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W10755 County Rd. M, Shawano 715-881-3867 While Pella Pumpers just started serving the Shawano area in March, the liquid waste and septic pumping service has roots that go back 30 years. “In 1996, my uncle, Phil Allen, started a septic pumping business in La Farge,” said Pella owner and operator Chase Erickson. “I started riding…

N2754 County Hwy Y, Clintonville (715) 701-9375 After a four-year absence, Sandy and Mick Jesko are back serving drinks and cooking up customer favorites at Mickster’s Grill on Cloverleaf Lakes in Clintonville. Having owned and operated the business from 2005 to 2022 — when they sold it to a former employee — they became owners…

720 S. Cecil St., Bonduel • 715-758-2113 Karl and Elvesta Yoder have set up shop in their Bonduel machine shed to fabricate stall gates and fence and corral panels and have been rounding up business for the past two years. The shop location on Hwy 47 (S. Cecil Street) just south of Hwy. 29, and…

N10969 Hwy 22, Clintonville (262) 470-5633 When Quentin Rickert bought a small parcel of land near Clintonville in 2023, his intentions were to run a small, off-grid AirBnB and then build a food forest demonstration site, but that changed quickly and that space today is home to Three Springs Native Nursery. Rickert, who had worked…

132 S. Main St., Shawano | 920-637-4748 When Bree Hornes started Twisted Chic Co. in Shawano on January 1, she envisioned her boutique as being only online. That all changed on April 18 when she opened a store at 132 S. Main St. above Thornberry Cottage. “It didn’t take long for me to realize that…

Owner Felty Yoder N5759 Division Road, Cecil 715-701-3734 Felty Yoder and his crew are ready for the driveway sealing season to begin this month. Yoder, who owns Yoder’s Asphalt Maintenance & Sealcoating, has been in the industry for five years. He learned the business working with Jeremy Kauffman, who owned Jeremy’s Asphalt, and bought the…

204 S. Main St., Shawano (715) 201-0036 Owning and operating a gourmet popcorn shop wasn’t on Dana Maureen Mueller’s radar until just recently, but today she is doing exactly that at Moe’s on Main in Shawano, and she said it only became a reality because of her family. When she was younger, she said she…

Sam Schrock | 715-701-6766 Sam Schrock, owner of J&S Construction, Bonduel, has expanded his offerings to include seamless gutters. Schrock has been in the construction business for 15 years doing sheds and re-roofing. “This was just another thing that goes with the construction that we can offer the customers as opposed to subbing it out,”…