BUSINESS

Help wanted at Rewind Video & Arcade

The new rental store on Main is hiring for evenings. Must love movies. Must stay until close.The new rental store on Main is hiring for evenings. It's exactly what it says it is. Ask about the staff picks.

BY PAT MOREAU BUSINESS MONDAY, OCT 26, 2026

Rewind Video & Arcade, the new rental store on Main, is hiring evening clerks. The store opened last month in the old Woolworth's building, with about four thousand tapes on the shelves and a row of arcade cabinets in the back.

Clerks will check out rentals, rewind returns, keep the new releases wall stocked and make change for the arcade. The owner says the most important part of the job is knowing the movies.

“Must love movies,” the listing says. “Must stay until close.”

STAFF PICKSTHE STAFF PICKS

Each clerk gets a shelf of their own for staff picks, with a handwritten card for every tape. The current picks lean toward horror, which the owner says rents best in October.Each clerk gets a shelf of their own for staff picks, with a handwritten card for every tape. Some of the shelves have cards in handwriting nobody at the store recognizes. Those tapes are always checked out.

“Must love movies. Must stay until close.”

REWIND VIDEO & ARCADE

Applications are taken in person at the counter, evenings after 5. Ask about the staff picks.Applications are taken in person at the counter, evenings after 5. It's exactly what it says it is. Ask about the staff picks.

Browse the staff picks →Browse the staff picks. Some of them are yours →

Three road workers, one in an orange safety vest, stand behind a striped road-closed barricade on a rural road at dusk. — From left: Ray Dunleavy, Gus Pell, Marv Toivonen and Ted Lusk, Baraga Dr., Tuesday.From left: Ray Dunleavy, Gus Pell, Marv Toivonen. Ted Lusk is standing on the right. Look again.

LOCAL CONSTRUCTION

Road work will close a stretch of Baraga Dr. through NovemberThe crew on Baraga Dr. isn't fixing the road

Public Works director Ray Dunleavy calls it routine. "Nothing down there worth worrying about."No asphalt has been delivered. Neighbors hear drilling after midnight. Dunleavy: "Nothing down there worth worrying about."

An abandoned wooden sawmill with a sagging roof on a misty riverbank surrounded by autumn trees. — The old Pell Sawmill, Hollow Creek.The old Pell Sawmill. Do not walk here after dark.

ENVIRONMENT

Residents near the old sawmill report a sweet smell along the riverSomething blooming at the mill is putting the east side to sleep

Several east-side neighbors say the smell is strongest just before they fall asleep.Residents who walk the river after dark wake up three days later on their porches.

A wooden telephone pole on a quiet residential corner covered in layers of stapled lost-pet flyers. — Flyers on the corner of Elm and Third.Flyers on Elm and Third. Every one is the same dog.

COMMUNITY

Hundreds of lost-pet posters appear across town in a single weekAnimal control stops counting. Keep pets inside after dark

Animal control says it has never seen anything like it. Most of the missing pets were last seen near Hollow Creek.The posters are real. So are the tracks along Hollow Creek.