 After only three months of Sunday liquor sales, the City of Bemidji is moving ahead with a plan to close one of its liquor stores on Sundays. During a work session council, members discussed whether to keep its city-owned liquor stores open or to close them on Sundays. Numbers for Sunday sales show that two city-owned stores are breaking even since the addition of Sunday sales. City Finance Director Ron Isians made the recommendation to continue Sunday sales but with just one of the stores. The benefit of being open on Sunday is primarily customer convenience. We've had decent traffic in the stores in July, the novelty of the kind of war off. From a staff perspective, we would suggest at least looking at closing down the Lakeview store if you wanted to minimize some labor costs and having one store open. The council agreed with the recommendation and will reevaluate Sunday sales again. In a few months. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.