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 [...]