The “Winter Market” in Sartell opened Nov. 7 for a new season of locally grown and/or crafted items.
The Winter Market is the seasonal extension of the spring-summer Market Monday, a long-established outdoor farmers’ market in Sartell.
From 10 a.m.-1 p.m., visitors made the rounds of the nearly 20 vendors exhibiting their wares inside Sartell City Hall. There was a wide variety of food products and other items for sale: honey, meats, fall vegetables, canned veggies, teas and coffees, baked goods and more.
The Winter Market will be open for three more days through November and December and then one day each in the months January through April. On each of those days, market hours are from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Here is the schedule: Nov. 21, Dec. 5 and 19, Jan. 9, Feb. 20, March 12 and April 9.
Dalman was born and raised in South St. Cloud, graduated from St. Cloud Tech High School, then graduated from St. Cloud State University with a degree in English (emphasis on American and British literature) and mass communications (emphasis on print journalism). He studied in London, England for a year (1980-81) where he concentrated on British literature, political science, the history of Great Britain and wrote a book-length study of the British writer V.S. Naipaul. Dalman has been a reporter and weekly columnist for more than 30 years and worked for 16 of those years for the Alexandria Echo Press.