The Main Street Café aims to bring Clarksburg’s music scene back to life with an all-ages venue. Building the music scene and giving bands a place to play are what drives the duo behind The Main Street Café. “We started The Main Street Café for the sole purpose of giving bands in the area a hometown venue, one that supports them 100 percent,” says…
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Recent Stories from the Magazine
Turnaround Artist
Newly appointed executive director Jim Browder is revitalizing Tamarack with big ideas and small changes. During his decades-long career in the hotel industry, Jim Browder became known as the guy you called when a property needed to be turned around. He did it for struggling properties all over the country, from Seattle to Washington, D.C., Buffalo, New York to Orlando,…
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The Life of Dry Creek
The Charles B. Jarrell General Store has served its community daily news and necessities since 1884. For more than 130 years the Charles B. Jarrell General Store, located 13 miles south of Whitesville on West Virginia Route 3, has been the hub of the wheel of life in Dry Creek. Its floor boards, hewn and laid decades ago, are warped from…
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The not-for-profit Health Plan offers a community-based approach to health insurance. If your company needs a place to keep its money and you want to put it somewhere small and locally controlled, you might consider joining a credit union. If you have the same criteria for health insurance plans, you might consider The Health Plan. “We’re not owned by a…
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Dave Pray, Founder and Principal, Prayworks
Anne Montague works to preserve an often overlooked corner of American history before it’s too late. Dave Pray started Pray Construction in 1974 and, over the course of 25 years, grew it from a small residential construction company to a titan in regional commercial construction and a competitor on the national stage. In his years at Pray Construction he completed projects in 19…
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