IT WAS MORE THAN 3 YEARS ago when we first reported that Jimmy John's would be vacating their North 3rd Street location and moving south... to another North 3rd Street location. The plan was to put their new store in the building that once housed Border Grill, in the 800 block, just across West Prospect from 3rd ... Continue Reading
Veterans Days
Veterans Days... plural. Tomorrow, November 11th, is Veterans Day, while today is Veterans Day (observed). The reason for the duplication is not to double up on our salute to veterans, but rather to give certain employees a day off, per their employment agreement. When you think about it though, days isn’t a ... Continue Reading
The Times… They Are A-Changin’
WITH APOLOGIES TO Bob Dylan… yes, the times are changing, but not how he meant in his song of the same name. No, this time the change is more scholarly than spiritual. It’s our annual move, every fall, from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time. It complements our annual conversion, every spring, from Standard ... Continue Reading
Self-Checkouts • Drinking for a Cause • A Nickname Idea
Check it out… Yourself I know… you don’t work there. So why, when you thought you were a customer, are you expected to handle the checkout duties? Isn’t that something someone else should do? Like an employee, who gets paid to be there? It was probably Walmart that was first with self-checkout in the area, ... Continue Reading
A Vets’ Home… Where? • Arts and Parks
A Safe Home for Veterans A RECENT GUEST COLUMNIST in the Mining Journal questioned the wisdom of building the new Jacobetti Home for Veterans at the former Cliffs-Dow site on Lakeshore Boulevard. The author’s objections… that you shouldn’t build a vets home on contaminated ground, are representative of a considerable ... Continue Reading