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Gritstone Climbing and Fitness reaches one-year milestone

MORGANTOWN — Gritstone Climbing and Fitness is celebrating its first anniversary and after a difficult climb of a year for everyone, they have much to reflect on. “There's no way we could survive without all the wonderful people that choose to spend their time and their money here to ...

American labor crisis hit all the small businesses on this street

It’s 4:30 in the morning, and Raymond Mikesell’s alarm has gone off. Within an hour, as the first rays of pink and orange morning light reflect off the skyscrapers in the city, Mikesell is at his restaurant, Cafe Raymond, in Pittsburgh’s Strip District, the city’s Main Street for ...

For Coombs Flowers, business is a thing of beauty

By Dana HantelNewsroom@DominionPost.com In 1952, William and Agnes Coombs opened a greenhouse and flower shop on Canyon Road. William had just graduated from West Virginia University, and he applied all  he’d learned about plants to their new business venture. Coombs Flowers ...

Startups booming thanks to COVID

If you’re looking for silver linings in this pandemic-damaged economy, here’s a good one: the American entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. In fact, COVID-19 seems to have uncovered it. According to census data, there were 500,219 new business applications in May 2021 — an ...

American general store a symbol of enterprise and exceptionalism

BUCKSTOWN, Pa. — The Duppstadt’s Country Store, sitting high on a plateau along the Lincoln Highway between Stoystown and Reels Corner, has served Somerset County residents and weary travelers since 1903. When you open the heavy wooden door and hear it creak with age, you get the sense ...

Small businesses call for support from Sen. Manchin

SHEPHERDSTOWN – A group of West Virginia small businesses launched a coalition Tuesday to call on Sen. Joe Manchin to support a piece of federal legislation that is facing a roadblock in the senate. The West Virginia Small Business for Democracy Coalition is comprised of more than 100 ...