Paul Bunyan Park and downtown Bemidji will soon be illuminated with around 800,000 lights to kick off the holiday season and the annual First City of Lights Celebration on Friday, Nov. 24.
Today the Friends of the Bemidji Library has 270 members. The organization is celebrating its 40th anniversary and the Red Door Bookstore is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
Some say old Bemidji home to 40 saloons and eight brothels was a rough and rugged town due to the presence of the lumberjacks. But, didn’t the lumberjacks spend most of the winter in the woods?
Over the past 100 years, the current location of Ally’s Corner at Fourth Street and Minnesota Avenue has undergone significant change quite a few times over.