Forbes

Driving Local Customers: Building A Loyal Community In 2025

In 2025, local business owners face a perfect storm: soaring operational costs, from rent to utilities, collide with customers’ shrinking disposable incomes amid persistent inflation. According to a ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Repair. Repurpose. Reduce.: Northwest Arkansas locals build community while reducing fashion waste

During a brief pause in the sweltering summer heat, the wraparound porch at Casa Magnolia in Springdale fills up with people. On the table, a pair of old jeans are neatly folded on top of a stack of ...
Opinion

Building a bigger table for community unity

Now that the memorials are over, the real work of making structural changes to drive policies, economics and social systems to facilitate transformation in economically disadvantaged communities, ...
Valley Advocate

Building a new tradition of shared, platonic love: Locals redefine intimacy through floral workshops, community swaps and the enduring power of showing up

Sixteen years ago, Newton-born actress Amy Poehler’s character, Leslie Knope, the perpetually perky deputy director of the popular NBC mockumentary sitcom, “Parks and Recreation,” took her gal pals ...
WRIC

‘We want to make the community better’: Locals revive abandoned Sussex County school

SUSSEX COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — An empty, deteriorating school building on Mayes Street is being reborn, thanks to two lifelong Sussex County friends who hope to preserve its history and give the ...