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In business: St. Cloud landscape business acquired by Twin Cities company St. Cloud landscape business acquired by Twin Cities company A St. Cloud landscape company servicing commercial and homeowner properties was acquired by a Twin Cities commercial landscape company in March. St. Cloud's Peerless Lawn Care Inc. was acquired by Prescription Landscape Inc., which provides commercial landscape services and snow removal. Peerless owner and founder Aaron Haakonson will be branch manager for the St. Cloud division. He and his employees will continue on with Prescription, Haakonson said in a ne...

Committed to strengthening the knowledge, skills and diversity of Minnesota’s economic development professionals, the nonprofit Minnesota Economic Development Foundation is promoting upcoming training opportunities and offering scholarships for professional development.

Dani Pugsley, President and CEO of the Mountain Home Area Chamber of Commerce, recently completed the Mid-South Basic Economic Development Course offered through Arkansas Economic Developers and Chamber Executives (AEDCE). Pugsley joined 44 other participants from four different states in the four-day fall program. Offered annually, the Mid-South Basic Course provides an intensive overview of the process and practice of local economic development. It features over 30 instructors, who are recognized experts in their fields. It is one of 25 such courses accredited by the International Economic ...

Send Clockwise from left: Dana Watkins, Seth Williams, Kathy Gardner, Alex Beasley and Will Edwards of First Security Bank Dana Watkins has been named senior vice president of First Security Bank in Jonesboro, while Seth Williams has been named vice president and Kathy Gardner, Alex Beasley and Will Edwards have all been named assistant vice presidents. Before being named SVP, Watkins managed the bank’s real estate central loan processing department. Williams was a trust officer for four years at First Security. Gardner provided personali...

Her first year on the job was not one Cecilia Harry could ever have envisioned. She stepped into her role as chief economic development officer for the Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC in December 2019. She and her family had moved from Wisconsin, where Harry had been president and CEO of Envision Greater Fond du Lac, the combined chamber of commerce and EDC for that community. She was eager to dive in, to shake hands with business and city leaders, to attend gatherings and visit key employers. And then the pandemic took hold. "I got my 90-day review in quarantine," she recalls.