Independents Week: 4Corners Riversports General Manager of 4Coners Riversports, Ashleigh Diaz Ashleigh Diaz Tell us a little bit about 4Corners Riversports and why you're independent? 4Corners Riversports was started by Milt Wiley and his daughter Nancy in 1983. They had a passion for boating in the southwest and [...]
Wagon Wheel Liquors Owners of Wagon Wheel Liquors Bonnie and Mike Bonnie and Mike What’s your story and why have you chosen to be an independent business? (Bonnie)I think we’ve always been local people. We owned convenience stores when we lived in Florida and we felt like we were part [...]
Independent Business: Basin Printing and Imaging Owner of Basin Imagine and Printing, Diana Hammond Diana: Tell us a little bit about Basin Printing and Imaging. It was started in 1957 but our family bought it in October 1990. My husband’s parents, ourselves, and a third couple that later on left [...]
The first time I met the owner of a local independent business, I was totally starstruck. It was a downtown coffee shop and I happened to be caught in the middle of a conversation between him and the barista. I don’t even think I was able to look him in the eye when he [...]
From Alissa Wolf, Executive Director of iAM Music. Local First and iAM Music are working in partnership on the Cultivate Campaign. Christiana, age 11 (quoted above), is one of several talented and dedicated students at iAM MUSIC who is receiving a scholarship to further her studies in music and pursue her passion! As a [...]
Durango's Creative Comic Allie and the Creative Arts team painting. Photo by Jennaye Derge. Allie Wolfe is a well-known performer in Durango's stand-up comedy scene. Allie Wolfe is a person who cannot be described in one word. She is a woman of many different [...]
The Adventurous Artist Sarah Sturm and Allie Wolfe painting. Photo by Jennaye Derge Sarah Sturm and Hayley Kirkman helping install the Durango Joe's mural. Sarah Zoey Sturm grew up in Albuquerque, NM. Her mother, Margie, is a potter/jeweler, and her father is a lover of biking. She [...]
Doodlin' Durangoan Sketch of the Durango Joes Mural on College Ave. Dakotah painting on the side of the Every Day gas station in April 2017. Dakotah Andreatta is truly the embodiment of "local" - having grown up in Durango, he knows the ins and outs of our [...]
Who: Local artists Hayley Kirkman, Sarah Sturm, Allie Wolfe, and Dakotah Andreatta. What: Local is the Way! mural on the side of Durango Joe's When: This project started in August 2017 How: We had originally planned to work with another local business to paint directly on their wall, but they receded their offer mid-way through planning. Thus, we [...]
Reprinted from the Denver Post See a show at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in 2015? Purchase a painting at a local art fair? How about buy a book from a Colorado author or visit a local museum? If you answered yes to any of these questions you contributed to the $13.7 billion arts [...]
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