With last week’s announcement of the higher than normal risk of spring flooding, the Insurance Federation of Minnesota, IFM, reminds property owners that spring flood season is fast approaching. According to the data, even if Minnesota just gets an average amount of snowfall in March and April, it will mean the state will have one of the 10 snowiest on record.
The seamier side The early 1900’s in Koochiching bring to mind the migration of settlers; how hard they labored, how they managed just to survive overcoming the many challenges and thrive in difficult conditions. It seems unlikely that there would be a seamy side but historians have offered a perspective that included gambling, liquor issues and though unseemly, prostitution.
Dear Amy: My husband and I have a special- needs teenage son. After more than a year on a wait list, we finally have an in-home therapist.
Sunshine Week was launched in 2005 to emphasize how news outlets, and laws that protect our right to information, shine a light on government, making us more aware of the impact government decisions or indecision have on our lives.
The Rainy River baseball team lost a pair of games March 12 to Miles College. Game 1 was a 14-4 loss in five innings as Jesse Martinez went 2-3 with an RBI.
The Minnesota State Climatology Office is looking for volunteer rainfall monitors for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCo-RaHS). The network includes more than 20,000 volunteers nationwide who measure precipitation in their backyards using a standard 4-inch-diameter rain gauge.
The FHS Ojibwe Quiz Bowl team left Thursday, March 2, for its much anticipate first quiz bowl competition of the year. The team was made up of Kim Wehrenberg, Ninamay Kingbird, Khia Porter, and Kianna Shughrue, with Hunter Wilson serving as the alternate.
In case you’re wondering why I was not in church Sunday morning, I was in the Omaha airport at 6:30 a.m. waiting for a flight back to New York, listening to an announcement that unattended baggage would be confiscated, eating a breakfast croissant and blueberry yogurt, drinking coffee, which came to $19.74, which happens to be the year I started doing my old radio show.
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It’s a precarious thing what the freeze melt cycle of Spring brings to the table up here in the north country year after year. A sunny warm early March day and some dry pavement makes walking easy, until that is, until you round the corner of the building where the eaves have been dripping snow melt from the roof ever so slightly on to the pavement and the water runs across it to a driveway or street. When the late afternoon temperature drops the water solidifies and there you have it, a little patch of ice with a friction coefficient low enough to impress a physicist.