Trail Town Program

Passing the baton to the next owner PART SIX Our entrepreneurial summer series has taken us to B&Bs, distilleries, trails, docks, restaurants, climbing gyms and ice cream shops.... If you're pumped to take on your own business, then we're thrilled. If, on the other hand, we've got you pondering retirement, we get that, too. Either way, our sixth and final episode has exactly what you're looking for.

When one location just isn't enough, growth brings opportunity and threats. PART FIVE We're at that point in our entrepreneurial summer when the days are so long and bright that you'd almost think they'll never end. When a small business owner finds that the line of customers just doesn't end, it may be time to open a second location. In week five of our series, we'll find out that doubling down can pay off big but the days are long, and not always in a perfect way.

Another hungry boss just walked in PART FOUR If you joined our entrepreneurial summer series during week three (we hit the rafts, bikes, canoes, kayaks), you may still be hungry. This week, we'll share a booth with some of the most innovative restaurateurs in the region, where they'll try to read the minds of the dining public an exercise which might go better with a nice Moscato.

Re-emerging returnable beer bottles If you liked our email about the local craft beverage scene, you might be interested in Straub Brewery's environmentally friendly packaging.

It crawled from the Yough PART THREE Whether you joined our entrepreneurial summer series at a bed & breakfast (week one) or a distillery (week two), you know that change is a constant in small business. As a result, adaptation is a key phase in the entrepreneurial life cycle. Nowhere is that more true than along the trails and rivers, where consumer tastes shift almost as surely as weather changes.

Spirited rebels speak proof to power PART TWO Our entrepreneurial summer series dawned last week with stories of the inspired women who run bed & breakfasts and vacation rentals along our region's trails.... Successful businesses usually have great stories of innovation or tradition, local roots or international reach. In the second of six episodes, we'll get a taste of the craft beverage market, where the story has to have as much kick as the product.