The HideAway

Jim and I have sold the James Gang Coffeehouse and are going to focus our time on enhancing The HideAway Coffeehouse and Wine Bar. This is a lifestyle choice as I am trying to re-gain my health while dealing with Fibromyalgia. I’m hoping to restore my energy so I can enjoy our six kids and all of their activities. We look forward to seeing all of our customers at our downtown Northfield location for either a cup of coffee or a glass of wine! Thank you so much for 4 years of success at the James Gang.

The domain name jamesgangcoffeehouse.com now points to a different web site and this site/blog will use jamesganghideaway.com

I took these photos last week of local artist Joyce Francis who’s displaying some of her calligraphy on the walls of the James Gang HideAway in downtown Northfield. Joyce can be contacted via the Colleagues of Calligraphy site. Click photos to enlarge.

Linda Barck (center) departs her morning post at the HideAway next week.

She’ll be going to work for a company called Healthsense, a spinoff of Redwing Technologies where her husband Terry Barck works.

I took this photo yesterday morning as she was training her replacements, Lindsey Saunders (left) and Anna Thomas. Click photo to enlarge.

I snapped this photo last week of downtown leaders meeting at the HideAway last week, talking high-level stuff.

L to R: NDDC President Dan Bergeson, former mayor Keith Covey, Councilor Scott Davis, NDDC Executive Director Ross Currier, and Councilor Jim Pokorney.

I took this photo of nationally-recognized landscape painter Fred Somers yesterday, posing in front of his work that’s on display this month throughout the HideAway.

Fred and his wife Avis are regulars. Their studio/gallery is just south of Northfield on Hwy. 246.

My daughter Gilly and I took advantage of my James Gang “buy ten, get one free” card last week at the HideAway. Yum! Click photos to enlarge.

Looking for a place to host your holiday party? You can rent The HideAway for a wine tasting and appetizer party for up to 100 people… just like the Northfield CQE did last week for their Vote Yes event.

What a great way to say thank you for a good year and to get your staff or clients to mingle.

Contact me for more information.

The Northfield CQE held a Vote Yes! wine-tasting event tonight at the James Gang Hideaway in support of the proposed operating levy and capital projects referenda on Nov. 7. Left photo (click to enlarge): Anne Maple and Julie Pritchard speaking to the crowd; right: HideAway owners Joan and Jim Spaulding.

See the album of the event for two dozen more photos.

Today’s edition of the Northfield News includes the Diversions section and the James Gang Hideaway is featured on Page 1, continued on Page 2.

Local radio show/podcast Locally Grown took their recording session to the back room of the James Gang Hideaway on Friday. It featured Mill Towns Trail board member Peggy Prowe, since the legislature just allocated $1 million dollars for the trail. Senator Tom Neuville and Representative Ray Cox also participated. Click photos to enlarge and see the Northfield.org blog entry to hear the audio (30 minutes). Left photo, L to R: me, Peggy Prowe, Ross Currier. Right photo: same, plus Neuville and Cox.