August / September 2012

Big business doesn’t happen overnight. Start-ups begin small, take time, and require both time and monetary investments, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to be a successful entrepreneur. The first step is romancing your way out of the grandeur of

Back on her feet, Heather has transformed her life in just a few short months. In May, she finished a two-year prison sentence and has since landed a job, found a home to rent, and is now taking care of

Job: Retiring as owner of Carolyn’s Fashions in Evansville Hometown: Evansville and Henderson, Ky. Her Story: Thirty-six years after opening Carolyn’s Fashions, 76-year-old Carolyn Barnett will retire Aug. 31, closing the door on one of the Tri-State’s iconic shops for

One of my favorite aspects of living in Evansville — which as I grew up on the mean streets of Newburgh, Ind., was “the big city,” — is the opportunity to have lasting lifelong connections with people who have impacted

Color and history paint the inside of Heirloom Records & Vintage. On one wall you’ll find a rare James Brown vinyl and a stack of The Talking Heads’ cassette tapes no one ever listened to. Paisley 60s skirts, trendy ties,

As classroom chalkboards and hardback textbooks gradually become second-hand to electronic visual boards and laptops, Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. refuses to fall behind the state of the art technology curve. In August 2010, EVSC opened the Technology and Innovation Center

We Hoosiers may disagree on certain things: highways linking Indianapolis to Evansville, Central Time Zone vs. Eastern Time Zone, or really important stuff like Indiana University vs. Purdue University. But here’s something that everyone from Fort Wayne to Fort Branch

Ron Romain could not have been more pleased on the first day of July. He and guests were watching the Web.com Tour’s United Leasing Championship at Victoria National roll to an extremely exciting finish, which turned into playoff time for

After searching for the perfect business to open, Terry and Jody Van Bibber — and their neighbors — found an unusual aroma in the air: coffee. Tucked away in what was a small storage building at the side of their

For any small business, $34 million dollars in sales and being rated a top company in one of your industry’s most prominent national publications would make for a year to remember. For Kurtz Auction and Realty, it was a validation

Ideas don’t create themselves. Whether it’s a new album you recorded in your garage, a series of prints, a mobile brick-fired pizza oven, or a phone app, there are always hurdles that need to be crossed to push your product