Roger's liquor license

[willyfahey]

What ever happened with the liquor license debate with the new owners?

[UpNorthIce]

From what Chris told me the other day on the phone they were able to score there liquor license. This will be a great addition to Rogers on red. Nice work

[CigarGuy]

Last Sunday's Star Trib had a short paragraph about it....

"A northern Minnesota resort owner scrapped plans to open a liquor store after the neighboring Red Lake Band objected to the business opening so close to the border of their dry reservation.

"My first response was to dig into a trench and fight," Chris Freudenberg, owner of Roger’s Resort, told Minnesota Public Radio. "But when you sit back and think, the tribe has a point."

Alcohol is banned from the lands of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa, and tribal leaders worried about the damage an easily accessible source of liquor would have on a community where many members have struggled with substance abuse.

Freudenberg said he had wanted to open the shop to give his guests a way to get a drink without having to drive, but realized it might simply encourage tribal residents to drink their purchases before driving home, where alcohol is banned.

“That would just undo what I was trying to do,” he told MPR. Instead, he said, he plans to sell drinks at a small restaurant and bar under construction at the resort, where he said a bartender could keep an eye on customers’ consumption.

Freudenberg dropped his permit request last week, ahead of Tuesday’s night’s meeting of the Beltrami County Board. Nevertheless, tribal legal adviser Michelle Paquin asked board members to consider a “buffer zone” around the reservation when considering future liquor license requests.

Beltrami County Chairman Jim Lucachick pledged to take the tribe’s concerns into account.

“We want to be in touch with the Red Lake Tribal Council,” he said, according to the Bemidji Pioneer. “We want to work together"

[Portavilla]

The resort will have strong beer and drinks with our restaurant this season. The off sale liquor sales application was withdrawn. We also are in the process of installing a new pos system that gives us the opportunity to take pictures and I'd information for season passes. This same system could be used for tribal IDs and a notification system that we have yet to discuss with the tribe but are getting it in place.

The debate is the reservation is a dry reservation and against there laws. It could be said that we are discriminatory if we refuse to sell however we could sell and notify. This should be worked out as an alternative to what the tribe is requesting. For now it's on sale & fishing.

[Agronomist_at_IA]

Being from Iowa I have no idea what off sale and on sale liquor is. So, can you tell me what it is? In MN you do have some really messed up laws when it comes to booze. It took us a few annual upper red trips to figure out it was easier to just bring booze from home vs trying to get it in northern mn.

[gunner55]

Off sale means you can buy to go,liqour & beer usually.

[bturck]

off sale you buy and leave with it, you do not drink there, on sale is a bar./restaurant where you can drink right there, some establishments have license where you have on and iff sale in the same location. when i was in Iowa pheasant hunting i was surprised to see strong beer sold in grocery stores. in Mn grocery stores may sell beer but its 3.2%.

[BigDogRob]

The easiest way I had it described to me is. On premises/Off premises.

[SrBrits]

Hmmmm,

doesn't Jerry have an off sale in Saum at his store?