Madison's new thrift store, now christened the Encore Family Store, is scheduled to open in November. Store organizers have scheduled donation drives to collect merchandise for the store for Aug. 16, Sept. 6 and Sept. 13 from 9 a.m. to…
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Orland organic ag magnate Charlie Johnson opines Socratically on the "community" thrift store being built on Madison's Main Street: Does anyone know if there was ever a professional study and/or survey taken verifying the feasibility of a new thrift store…
Madison's thrift store relaunched this month as an entirely private, public-subsidy-free project. The private developers began demolition of the old Jensen building this week to make way for their downtown dream project. But the thrift store has already received one…
Madison City Commission candidate Jennifer Wolff is disappointed with the new downtown thrift store proposal: Yesterday's front page news was the new community thrift store planned for Madison. Two years ago when this issue came up, it was rife with…
[Note: this post discusses the views of Ashley Kenneth Allen, who is also the newest advertiser on the Madville Times. Readers may draw and post their own conclusions as to the accuracy and fairness of this article.] Madison City Commission…
Ah, Madison. Two years ago, we Madisonites had all sorts of fun discussing one group's plan to spend $1,050,000 to build a big community thrift store on South Egan Avenue on the site of the old Jensen Motors building. Confronted…
The thrift store committee still isn't listening. At Tuesday's Lake County Commission meeting, Jerry Johnson said that he and his fellow boosters plan to forge ahead with their plan to build a million-dollar thrift store to replace three buildings in…
The Lake County Commission earns its pay today. The agenda (archived here) includes a whole whack of 2013 budget requests from county departments and outside agencies starting at 10:15 this morning and running past 3:20 this sultry afternoon. The blog…