When Dan and Rhonda Hawkins teamed up with their high school friend Tom Casey and his wife Tami in 1998 in pursuit of a fast and friendly gourmet espresso dream, little did the lifelong residents of the Rogue Valley know that The Human Bean would eventually expand to over 125 locations across the country.

Lin Frederickson, who has worked at Asante for 19 and a half years in surgery, has been working with Team Senior Referral Services since 2019 to provide essential services to seniors.

In 1979, I took two years off to teach myself biology with the goal of understanding how the human brain worked. Five years later and with a master’s in neurobiology under my belt, what did I learn? That the human brain is the most powerful and complex phenomenon on earth, and we’re not even close to figuring out how it works.

Alternative energy is the wave of the future, and at Ashland Family Denistry (574 Washington Street), Dr. Brandt Cullen, DDS, has joined forces with STracker Solar to install two 12.5kW STracker Model S1B PV-electric units, which track the sun all day.

There’s nothing more magical than watching a baby be born. For Hannah Teasley, CNM, who has been a Certified Nurse-Midwife for the last six years, that magic has been translated into her life’s work via Hive Midwifery and Women’s Health, based out of Ashland.