By Jake Ellinghuysen [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The annual downtown Award Banquet honored Eau Claire Businesses and Downtown Eau Claire, the official organization, wanted to show their respect towards all of those who have helped and supported them in 2012. Downtown Incorporated also wanted to show their support for all of the [...]

By Robert Twing When manager Dave Donnelly selects  beers that will be on tap at Mogie’s Pub & Restaurant, he will most likely choose local or regional micro brewed beers. That, he said, is because light beers are becoming less popular — a trend that has been growing in the United States since the ‘80s, [...]

By Debora Biasutti At the end of the summer of 2010, Drake Bruder and Ben Skiba,  freshmen at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, were trying to find something to do after all of their friends had already left for college. That’s when they saw an opportunity to mix business with their passion. Bruder and Skiba [...]

Aaron Brice (left) and Tim Brunner (right) display one of their printed banners at their screen printing shop in Eau Claire. © 2012 Amanda Tyler By Amanda Tyler Starting a small business isn’t something that most people in their early 20s would jump into. For Aaron Brice and Tim Brunner, however, it seemed like the [...]

Profile of local entreprenuer Erin Madden of Queen’s Dry Cleaning and Laundromat.

Eau Claire Floral owner Genny Hay offers up what makes her small business run.

Orvetta Mae’s Antiques and Original Creations’ owner Wendy Howell collects stories just as much as she collects antiques.

Altoona resident, Tim Gunderson, believes there is more to healthy living than modern medicine.