KSAX: No More Broadcasts

Well, that's interesting:

"UPDATE: KSAX discontinues broadcasts"
Echo Press, Alexandria, Minnesota (June 29, 2012)

"For many viewers, it’s like losing a long-time friend.

"KSAX-TV, which has provided news programming in the Alexandria area for 25 years, announced Tuesday that it was substantially reducing its operations, effective immediately.

"The local news cut-ins that the station did during Twin Cities-based KSTP-TV nightly newscasts are gone, along with local weather forecasts and locally produced commercials.

"The cutback leaves 17 people without a job. Those employees will receive severance pay and benefits, according to the station’s owner, Hubbard Broadcasting. In addition, KSAX will work with local and state government agencies to help employees with outplacement assistance.

"KSAX's website is also gone. Online viewers are being redirected to the KSTP-TV site...."

My main focus for this blog is Sauk Centre, about 20 miles closer to Minneapolis-St. Paul than Alexandria, Minnesota. Sometimes, though, what happens in the 'big town' down the road shows up here.

In this case, we'll be missing KSAX television here, too: it's part of 'local' cable services.

Vaguely-related posts:

• "Earthquake in Alexandria, Just Down the Road"
  (May 1, 2011)
• "Saturday and Seven Below"
  (January 2, 2010)

Sale Signs; Restaurant and Batting Practice; Sunset

Sunday, June 18, 2012. Unger's big stock liquidation sale is still going. It started last September.


Ungers: stock liquidation sale in progress. September 27, 2011.


Unger's Furniture, this weekend. Look closely: those signs in the windows aren't the ones from last year. June 23, 2012.


The latest signs are getting a little sun-bleached, though. June 23, 2012.


Look even closer: "new management/new merchandise." June 23, 2012.


Sauk Centre's 'other' Chinese restaurant: Four Seas Buffet, near Walmart. That's where Fitness Guru used to be. June 23, 2012.


Four Seas Buffet is newer than their downtown counterpart. There's another distinction, too. June 23, 2012.


Need a little exercise after your meal? Four Seas Buffet has this batting practice setup next door. June 23, 2012.


Sunset. We get one each day, but they're not all this scenic. June 20, 2012.

That's about all I've got for now. See you next week.

Related posts:

• "Unger Furniture's Last Sale; Felling Trailers' New Building; Maybe Snow Tomorrow (and - Rain?!)"
  (February 19, 2012)
• "Beautiful Bright Blue Skies, Estate Tax SNAFU, New Gospel Book"
  (October 2, 2011)
• "Hummingbird Feeder, a Look at Downtown, and Golden Star's Open"
  (June 12, 2011)
• "Moonrise, Freezing Rain, and a Chinese Restaurant"
  (November 21, 2010)
• "Andy's Wok License Revoked, Buildings in Transition"
  (September 1, 2010)