In his 20 years of service to the citizens of Harford County, life-long resident Barry Glassman spent two terms on the Harford County Council and became a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 2000, serving as Chairman of the County Delegation for seven years before being chosen by the late Senator Bob Hooper […]
Keeping It Local: Not Just for Retail
By Fran Johnson, Publisher, Harford’s Heart Magazine The 3/50 Project, launched by Cinda Baxter in March 2009, challenges shoppers to think of 3 independent local shops that, in their minds, contribute significantly to the character of their community and to then commit to spend $50 a month in those stores. The commitment isn’t for $50 […]
Keeping It Local: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk
By Fran Johnson, Publisher, Harford’s Heart Magazine Cinda Baxter, the marketing consultant from Minneapolis, MN responsible for The 3/50 Project, visited Harford County this week and addressed a group of business owners and economic development professionals on the importance of supporting local ‘bricks and mortar’ retail, restaurant and service businesses. The premise of The 3/50 […]
Keeping it Local: Making Your Community Your “Home Town”
By Fran Johnson, Publisher, Harford’s Heart Magazine In the same way that a house becomes a home, the community where we live becomes our ‘home town’ when we take a good look at all the elements and invest ourselves in those things that contribute to the overall quality of life. When we move into a […]
Defining Local: Benefits of Keeping it Local are Simply Stated, Putting them into Practice is Multi-Layered Challenge
By Fran Johnson, publisher, Harford’s Heart Magazine We’ve seen the commercials and heard the slogans urging us to Shop Local, Eat Local, and Support Your Local Community. The arguments for Keeping it Local are simply stated: • Purchasing from locally-owned shops serves as an economic stimulus, helps grow other businesses and contributes to the local […]
Making Sense of Keeping it Local
By Fran Johnson, publisher, Harford’s Heart Magazine The benefits of Keeping it Local are familiar to us all by now: – supporting the local economy by retaining a larger percentage of our spending dollars in the community – helping to create jobs and fund more public services through local tax revenues – providing community development […]
Keeping It Local: Harford’s “Buy Local” Campaign Requires Shift In How We Think About Food
By Fran Johnson, publisher Harford’s Heart Magazine Harford County’s Division of Agriculture recently received an Achievement Award at the National Association of Counties Annual Conference in Reno, Nevada, for its “Buy Local” campaign to increase awareness of the availability of local-grown food. The award was acknowledgment of the county’s efforts to support our local agriculture […]
Keeping it Local in Harford
By Fran Johnson, publisher Harford’s Heart Magazine Beginning with its inaugural issue in early 2005, Harford’s Heart Magazine has been encouraging its readers to Keep it Local, enumerating the ways that shopping in local stores, eating from local farms, and obtaining services from local businesses strengthens the local economy. Dollars spent in local-owned businesses have […]
