![State Champs, a new coffee shop on Franklin Street, masks the internal design at 427 Franklin Street, at the corner of Franklin and Summit. State Champs is set to open later in March.](https://kentwired.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/StateChamps_FeatureWeb-1200x628.jpg)
New Kent coffee shop set to open uniting coffee and sports
Lauren Bischof, Beat Reporter
• March 7, 2024
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OPINION: Starbucks has the best water
Dylan Walker, Opinion Writer
• March 1, 2023
![The Human Bean, a new drive-thru coffee chain located at 1713 East Main St., will open in early September.](https://kentwired.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/DSC_0038-900x600.jpg)
Oregon coffee-chain ‘The Human Bean’ to open
Emma Andrus, Editor-in-Chief
• September 1, 2022
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Best of Kent: Study Spaces
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• March 6, 2020
Gift Guide: Bent Tree Coffee
Amanda Levin Assigning editor
• December 4, 2019
Gift Guide: Tree City Coffee
Maria McGinnis Assigning editor
• December 3, 2019
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REFLECTION: Acts of caffeinated kindness
Shelbie Goulding
• February 20, 2019
Coffee — necessary addiction or expensive commodity?
Angela Radesic
• October 20, 2017
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