Greetings! The Granite Falls Area Chamber of Commerce would like to announce new Board members: Alicia Beck, Country Financial, Kelly Kruger, Scenic Valley Real Estate, and Pam Rosenau, MVTV Wireless Internet to our Board of Directors! Congratulations!

Since 2009, the building known locally as the NSP Plant has been out of commission. Xcel Energy owns the building named the Minnesota Valley Generating Plant, and has made the decision to demolish the building later this year.

Krista Miller, of Granite Falls, began her work in the gourmet coffee business at the age of 15 when she started her first job at The Granite Grinder. “I worked for Lisa off and on for the last 15 years. I always wanted to open my own coffee shop, and her closing [The Grinder] kind of put a rush on that,” says Miller. “So as soon as I heard that she was closing, I kind of jumped into it right away. I thought how can I make this work?”