling old stones. For our environmental issue I tracked […]

By |March 27th, 2025|Business, Monthly Entrepreneur|

Float Mind @mend

Because I am both the first-born son of a preacher and a writer, it was no surprise that I found myself afloat in a body-temperature pool of water on a Sunday morning in January when I might have been in church. That pool, about the size of Thoreau’s Walden Pond cabin, is nested beneath the rough-hewn beams of an old mill that is now the […]

By |March 3rd, 2025|A Healthier Life, Business, Wellness|

Celebrating 90 years in business: An interview with Kristin Ruge Hutchins, President and CEO of Ruge’s Automotive Group

Ruge’s Automotive Group is celebrating its 90th year in business in 2025 – a remarkable accomplishment. I caught up with Kristin Ruge Hutchins, the president and CEO of Ruge’s, to learn more about the business’ backstory, how the brand has grown and changed over the past 90 years, and what exciting things they have coming up in 2025. 

Can you tell me the story […]

By |March 3rd, 2025|Business|

Still brewing: Michael Harney, VP and tea taster at Harney & Sons

It was exactly 12 years ago in February of 2013 that I interviewed John Harney for the first issue of Main Street Magazine. While still working, he died a year later at age 83. His reserved parking spot remains vacant in front of the Harney & Sons tea factory on Route 22 outside of Millerton, New York. John Harney’s office, where I recently sat down […]

By |March 3rd, 2025|Business, Food|
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