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Main Street recognizes volunteers
The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.Main Street Morgantown highlighted some of last year's accomplishments and award winners Wednesday, at its annual breakfast. The group also inducted members of the new board of directors, including: Tim Ball, Peggy Myers-Smith, Barbara Joseph, Jeff...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Vicodin (drug), Restaurants
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Survey: Businesses prefer regional buy-local campaign
TidewaterBizThe Retail Alliance is moving forward with the development of a buy-local campaign after most of the businesses it surveyed wanted to move forward on the project. Of the 50 businesses surveyed, 74 percent wanted to continue developing a campaign and...Tags: Politics, Sales, Elections, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Business
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Newly hired Hagerstown official to focus on current, future health of downtown
cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comThe struggles of operating a successful business in downtown Hagerstown are not a new theme. Numerous longtime businesses have left City Center over the past few years, either for greener pastures outside the downtown or because they could not survive....Tags: Washington, DC, Economic Policy, Business
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MAWG supports `Shop and Buy Local'
The Meyersdale Area Watch Group (MAWG) commends this community for its active participation on Nov. 23-24 in “Small Business Saturday,” an event organized by the Meyersdale Area Merchants Association. This event coincided with the American...Tags: Science and Technology, Technology, Sales, Small Businesses, American Express Company
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Consumer spending? Way too much
Pretzels, tattoos, and gambling can save the U.S. economy. In "By the Numbers: How Americans Spend Their Money," Lucas Reilly reports that in 2011, Americans spent trillions shopping for all sorts of sine qua nons: $550 million on pretzels, $96 billion on...Tags: Politics, Family, Government, Tattoo Removal, U.S. Congress
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The Crowd: Puttin' on the Ritz for Chapman
The classy Christmas at the Ritz holiday luncheon Saturday benefiting Chapman University attracted a sold-out crowd, raising nearly $190,000. The 26th annual celebration is produced by the Women of Chapman support group, this season chaired by the...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Richard Dreyfuss, Arts, Colleges and Universities, Beau Bridges
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Hinsdale merchants still in the market for holiday shoppers
Spotlights searched the evening sky in Hinsdale, possibly looking for that red-suited man who appeared on time and as expected at the village's annual Christmas Walk, an event that kicks off the holiday season. The spotlights, however, weren't going...
Tags: Holidays, Small Businesses, Religious Festivals, Business
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Coming up dry in search for sense in Sandy aid denial
Trying to make sense of the Obama administration denying federal relief to Maryland for the flooding and other damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, and I'm coming up dry. No one besides maybe Grover Norquist would have beefed had Maryland picked up a few...Tags: Ken Ulman, Ellicott City, Politics, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama
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The joy of reading a true gift
Ana Veciana-SuarezThe other day, President Barack Obama visited a Virginia bookstore to do some Christmas shopping. Accompanied by his daughters and a retinue of Secret Service agents, he bought 15 children's books as gifts for family members. The excursion was...Tags: Barack Obama, The Miami Herald, Holidays, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Epiphany
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On parking tickets, speeding tickets and O'Malley's politics
Nobody asked me but ... if one is urged to support small retailers during the holiday shopping season, one might expect the municipalities in which they are located to take a holiday on parking tickets. Consider what happened to Debbie Bakalich when she...Tags: Executive Branch, Politics, Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, Punishment
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Important Christmas Shipping Deadlines to Remember
Channel 2 NewsCyber Monday sales online were expected to kick off record numbers for holiday gifts being shipped across the country along with Black Friday and Small Business Saturday. The United States Postal Service, Fed-Ex, and UPS said the volume of packages...Tags: Black Friday (shopping), Christmas, Holidays, U.S. Postal Service, Cyber Monday
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Local Stores Profit from Small Business Saturday
Channel 2 NewsThere was nothing small about this weekend’s Small Business Saturday. Sandwiched in between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, U.S consumers shopped small this year spending billions of dollars in keeping their money local. About 500,000 small...Tags: Sales, Holidays, Small Businesses, Cyber Monday, Business
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