Ellsworth, Maine, replaced free EV chargers that cost $7,000 a year with eight paid ports, placed to send Acadia visitors ...

Dustin Moffitt joined Barilla’s pasta plant in Ames, Iowa, as a production operator in 2002. The Iowa native then worked his way through jobs as a processing technologist, mill manager, and production ...

Daniel Rotto was there when the first two cabs belonging to Hometown Taxi rolled onto the streets of Decorah, Iowa, in October 1987. Both were 1979 Honda CVCCs, and Rotto was one of the founding ...

Mike Healy first saw Skagway, Alaska, in 1999, when he and a friend dropped their East Coast road-trip plans at the last minute to visit a friend there. “Though we were only in Skagway for a couple of ...

The ribbons came before the revenue. Zittergruen lists multiple Grand and Reserve Champion dahlias, a Grand Champion Gladiolus, a Grand Champion Zinnia, three Grand Champion Showmanship titles, a ...

Wayne Greier farms in Green Township, Ohio, about 15 miles west of the Pennsylvania border, and he is the sixth generation of his family to work that ground. His late father’s ashes are spread across ...

Spencer Hilbert paid $8,500 for a 1966 John Deere 4020, hooked it to an $800 disc he found five miles down the road, and drove the pair back to a 50-acre parcel in central Iowa he had bought at ...

Every landfill makes methane. In 2021, John Klostermann, Dubuque’s now-retired public works director, explained the conventional way to deal with it: “One way to control it is to flare it off.” ...

Bob and Carmen Garver faced a problem familiar to many Maine business owners. As they prepared to move their coffee company into a larger building, they wanted to install solar panels, but they were ...

Keith Clark worked at John Deere Dubuque Works, the heavy equipment plant north of town, before he started building clamps in his own garage around 1974. Roughly two decades later, he moved production ...

The problem ACES Delta was built to solve is a practical one. Renewable energy is becoming cheaper and more plentiful, but it cannot always be produced when demand is highest. Wind and solar produce ...

What ties the mills together is a philosophy of using the whole tree. Chips and sawdust from the sawmills become raw material at other mills, shavings are kiln-dried and repurposed as animal bedding, ...