A fifth-generation hardware store in Arlington, Minnesota, is celebrating 125 years of service in the local community. Current owner Dick Thomes, who has worked at the store since he was 12 years old, says his great-grandfather, Nick Thomes, opened the …
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Jeff Basler, owner of Basler’s Ace Hardware is retiring. Basler will close the store which is located in Oregon. According to SaukValley.com business was brisk Tuesday morning as a steady stream of customers took advantage of the store’s going-out-of-business sale. To read …
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Hardware retailing is a tough business, but a few independent retailers are seeing plenty of success. They’re being honored by the Denver-based PRO Group with its annual Paul L. Cosgrave Memorial and PRO Hardware Retailer of the Year awards. This …
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Carr’s Hardware and owner Darlene Scott have been honor with the Marysville Historical Society’s first-ever certificate of recognition. According to local newspaper the Marysville Goble, Marysville’s Historical Society President Ken Cage moved to town in 1965, the same year that …
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Ace Hardware Corporation is proud to recognize six local Ace Hardware stores with the company’s fourth-annual “Coolest Hardware Store” awards. Of 4,850 locally owned and operated Ace Hardware stores worldwide, these six winners were named as winners of this prestigious …
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Woodson Lumber Company is celebrating 100 years in service this year. According to local newspaper, The Eagle, one hundred years ago, two Missouri brothers made their way to the Brazos Valley, where they settled in and took over a lumber …
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Marcus “Mark” Retzlaff, 85, of New Ulm died July 12, at the Oak Hills Living Center in New Ulm, Minnesota. Funeral service will be 11 a.m., Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in New Ulm with …
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Henery Do It Best Hardware announced plans to open a new store in Bremerton in August. Owner Matthew Henery recently signed a lease on an approximately 26,000 square-foot building in the Wheaton Mall and said the store will employ about …
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