Where has time gone? It just seems like yesterday that the Wild Goose opened at 2365 Ashland Street. Now here they are celebrating their 23rd year in Ashland. Both Dal and Renee Carver spent their formative years in Ashland, then moved away in the 80s before deciding to return in 1998 to open the Goose.

For Jim Mills, owner of Caldera Brewing Company & Restaurant (590 Clover Lane), the secret to life is simple: “I absolutely love beer,” he said, “as long as it’s good beer.”

According to co-owner Shannon Tinder, the Sacred Living Center (1806 Ashland Street) is not your cookie cutter spa & wellness center.

It was the spring of 2014 when Gus Janeway, a winemaker at RoxyAnn Winery, decided to switch gears and open a new kind of bicycle shop, Piccadilly Cycles (525 A Street) in Ashland with his good friend Blaine Pickett.