by Juliana Tornabene, WMTV – April 28, 2021 On National Pay it Forward Day, one Beloit coffee shop is reminding customers they can provide random acts of kindness all year round.Blue Collar Coffee in downtown Beloit has a Pay it Forward wall inside of its shop, according to the business.The wall lets customers have the Read more…
by Clint Wolf, Beloit Daily News – April 28, 2021 An announcement of a name change and a restructuring of divisions at Fairbanks Morse included assurances that virtually nothing would change at the Beloit manufacturing facility, with one exception.Fairbanks Morse—now Fairbanks Morse Defense—will move its headquarters out of the manufacturing complex and into offices in Read more…
by Brad Allen, Beloit Daily News – April 18, 2021 For Mindy Koontz, the Downtown Beloit Association’s (DBA) 2021 Spring Wine Walk truly felt like a taste of home.Koontz, a Janesville resident who works for the Greater Beloit Economic Development Corporation, is originally from the Portland, Oregon area, and she was excited to sample a Read more…
by Frank Schultz, Janesville Gazette – April 15, 2021 Thirty years ago, Jennifer Ruse bought a sculpture of a mushroom someone hadmade with a chainsaw.She loved that mushroom and figured she could carve her own.“I can do that,” she would say each day as she passed by her mushroom.But she didn’t until 2018 when she Read more…
by Kevin Reichard, Ballpark Digest – April 13, 2021 The Beloit Snappers (High-A Central) have been cleared to play by the city and will begin the season at Pohlman Field until construction on the team’s new downtown home is completed.In meeting MLB guidelines this season, capacity will be limited, and physically distanced pod seating will Read more…
by Austin Montgomery, Beloit Daily News – April 12, 2021 The Beloit Farmers’ Market is right around the corner and the Downtown Beloit Association (DBA) is ready to rebound from the pandemic by bringing back vendors and offering more goods than last year.Shauna El-Amin, executive director of the DBA, said the vendor base would spring Read more…
by Josh Flickinger, Beloit Daily News – March 30, 2021 Virtually everything you know about the Beloit Snappers got yippedupside down as the calendar turns to 2021.No longer is the club a barely-surviving outfit with a barebones front office staff,plying its trade out of an outdated ballpark with next to little in the way of Read more…
by Hillary Gavan, Beloit Daily News – March 29, 2021 After a year of fear and isolation, are you seeking some positive energy and gentle touch?In the top floor of the Strong Building, the energy is moving and healing is underwayas Beloit Healing offers massage and Reiki rocking to those who are COVID-19 weary.Owner Joanne Read more…
by Austin Montgomery, Beloit Daily News – March 22, 2021 The Downtown Beloit Association helped serve as a vital resource to businesses in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Executive Director Shauna El-Amin says the organization is making preparations for scaled up events this year as conditions improve.In 2020, the DBA had to make Read more…
by Lauren Baker, WREX – March 21, 2021 People in the Stateline are able to grab some fresh and local goodies all thanks to a farmers market.The Downtown Beloit association is hosting its first-ever indoor winter market.The association started the market back in November because of COVID-19restrictions.Every Saturday, people are able to get things like Read more…
