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NANCY EDMONDS HANSON: After Thought — The Death Of Groovy

For some, it was the breakup of the Beatles — for others, the demise of the Volkswagen Bug. For me, though, “groovy” officially died last week when Vanity announced it’s closing its doors. Millennial shoppers may view it as merely a sign of the times … or barely notice at all, given their propensity for ordering online and foreswearing girly …


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NANCY EDMONDS HANSON: After Thought — Accenting The Positive

Perfect English? That’s the way you heard it spoken when you were growing up. For those of us lucky enough to live here in the center of the universe, that pretty much means the Scandihoovian-tinged or Deutsch-inflected accents of Minnesota and North Dakota. Thus the message was plenty clear last week when the owner of Orange Julius, a West Acres …