Many of us should have slept better knowing measures were being taken avoid risking the safety of the International Falls Water Treatment Plant as flood waters nearby raised. “If the worst-case scenario would have happened, it would have been catastrophic: We wouldn’t’ have been able to make water,” explained Inter national Falls Public Works Director Ted Brokaw.
Rainy Lake crested Monday and is expected to begin receding, barring no severe weather events. With a decrease in demand for sandbags over the last… Login to continue reading Login…
Quianna Ford was seeded 15th coming into the pole vault competition at the State Track and Field Meet on Friday and finished in 11th place… Login to continue reading Login…
STAFF REPORT IJC Commissioner Lance Yohe, members of the International Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Board and its Water Levels Committee, met at the Ranier… Login to continue reading Login…
Alan and Miriam Burchell got some thanks for their pallet repair at Kerry Park last Saturday. Gov. Tim Walz and U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and… Login to continue reading Login…
Maddie Lowe ran in the 300-meter hurdles at the 2022 State Track and Field Meet on Thursday. Lowe was seeded 16th and finished in 15th… Login to continue reading Login…
Violet’s Floyd Chapter 15 Living in a remote area such as the Kielczwski family, a main method of transporting nearly anything was to pack it out. Floyd’s first pack sack was a burlap gunny sack that cut through his shoulders, so he had to put mitts under the straps.
Bronco Kelby Anderson will play in the state golf meet on June 14 and 15. She entered the second round of the Section 7AA golf tournament at The Quarry in Biwabik on Thursday, June 2, with a 5 shot lead after shooting an 89 on Tuesday.
Rick and Anne Holen have spent a lifetime gathering experiences, most of which surround the theater. “It all started with a kiss,” explains the back of Anne Kojola Holen’s book, “A Lifetime in Costuming and the Theater.” That sentiment is supported in Rick Holen’s book, “Our Life in the Theater: Thoughts and Memories of Two Theatre Designers for Half of a Century.” The first page of his book is a photo of the couple walking together taken “the very moment that I asked Anne to marry me,” July 4, 1972, shot by a theater company photographer outside Theatre L’Home Dieu, Alexandria, Minn.
Rainy Lake Visitor Center is closed, but not to people using the boat launch there for flood mitigation efforts, Voyageurs National Park officials announced. All campsites on Rainy Lake are closed; houseboat sites remain open.