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

“It’s the table where you serve Thanksgiving dinner, and the couch where you open Christmas gifts,” Jason Merschman said in a profile published by the City of Urbandale. Merschman is assistant vice ...

“You have to be crazy to brew at the end of the road,” Mossanen told the Anchorage Daily News in 2015. With the Spur Road ending in Talkeetna, outside repair help is far away, and because the brewery ...

One month after Elijah Jackson was sworn in as mayor of Ouzinkie, the lights went out. It was November 2019, and the small hydroelectric plant that had powered this village on Spruce Island since the ...

Cult+King packages its products in glass, aluminum, bamboo, and wood, which the company says is “made to last a lifetime,” and while plastic may have its place, “that place is not CULT+KING.” The ...

In the off-season, Matt Weber works as a lobsterman. From April to November, he and his wife, Mary, brew beer with her father, Danny McGovern, at Monhegan Brewing Company, which claims to be Maine’s ...

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 ...