CEDAR RAPIDS – After 16 years in business, Sandy Rosenberger will close shop one final time. New Bo Mercantile & Vintage Shop, 215 11th Ave. SE, will end its run on Dec. 30, 2017. Rosenberger first opened her business, Hearthstone Gifts & Supplies, in Marion in 2001. The store carried soaps, do-it-yourself supplies and more. […]
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Discovering beauty secrets in goat’s mil
By Cindy Hadish/for Radish Magazine Goat’s milk — a beauty secret said to be favored by Cleopatra — is catching fire far beyond the Nile. While the Egyptian queen purportedly kept her skin supple with goat’s milk baths, the soap form of goat’s milk is gaining a modern-day following. “Quite a few people are making […]
Shops fill niche in New Bo, Czech Villag...
By Cindy Hadish/for the Corridor Business Journal CEDAR RAPIDS — Meegan Hofmeister chose the road less traveled in her first entrepreneurial venture. Ms. Hofmeister opened an upscale clothing shop in November 2013 in New Bohemia, an area known more for its dining and entertainment options than retail enterprises. Two years later, the success of The […]