SNOHOMISH — In bright daylight, the cornfields at Stocker Farms aren't scary. They're green and peaceful. Not even ropes of fake barbed wire spider-webbing across the sky can change that. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090910/BIZ/709109932
Joel Smith used to be in the bike business. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091104/BIZ/711049999
STANWOOD — Fay Mafnas likes getting questions from her customers. That's why she's there. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100215/BIZ/702159891
MARYSVILLE — Patricia Schoonmaker worried about how she'd stay in the clothing industry when she lost her job as a fashion designer in August. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091109/BIZ/711099897
SNOHOMISH — Kelsie Wens' fingers moved quickly as she applied a color treatment to her friend's hair one morning last week. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091207/BIZ/712079951
MARYSVILLE — Jimmy Quillen wasn’t dreaming of dollar signs when he opened his barber shop two weeks ago. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091214/BIZ/712149971
EVERETT — In past years hungry shoppers would wait in the parking lot when the One Twelfth Street Diner opened on the day after Thanksgiving. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091213/BIZ/712139963
Ironically, Denice Ingalls discovered mead on a dry college campus. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090406/BIZ/704069888
The owners of Travel 4 Real wanted a lifeline, a $35,000 federally backed loan that would help pay for new employees and expansion. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091223/NEWS01/712239814
Downtown Monroe is in transition: here an 80-year-old tavern, there a newly rebuilt storefront, and everywhere the signs of a slow plan to revitalize Main Street. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100107/NEWS01/701079951
The story of Sojen Cellars starts several years ago in a Lake Stevens garage. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100111/BLOG31/100119977
Customers arrive carrying plastic bags full of books, usually dog-eared and a bit ragged. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100125/BIZ/701259960/1005#Owner.of.Monroe.bookshop.waits.for.right.buyer.
SULTAN — There are small businesses, and then there are small businesses. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100201/BIZ/702019948#Hole-in-the-wall.food.stand.getting.off.the.ground.in.Sultan
BOTHELL — The tables come in two sizes at The Village Bean. Short and grande. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100329/BIZ/703299975
MARYSVILLE — The music drifts out of Mary Burns' storefront and down Third Street, eventually losing its way amid rumbling engines. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100325/BIZ/703249955
EVERETT — Marilyn Rosenberg wants a new sign for her coffee shop. She'd like to hire three more part-time employees and pay off the home mortgage she used to launch her business five years ago. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100325/BIZ/703259908
An Everett-based startup is developing a plan to explore places no man or woman has gone before. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100502/BIZ/705029938
Look out for Alvin and his two chipmunk friends. You can’t miss them; they’re over there by the door. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100530/BIZ/705309929
The first thing you notice when you park your car outside Furion Cellars is the music. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100614/BLOG31/100619953
Across the street from Carol Schillios' shop in Edmonds, a group of men wearing coats and scarves sat outside a Starbucks. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091121/BIZ/711219958
The process starts with a bucket of unroasted coffee beans, looking pale and a bit like fat little peanuts to the untrained eye. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090525/BIZ/705259980/1005
