Greetings and welcome to Friday! Looks like a hot and humid weekend and upcoming week! Last Saturday was a gorgeous and very well attended Art, Oysters & Brews event. Sarah worked setup and engaged the attendees with stickers, huge bubbles and video recording throughout the day. She also videoed the [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday and welcome to August - yowza, that escalated quickly! Thanks to all who attended our August Board of Directors meeting yesterday - it was a great discussion of our FY23-24 work plan and strategic priorities. We'll refine it next week and take Birgitte's suggestion of [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! It's truly a gorgeous day out there! Here's our staff update for the week: Blue Economy:: On Wednesday morning, Sarah, myself and Mark Farley met with Courtney Flathers - our local governor's office Regional Solutions team representative. We also met with the new Regional Development [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! Susan and I got back on Tuesday night from a ten-day romp in the high Rockies, based in Leadville (elevation: 10,200 ft). Six years ago, I almost took a job doing economic development there (for an EDO that is now defunct) - so we thought [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday and welcome to July!! I wanted to give a huge shout-out to our amazing team: Leslie and Sarah! They both did an awesome job presenting interesting, thought-provoking and relevant presentations at our annual meeting! Also, they were incredible mixologists! Way to go you two! You [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday and welcome to Summer!! So the optimist is excited about sunny days and gorgeous weather and opportunities to explore, grill out and enjoy those awesome local and regional beer gardens... the pessimist points out that every day from today until December, the days get shorter [...]