From Reader’s Digest: Abingdon resident Susan Dunn is featured this month in Reader’s Digest, which selected her anecdote for “All in a Day’s Work,” a portion of its Humor Section that shares readers’ amusing work-related experiences. Reader’s Digest receives more than 30,000 Humor submissions a year. Her anecdote: A gentleman arrived at our travel agency […]
Readers of Maryland Life Magazine Vote 6 Havre de Grace Businesses the Finest in Baltimore Region
From the City of Havre de Grace: In 2011, Havre de Grace Won the Free States Finest award for having the finest historic downtown. In 2012, Havre de Grace shines as a destination with some of the finest businesses and historic downtown in the Baltimore Region according to the 2012 results of the Maryland Life […]
Keeping It Local: Not Just for Retail
By Fran Johnson, Publisher, Harford’s Heart Magazine The 3/50 Project, launched by Cinda Baxter in March 2009, challenges shoppers to think of 3 independent local shops that, in their minds, contribute significantly to the character of their community and to then commit to spend $50 a month in those stores. The commitment isn’t for $50 […]
Keeping it Local: Making Your Community Your “Home Town”
By Fran Johnson, Publisher, Harford’s Heart Magazine In the same way that a house becomes a home, the community where we live becomes our ‘home town’ when we take a good look at all the elements and invest ourselves in those things that contribute to the overall quality of life. When we move into a […]
Defining Local: Benefits of Keeping it Local are Simply Stated, Putting them into Practice is Multi-Layered Challenge
By Fran Johnson, publisher, Harford’s Heart Magazine We’ve seen the commercials and heard the slogans urging us to Shop Local, Eat Local, and Support Your Local Community. The arguments for Keeping it Local are simply stated: • Purchasing from locally-owned shops serves as an economic stimulus, helps grow other businesses and contributes to the local […]
Making Sense of Keeping it Local
By Fran Johnson, publisher, Harford’s Heart Magazine The benefits of Keeping it Local are familiar to us all by now: – supporting the local economy by retaining a larger percentage of our spending dollars in the community – helping to create jobs and fund more public services through local tax revenues – providing community development […]
Keeping It Local: Harford’s “Buy Local” Campaign Requires Shift In How We Think About Food
By Fran Johnson, publisher Harford’s Heart Magazine Harford County’s Division of Agriculture recently received an Achievement Award at the National Association of Counties Annual Conference in Reno, Nevada, for its “Buy Local” campaign to increase awareness of the availability of local-grown food. The award was acknowledgment of the county’s efforts to support our local agriculture […]
Keeping it Local in Harford
By Fran Johnson, publisher Harford’s Heart Magazine Beginning with its inaugural issue in early 2005, Harford’s Heart Magazine has been encouraging its readers to Keep it Local, enumerating the ways that shopping in local stores, eating from local farms, and obtaining services from local businesses strengthens the local economy. Dollars spent in local-owned businesses have […]
