DULUTH — With Bentleyville lit and the 2025 Christmas City of the North Parade only a memory, the holiday season is here. Check out our guide to related events, and read on for some additional ideas.
Only in America would the week following Thanksgiving turn into a secular holy week full of prompts to drop your cash: Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday. Still, the prompts work — and Small Business Saturday is “the Super Bowl for independently owned businesses,” as The Bookstore at Fitger’s put it in a recent newsletter.
In Duluth, which prides itself on craft and entrepreneurship, you can’t throw an agate without hitting a small business (so please don’t). Whatever your favorite spots in the city are, there’s a good chance they will be offering specials or other enticements to…