November 20, 2012 In a poll taken recently of Americans, 45% of them said they would rather skip Christmas. The reasons were many. Americans still want to gather the families and celebrate, just not in the same way.
Last year, Best Buy made a bunch of their customers angry when they were unable to fill the orders taken on Black Friday and Cyber Monday due to a lack of inventory. The company then failed to make its customers aware of this until just days before Christmas. Needless to say, Best Buy’s customer-service practices have not been held in very high regard ever since.
Spirit Bay Trading Company is Duluth's premier Native American arts & crafts supplier, with new shipments of arts, crafts, beads and unique designs from local artists arriving daily, as well as brands such as Minnetonka and Pendleton. It is l
November 19, 2012 The Northland Chapter of the American Red Cross wants to help brighten the holidays of active military members and wounded warriors with their Holiday Mail For Heroes program.
November 19, 2012 As a life-long "foodie", I end up being the person a lot of my friends and co-workers come to with their food-related questions. With the holidays just around the corner, I'm starting to get questions specifically about turkey.
November 19, 2012 My wife's family has a little group that heads out on Black Friday and buys deals and sales at stores in the area. I found this website that shows you ads early, and in some cases will let you print coupons.
November 15, 2012 Have you been to Bentleyville? It opens up officially on Friday, Parade day. Do you have some great shots of the Tour Of Lights? Send it in and you could win a prize. I love taking pictures at Bentleyville because everyone is happy and the lights add and extra feature to the picture.
November 14, 2012 This is the 55th year of the Christmas City of the North parade. That means for 55 years we've been hearing the "Christmas City" by Merv Griffin. Do you think you can do it better? Enter a special contest at Christmascityparade.com.
November 14, 2012 Christmas City of the North Parade gets under way on Friday. It will be Broadcast Live on KBJR 6 and Range 11 or online at: NorthlandsNewsCenter.com. So when I tell people KOOL 101.7 will be a part of it, I get a thousand questions. So here's the answers:
November 12, 2012 Everyone is familiar with the song "Christmas City". Merv Griffin is a huge Icon and artist. There is a great story behind the parade but in the day, people were more accessable and so the story of Merv Griffin doing a song for a small town is so much better and historic
November 6, 2012 Local musicians! A nationally-known recording act! Twenty-seven holiday songs! And two worthy charitable causes!
Some 35 years after 'Grease' hit theaters, stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John are reuniting...for a Christmas album. With Kenny G. And Barbra Streisand. Yes, this is actually happening.
