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Backyard Liquor Happy to Serve STMA

The area's only locally-owned liquor store continues to deliver for the heart of the community.

April 7, 2021 By Mike Schoemer

Backyard Liquor staff

Over the past many years, as St. Michael has grown, one constant has remained. Across from the restaurant location on south side of Center Avenue and First Street Northeast, a liquor store has served the St. Michael community. It’s had its ups and downs – that little store. But thanks to Craig and Darla and […]

Tagged With: Backyard Liquor, Craig Jelen, Darla Jelen

Stellis Health in Albertville Adds Physician’s Assistant to Meet Needs

A familiar face has turned from urgent care to family medicine as the network continues to grow.

March 25, 2021 By Mike Schoemer

Physician Assistant Katie Alvarez, PA-C, recently shifted her practice from Urgent Care to providing family medicine care at Stellis Health – Albertville-St. Michael Clinic. “We’re excited to have Katie join the Stellis Health-Albertville Clinic team full-time to support the growing needs of community members in and around the Albertville-St. Michael community,” says Douglas Hanson, MPA, […]

Tagged With: Albertville-St. Michael Clinic, Alvarez, Family medicine, Stellis Health

City of Albertville Approves Industrial Facility for Town’s Northwest Corner

March 15, 2021 By Meghan Gutzwiller

Once pegged as a possible location for a “Mall of Entertainment,” a plot of agricultural land on Albertville’s northwest corner has now been committed as the site of the city’s new Albertville Business Park, which will include an industrial manufacturing facility called Advanced Volumetric Alliance (AVA), which builds multifamily housing component units. After initial on-site […]

Tagged With: Advanced Volumetric Alliance

Buffalo Ice Cream Shop Expands to Serve Up Scoops in St. Michael

What's the Scoop will open a second location in the community this summer.

March 15, 2021 By Mike Schoemer

Ice Cream Shop

St. Michael loves its ice cream, as evidenced by the mad rush on Dairy Queen once it re-opened a couple of years ago. Now, a Buffalo favorite is making its way to downtown St. Michael, with What’s the Scoop setting its scrumptious sights on the building that also hosts Tangles Salon. What’s the Scoop owners […]

Tagged With: Buffalo, ice cream, new business, What's the Scoop

The Hen and The Hog Rises, Serves Up Comfort in Albertville

STMA's newest eatery has navigated the waters to offer Minnesota Wontons, mac and cheese and much more.

February 17, 2021 By Mike Schoemer

It was an idea that, like many great ideas, sprung from a night around a kitchen table. Out of the ashes of a pandemic that has left many businesses without a rudder, take the leap. And open a restaurant. Wait. Open a restaurant? “It was a few people from the service industry sitting around the […]

Tagged With: Albertville, new business, restaurant, The Hen and The Hog

Restaurants, Crowds Get a Boost for Holiday Weekend

With Valentine's Day dates and President's Day weekend on tap, extended hours OK'd by state officials.

February 12, 2021 By Mike Schoemer

Tim Walz

As hospitalizations and the COVID-19 positivity rate continue to decline and the state makes progress in vaccinating those most vulnerable, Governor Tim Walz today signed Executive Order 21-07 to continue supporting Minnesota’s economic recovery and make adjustments to COVID-19 mitigation measures. “Our small businesses have made enormous sacrifices for the health of their employees and […]

Tagged With: COVID-19, Gov. Tim Walz, Restaurants, Valentine's Day

Restaurants Get Another Reprieve as Governor Turns MN Dial

Spectators will also be allowed at sporting events, including youth hockey.

January 6, 2021 By Mike Schoemer

While the United State Capitol descended into turmoil, the State of Minnesota seems to have emerged from its latest COVID-forced shutdown, as Gov. Tim Walz announced Wednesday, Jan. 6 that he would ease restrictions on dining establishments, bars, entertainment venues, and even sporting events. “Minnesota, we’ve asked a lot of you, and you have delivered,” […]

Tagged With: COVID-19, dials, Restaurants, Walz

Stellis Health Docs, Nurses Get First Round of Coronavirus Vaccine

The local frontline workers were among the first Minnesotans to receive the Pfizer vaccine.

December 30, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

Frontline workers at Stellis Health are now getting the vaccine protection they need against COVID-19. Vaccinations started at the clinics – located in Albertville, Monticello and Buffalo, earlier this month. “We’re vaccinating frontline caregivers with the highest risk of being exposed to COVID-19 first so they can continue to provide critical care to others who […]

Tagged With: COVID, Stellis Health, vaccine

Stellis’ Hanson Named Top Health Care Leader

Monticello's Douglas Hanson recognized for leadership, innovation.

December 29, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

Douglas Hanson, CEO of Stellis Health, has been named one of 100 Most Influential Health Care Leaders in 2020 by Minnesota Physician. Deemed by their peers to be highly influential in terms of leadership and impact, the 100 leaders are known for making health care in Minnesota a global model of excellence. “Our people are what […]

Tagged With: Douglas Hanson, Stellis Health, Top 100

Neighbors Restaurant Group Among Those Sued by MN Attorney General

The Princeton location was open Wednesday, Dec. 17 in defiance of the Governor's Executive Order.

December 17, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

The owner of the Neighbors Eatery and Saloon in Albertville is now facing a citation from the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office after choosing to open the Princeton location of the chain – Neighbors on the Rum – on Wednesday, Dec. 16, two days prior to the expiration of Gov. Tim Walz’s Executive Order requiring restaurants […]

Tagged With: Albertville, Gov. Tim Walz, Joe Holtz, Neighbors

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