• Another Main Street Gem

    Another Main Street Gem

    Huaimin brings ancient Chinese secrets to town: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which includes Acupuncture, Herbs, Tuina, and many other modalities, offers an entire theoretical and scientific system.  It is not simply a gathering of pieces of experience, remedies, and knowledge, it is a medicine with its own theory of the [...]

  • Lake Cottage Charm

    Lake Cottage Charm

    By Jessie Wade This chapter of Bonnie and John’s story begins in 1994 when they purchased the quaint, Cape Cod style, lake home. Even though they had just finished remodeling their previous house at the time, the two of them saw that the home, which they had regularly driven past [...]

  • The Lowell Park Project: Shawn Sanders

    The Lowell Park Project: Shawn Sanders

    Thanks for meeting with us Shawn.  What can you tell us about yourself? I am the Public Works Director/City Engineer for the City of Stillwater. I have lived in Minnesota for the past 23 years. My wife, three kids and I live in Vadnais Heights. I grew up in Rapid [...]

  • Sarah’s Cottage

    Sarah’s Cottage

    Q: How do you handle a late spring? A: When the spring arrives late as it has this year, we have to be ready to roll whenever the weather allows. Q: Is there anything specific that you encourage your clients to do differently when winter won’t let go? A: I [...]

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Health & Wellness

The Benefits of Regular Massage

The Benefits of Regular Massage

Have you ever been curious about why people get massages so often? Three of our friends from Massage Envy, Just For Me Spa and Huamin Ma Spa and Super Tea will answer your questions. They helped us identify the benefits one might get from routine massages. Stillwater Living – benefits [...]

June 9, 2013 ×

Health & Wellness

Another Main Street Gem

Another Main Street Gem

Huaimin brings ancient Chinese secrets to town: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which includes Acupuncture, Herbs, Tuina, and many other modalities, offers an entire theoretical and scientific system.  It is not simply a gathering of pieces of experience, remedies, and knowledge, it is a medicine with its own theory of the [...]

June 6, 2013 ×

Haven

Lake Cottage Charm

Lake Cottage Charm

By Jessie Wade This chapter of Bonnie and John’s story begins in 1994 when they purchased the quaint, Cape Cod style, lake home. Even though they had just finished remodeling their previous house at the time, the two of them saw that the home, which they had regularly driven past [...]

May 22, 2013 ×

Boulevardier

The Lowell Park Project: Shawn Sanders

The Lowell Park Project: Shawn Sanders

Thanks for meeting with us Shawn.  What can you tell us about yourself? I am the Public Works Director/City Engineer for the City of Stillwater. I have lived in Minnesota for the past 23 years. My wife, three kids and I live in Vadnais Heights. I grew up in Rapid [...]

May 21, 2013 ×

Outdoors

Sarah’s Cottage

Sarah’s Cottage

Q: How do you handle a late spring? A: When the spring arrives late as it has this year, we have to be ready to roll whenever the weather allows. Q: Is there anything specific that you encourage your clients to do differently when winter won’t let go? A: I [...]

May 16, 2013 ×

Outdoors

The Community Garden at Staples Field

The Community Garden at Staples Field

“For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people’s love and concern for each other” -Millard Fuller   Habitat for Humanity Founder Our not so winter-y winter has some residents of the North Hill dreaming of a community garden… a place for people of all [...]

May 9, 2013 ×

Foodie

Bliss in a Bite at the Chocolate House

Bliss in a Bite at the Chocolate House

When I called to schedule an interview with St. Croix Chocolate Company my minds eye was seeing a Willy Wonka style factory filled with large equipment, cavernous spaces and maybe an oompa loompa or two.  What I found when I arrived was a quaint little chocolate colored house with an [...]

May 3, 2013 ×

Foodie

The Man Behind the ‘X’

The Man Behind the ‘X’

By Mellissa Dahl Sometimes you are lucky enough to walk into a place and know immediately you are going to thoroughly enjoy yourself. I get that feeling every time I walk through the door of the award-winning Marx Fusion Bistro in downtown Stillwater, a place I’ve been frequenting since it [...]

April 30, 2013 ×

Outdoors

Puppy Dog Eyes for a Dog Park

Puppy Dog Eyes for a Dog Park

By Kelli Billstein When Allison McGinnis was growing up she kept “river dogs” that felt the St. Croix was their territory. She trained these lucky pooches on sandy islands between the tree-lined banks. On any given day, Allison would take Buddy (a galloping lab mix) and Sir Galahad (a spirited [...]

April 26, 2013 ×