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Openings, closings, and the small businesses that anchor Talbot County's economy.
Local Business tracks the county's economy at street level: new storefronts and openings, business milestones, workforce and hiring trends, and the small-business owners who make up Easton, St. Michaels, Oxford, Trappe, and Talbot County's smaller communities.
Vincent Magnini's Institute for Service Research report puts non-resident spending at $446.29 a head — the clearest measure of outside money into Easton retail before winter.
Talbot Street fills because the product is real; 2025 economic-development sessions already named the bottleneck as housing, not branding.
The designation is the network’s highest, placing Easton among 838 nationally accredited downtown revitalization programs.
County business and government leaders filled the Easton ballroom in May; The Market at Dover Station took a Community Impact Award the same season.
Mid-Shore Community Foundation’s 2026 annual board meeting is on the calendar; applications opened July 1.
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