Charles Erickson

Correspondent at Brattleboro Reformer

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St. Johnsville store provides affordable major appliances to rural residents

1 month ago | dailygazette.com | Charles Erickson

The owner of Andys Appliance & Tool described his stove inventory for a visitor and then started laughing. He thought the commentary made him sound like a veteran major appliances seller and not the top person of a store that opened just over two months ago.
Thinking outside the box at Stratton Escape Room

1 month ago | reformer.com | Charles Erickson

WINHALL — About nine out of every 10 players that try to solve the puzzles inside the Stratton Escape Room are tourists or other types of visitors to the area. Many of them are skiers, and the spouse-owners of the business know there is no better location than the small building with the sloped roof at 36 Vermont Route 30. It is across the street from the access road to the Stratton Mountain Resort. “See that?” Rob Willis said, as he pointed out a window in a room decorated with a Christmas tree.
Thinking outside the box at Stratton Escape Room

1 month ago | manchesterjournal.com | Charles Erickson

WINHALL – About nine out of every 10 players that try to solve the puzzles inside the Stratton Escape Room are tourists or other types of visitors to the area. Many of them are skiers, and the spouse-owners of the business know there is no better location than the small building with the sloped roof at 36 Vermont Route 30. It is across the street from the access road to the Stratton Mountain Resort. “See that?” Rob Willis said, as he pointed out a window in a room decorated with a Christmas tree.
Thinking outside the box at Stratton Escape Room

1 month ago | reformer.com | Charles Erickson

WINHALL – About nine out of every 10 players that try to solve the puzzles inside the Stratton Escape Room are tourists or other types of visitors to the area. Many of them are skiers, and the spouse-owners of the business know there is no better location than the small building with the sloped roof at 36 Vermont Route 30. It is across the street from the access road to the Stratton Mountain Resort. “See that?” Rob Willis said, as he pointed out a window in a room decorated with a Christmas tree.
Turning wood through the tides of time: JoHannes Michelson's life at the lathe

2 months ago | benningtonbanner.com | Charles Erickson

MANCHESTER – Before he would talk about getting out of the tool business and returning his focus to making wooden hats and even some wooden bowls, JoHannes Michelsen said it was important to first discuss his father, and the son of the richest man in the world, along with the Vietnam War and waiting out a tsunami while on top of Bromley Mountain.
Turning wood through the tides of time: JoHannes Michelson's life at the lathe

2 months ago | manchesterjournal.com | Charles Erickson

MANCHESTER – Before he would talk about getting out of the tool business and returning his focus to making wooden hats and even some wooden bowls, JoHannes Michelsen said it was important to first discuss his father, and the son of the richest man in the world, along with the Vietnam War and waiting out a tsunami while on top of Bromley Mountain.
The Pine Needle: A vocation etched in canvas and fiber

Jan 16, 2025 | manchesterjournal.com | Charles Erickson

MANCHESTER – The Pine Needle, the latest needlepoint-related commercial venture from Willie Ferrone and Ashley Vestergren, opened in a storefront here during the week before Thanksgiving. The shop sells hand-painted needlepoint canvasses and the supplies necessary for stitching and finishing them. Stitchwheel, founded in 2021 and also based in Manchester, acts as a go-between for needlepoint designers and the overseas studios that are engaged to paint the canvasses.
Owners of Fultonville's Serious Goose hope to create comfortable space for all

Dec 17, 2024 | dailygazette.com | Charles Erickson

FULTONVILLE — With its big sidewalk windows, the old brick building at the southwestern corner of Main and Erie streets in Fultonville was designed long ago as a place from which people could conduct business. And for the last three months, it has hosted a discount store named Serious Goose. Owners Joe and Amanda Boyer had previously been running Amsterdam’s What-A-Bargain, but said they decided in April to go off on their own. The store at 1 Northern Blvd.
Shared nostalgia: Pastime Pinball celebrates five years

Nov 20, 2024 | manchesterjournal.com | Charles Erickson

MANCHESTER – Black Friday 2019 was on Nov. 29, and because there have been two leap years since, the day after Thanksgiving 2024 will also be Nov. 29. It will be the fifth anniversary of when Marty and Beth Friedman gathered a collection of notable pinball machines and opened their Pastime Pinball at 4802 Main St.“This is a fun business,” Beth Friedman said on a recent Saturday afternoon as she staffed the upstairs snack bar. From below came the aggregated sounds from the parlor’s 66 machines.
Johnstown's Intuitive Touch & Massage growing business 'organically'

Nov 14, 2024 | dailygazette.com | Charles Erickson

JOHNSTOWN — Amber Miller was face down inside the tiny building at 211 North Perry St. when she told Paula Tybor she had been there 28 years before. Tybor, a licensed massage therapist, or LMT, was giving Miller a deep-tissue massage. “I said, ‘You know, this store used to be something else,’” Miller, 40, recalled. “I went in there as a young girl. It was a mystical store.