Business

  1. New Biz Oly: Vital Rejuvenation

    Introducing you to new locally-owned businesses… VITAL REJUVENATION   Patricia Sylwester, MD, and Michael Farley met three years ago when Patricia was still running the Pacific Wellness Clinic, an urgent-care…

  2. New Biz Oly: Mud Flat Press

    Mud Flat Press and Publishing By Holly Graham                   Aside from being well-known Olympia peace activists working with Families United against Hate for LGBT and human rights, Alec and Gabi…

  3. New Biz Oly: Flojo Therapeutic Massage

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    Introducing you to new locally-owned businesses… FLOJO THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE   Andrew Flojo left his birthplace of Hawaii to study massage therapy, enrolling in the Seattle Massage School of Fife, earning…

  4. New Biz Oly: Druid’s Knook

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    Introducing you to new locally-owned businesses… DRUID’S KNOOK Dan Mills and his daughter Brittany left Aurora, Illinois, as soon as she graduated from high school. The two made their way… ☞

  5. New Biz Oly: Tamale Fusion

    NewBiz: Tamale Fusion

    Melanie Gary and Devon McCabe became partners in life and in tamale-making through a mutual love of good, nutritious food, great cooking, and memories from their childhoods of street tamale… ☞

  6. New Biz Oly: Roseroot Herbes

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    Introducing you to new locally-owned businesses… ROSEROOT HERBES   A visit in beautiful mid-August to Sleepy Hollow Road found the hardworking women of Roseroot Herbes joyfully ‘flinging poo’ into their… ☞

  7. New Biz Oly: Smiling Mo’s Cookies

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    Introducing you to new locally-owned businesses… SMILING MO’S COOKIES   Over a picture of two young wrestlers in a match, the headline in a California newspaper from 1989 reads “Monte… ☞

  8. New Biz Oly: Marchetti Wines

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    Five generations of Rich LaRosa’s paternal and maternal lines made wine in Italy. Later, when his Grandfather Joseph Merendoni immigrated to the states, they carried on making wine in Aberdeen…. ☞

  9. New Biz Oly: The Blend Cafe

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                The Atrium Courtyard of the New Caledonia Building is a sky lit, magical entrance to what was once an elegant hotel. It is there… ☞

  10. New Moon Cafe “goes co-op” as the Black Moon Collective

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    Earlier this month, the secret that a handful of Olympia residents were waiting to divulge was finally let loose to the world: The New Moon Café is becoming Olympia’s only…