Mint Crew l to r: Marie Jappe, and Shayla Vroman, Lawrence Jappe
As most of Big Sandy knows by now, the famous Mint has changed hands. Or rather it has come back into familiar hands who have owned it before.
Lawrence Jappe IV, Shayla Vroman and Marie Jappe were at "The Mountaineer" last week talking about what the Mint is all about.
Marie said that she and Larry bought the Mint for the kids. Marie added it was very familiar to the family as her mother and father owned it from 1996 to 2005. And even before that Walt and Judy Sivertsen owned the popular watering hole. They sold the Mint to Tammy Houle who was forced to sell it this fall due to physical proble...
