Author: Chris Mays, Brattleboro Reformer

GUILFORD — A pet grooming business has won the Windham County Business Plan Competition, earning $20,000 for business expansion.”I entered last year, didn’t win and thought I should win,” Katie Stalder said.Stalder turned the garage at his home in Guilford into a workplace when he started Wicked Clean Grooming in May 2021. Mostly, he grooms cats and dogs but sometimes rabbits and bird hooves. This time, for the contest, he spent more time developing a business plan. “It’s a very time-consuming processing, writing a business plan,” he said.He saved some information from last year and updated some numbers. He also…