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Upstate hardware store starts new life as worker-owned co-op
CANTON | Diane Cullen has worked for Coakley Home and Hardware since she was 16 years old. Today, 37 years after her first day, she can call herself an owner of the company. Coakley’s, a 124-year-old business with two locations in the North Country region of New York, became a worker-owned cooperative last week. With the help of the Cooperative Development Institute, Diane and other Coakley’s employees formed a cooperative and bought out the business from their boss, Bill Coakley.
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Coakley Home and Hardware Becomes Employee Owned
Coakley Home and Hardware is now owned by its employees. The business, founded in 1902, has stores in Canton and Saranac Lake. Employees completed the purchase from Bill Coakley October thirtieth, forming a cooperative with thirty worker owners. The Cooperative Development Institute helped with training, governance and financing resources. Coakley, who began planning for retirement two years ago, will stay on as a consultant. The business employs more than fifty people.
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Essex Junction cannabis and duck farmer poised to get his growing license back
A judge ruled that Jason Struthers can resume his backyard cannabis growing on Taft Street because his operation predates the city’s new laws zoning cannabis cultivation. Read the story on VTDigger here: Essex Junction cannabis and duck farmer poised to get his growing license back .