PAX Bread by Hailey:  Vendor of The Month

PAX Bread by Hailey: Vendor of The Month

 “Every home feels more like home when there’s a baked bread ready to eat,” Hailey Labbe says as she speaks to me about her sourdough baking story. The owner of PAX Bread by Hailey started with a simple desire to bake a bread that she could eat, which gave rise to a...
Dronet’s Floor Gallery:  Business of The Month

Dronet’s Floor Gallery: Business of The Month

At 7:30 a.m. one recent morning, I was speaking on the phone with Leslie Dronet Mencacci, co-owner of Dronet’s Floor Gallery & Pure Stoneworks in Erath, who had been at work since 6 a.m. – which is the norm for her. “It’s a quiet time to start working on estimates...
Diabetes: Health & Wellness

Diabetes: Health & Wellness

If you had to guess the most expensive chronic condition in the U.S., you might say cancer, given the cost of treatments and associated drugs. But the answer is diabetes, the condition that has reached epidemic proportions. Since 2021, more than 38 million people in...