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9-25 is the 1st Annual Dolly Day, and we’re celebrating a true icon. 💖🎸✨

For generations, Dolly Parton has given us unforgettable music, fearless individuality, generosity, humor, and a message that never goes out of style: be who you are and lead with kindness. 🌈

Here’s to Dolly. Forever fabulous. Forever one of a kind. 💕🤠✨

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Our monthly potluck is TOMORROW—
Saturday, September 26th, 12:00 - 2:00 PM!

Join us for great food and even better conversation. Bring a dish to share or just come enjoy what others have cooked up!

Register now at link in comments!

It’s 9/25. Of course we’re doing Dolly. 💖

STARSTRUCK celebrates Dolly Parton tonight at 8 PM at Stacy’s.

Our full 2026 Arizona List General Election slate!!! 🤩 We are so proud to be supporting more than 100 women running for office across Arizona. 💜 If you want to know more about them, head to our website and check them out!

Women Run. Women Win. Women Lead!

TONIGHT! We're hopping on board The Chariot for a little bar hop to bring FREE PrEP to Stacy's at Melrose, Charlie's and Kobalt!! If you've got insurance, we can get you signed up with Freddie to get PrEP from the comfort of your home and completely free! No copays, no deductibles, delivered to your door! And if you don't have insurance, we can get you set up with PrEP too at no cost! We'll see you out!!

Photographers, prepare your cameras. It's almost that time in Flagstaff.

If you didn't know, Flagstaff is known for its absolutely beautiful color-changing aspens and Fall colors. Make sure to check out our Leaf-o-meter for leaf color updates!

Please note: Lockett Meadow access is currently closed for road construction. There will be no vehicle, foot, or bike traffic allowed up the 552 Road.

A customer choosing your competitor is one thing. A customer choosing your competitor because they think it’s you is another.

That confusion can cost more than a sale. Your reputation can also be affected by products, services, and experiences you do not control.

Your business name and logo help customers recognize you. Distinctive packaging or product appearance can do that, too—and may qualify for protection as trade dress. These are the features that help a customer connect what they are buying with the business they trust.

So why does it matter whether you address infringement?

Because allowing similar branding to become commonplace in your market can make your rights harder to enforce. The next competitor can point to those other businesses and argue that your name or visual identity is not particularly distinctive—and deserves less protection. That can give competitors more room to resemble you legally.

Successful enforcement helps preserve the distinction. And documenting the results matters: evidence that another business stopped using a confusing name or changed its branding can help demonstrate that you have maintained, rather than surrendered, that distinction. You are building a record that can support your position in future disputes.

For founders and family businesses, I would put this alongside the next discussion about marketing or expansion: What are we investing in making recognizable—and what are we doing to keep it recognizably ours?

That calls for judgment about which infringements matter, proportionate responses, and records of what those responses achieved—not a lawsuit over every resemblance.

The business reason is straightforward: the money and effort spent building your reputation should help customers choose your business, not mistake someone else’s for it.

PLATZ JURIS | Protecting what you’ve built. Let’s talk: [email protected]

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