The owner of a small ski and snowboard rental and tune shop in a mountain town looked at last winter's campaign report and couldn't make it add up.
The ads had been seen plenty of times. People had clicked. But the reservations for rental packages, the thing
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On the morning of Veterans Day, a retired school nurse loads three bags of children's winter coats into her car. She had seen a flyer at the library: a community bank in town was collecting coats at all of its branches through the end of November. She searches
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On the first Sunday in November, the membership manager at a regional history museum sits in the empty education room with two lists. The first is the year-end appeal list: everyone who has given money in the last eighteen months. The second is a list nobody a
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The last fall cleanup of the season wraps up on a Thursday in early November. The leaf piles are gone, the irrigation lines are blown out, and the trucks at a family landscape design-build firm come back to the yard one at a time. Marcus, who started the compa
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When a bike comes back from the repair stand at a certain neighborhood bike shop, there's a paper tag looped around the handlebars. It's written by hand. "Rear brake pads were worn to the metal. Replaced them and trued the wheel. Your chain has a season left.
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