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From the Editor
Let ’ s celebrate our generational businesses
HR Minute
Your small business needs HR
Five Questions with Brandi Jones
12 Economy
Planting the seeds of a decline
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The Koetter Group
A long time Floyds Knobs business shakes things up
Giving Back
Generational businesses return the favor to residents
Competing with the Big Guys
How keeping it local keeps it special
Make a Mocktail
Jeffersonville bar wants you to have fun , with or without alcohol
Adapting to Change
After years in business these families know how to roll with the times
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This section highlights several locally owned and operated businesses who have decided to pass on their legacies by keeping it all in the family .
ON THE COVER : Preston Carr , Jim Book , Bill Book , Ethan Lawver , Oliver Book , Tim Book , Emma Koopman and Ella Paris of Book ’ s Dairy and Produce . |
Publisher Bill Hanson
Editor Libby Cunningham
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Writers Libby Cunningham Uric Dufrene Brooke McAfee Anna Hinton Jen Selinsky |
Bill Hanson Tom May Minniequa M . Johnson Danielle Fischer
Advertising Director Jeff Smith
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Photographers Bill Hanson Brooke McAfee
Libby Cunningham Jen Selinsky Joseph Ullrich
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