Meet Your Good Neighbor Front Porch Series
The Meet Your Good Neighbor front porch blog series was launched in the fall of 2020 as a way to connect with local businesses during…
The Meet Your Good Neighbor front porch blog series was launched in the fall of 2020 as a way to connect with local businesses during a time when community interactions were limited. Each post highlights the stories and unique offerings of Middleton's small businesses, fostering a sense of connection and resilience within the neighborhood.
Meet Your Good Neighbor Stories
Meet Your Good Neighbor: 1847 at the Stamm House
The historic building housing 1847 at the Stamm House has been a lot of things in the last 175 years: a general store, a hotel, a dance hall, an oft-raided…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Amber Indian Cuisine
Meet Your Good Neighbor Front Porch Series: Amber Indian Cuisine When Bala Polachi moved to Wisconsin from the heat of India in 2005, it was a bit of shock. “It…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Capital Brewery
Capital Brewery & Bier Garten has been brewing in downtown Middleton since 1986 — enjoy craft beer, outdoor spaces, and live music!
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Chauette Home & Fashion
Meet Your Good Neighbor Front Porch Series: Chauette Home & Fashion When Sue Bakke was considering moving her women’s clothing boutique from rural Paoli to Middleton, it was a big…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Clasen’s European Bakery
Clasen’s European Bakery in Middleton has been serving its community for more than 60 years.
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Cloth & Metal Boutique
Meet Your Good Neighbor Front Porch Series: Cloth & Metal Boutique Lisa McGuire’s passion for jewelry design initially led to a lot of time on the road. “It was just…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Diny’s Jewelers
Meet Your Good Neighbor Front Porch Series: Diny’s Jewelers A customer came into Diny’s Jewelers one day with a pretty ring that had a delicate floral design. The ring needed…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Dongzhu Pottery Studio
Meet Your Good Neighbor Front Porch Series: Dongzhu Pottery Studio When it comes to making ceramics, the challenge is part of the fun. From the handling of the wet clay,…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Grape Water Wine Bar
Meet Your Good Neighbor Front Porch Series: Grape Water Wine Bar A perfectly poured glass of wine can change the course of a life. That’s what happened to Nicki Prestigiacomo,…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Hidden Cave Cidery
Before the pandemic, business was good for Walker Fanning and Hidden Cave Cidery. His hard ciders were flowing strong in area bars and restaurants, until Covid shuttered all the businesses…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Hubbard Avenue Diner
Meet Your Good Neighbor Front Porch Series: Hubbard Avenue Diner Hubbard Avenue Diner has an amazing pie case and a menu of homemade diner fare but it serves up much…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: I’m Board! Games & Family Fun
Meet Your Good Neighbor Front Porch Series: I’m Board! Games & Family Fun Many of the board games you’ll find on the shelves in I’m Board! Games & Family…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: John/Christine Designs
John Strobel, co-owner of John/Christine Designs, has been making one-of-a-kind jewelry creations since the 1970s, and his inspiration can strike anywhere at any time. “I have dreams, or in architecture.…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Journeyman Co.
Meet Your Good Neighbor Front Porch Series: Journeyman Co. In Downtown Middleton, there’s a men’s store where every garment has a story. “This is made in Seattle,” said Todd Christiansen,…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: KEVA Sports Center
KEVA Sports Center brings people of all ages together for everything from indoor sports to sand volleyball to outdoor concerts!
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Longtable Beer Cafe
Meet Your Good Neighbor Front Porch Series: Longtable Beer Cafe Longtable Beer Cafe is named after its expansive communal tables, which were crafted with reclaimed barn wood from New Glarus.…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Louisianne’s Etc.
Meet Your Good Neighbor Front Porch Series: Louisianne’s Etc. In her heart, Gwen Bryan was not sure the business would even work. What were the odds? Bryan was a 22-year-old…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Promises Floral and Gift Studio
Meet Your Good Neighbor Front Porch Series: Promises Floral and Gift Studio To be a florist, Sharyl LaBelle has learned, is to sometimes be a therapist. LaBelle, owner of Promises…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Sofra Family Bistro
Don’t bother asking Gjyner “Gerry” Lumani for his qebap recipe. The delicious Albanian sausage served by his restaurant, Sofra Family Bistro, is made from scratch the traditional way—by hand. The…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Taigu
As a young woman in the Taigu district of Shanxi, China, Hong Gao didn’t just enjoy noodles — she ate them every day. Wheat-based, hand-cut noodles have been made in…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: The Free House Pub
Embracing its historic past while propelling the pub into the future, Meet Your Good Neighbors at the Free House Pub…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: The National Mustard Museum
Published in 2021 After a long, difficult year, things are starting to get back to normal at Middleton’s National Mustard Museum. Well, as normal as they can get for a…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: The Regal Find
Meet Your Good Neighbor Front Porch Series: The Regal Find In downtown Middleton, you’ll find a former 1800s hardware store that has big, beautiful windows and old wooden floors that…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Tradition Market
When Jen Wuebben was a child, she went shopping with her grandparents for a holiday dress. It was more than a routine shopping trip, it was an important experience—a tradition.…
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Meet Your Good Neighbor: Villa Dolce Cafe
Fifteen years ago, Villa Dolce owners Faton Lumani and his brother Jerry had a dream of opening an Italian café like those they grew up with. A place with great…
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