Category: Issue 40

How Money Works

“When Business Stops Spending” If you look at the trend of the financial markets they tend to follow a fairly predictable path, in the long run, called business cycles. Business cycles have peaks (their high points) and troughs (their low points) and one business cycle tends to happen every...

Reve Maxeville Handmade Cosmetics

Stephanie Kelley Reve Maxeville is a small local company that was recently founded to produce small batches of hand crafted lotions, soaps, shampoo, bath & body products and cosmetics. Catherine Trudel began to create natural products for herself that would help nurture her sensitive skin, and that would treat...

Lewis Drug Store

Stephanie Kelley Four years ago, Ryan and Jessica Post became just the third owners of Lewis Drug Store. This iconic business in downtown Perth-Andover was opened in May of 1932 by F.A. (Bill) Lewis. He ran the business for the next 53 years, then sold it to Stephen Dee...

Christmas Cheer

Editor’s Note: We got this delightful email from Shelly Snow last week. Shelly, and her partner Peter Bach, are the new Christmas Cheer coordinators.   I was ten or eleven when, after years of questioning and plotting, I cleverly worked out a scheme to count the carrots left in...