After retirement from teaching at Robert Asp School in Moorhead, Ralph Fiskness has found a unique way to stay fit and engaged and learn more about small town history in the tri-state region.
In this business, one rarely hears from readers unless they’re mad about something — in my experience, at least — but the column I wrote about the refurbished Coleman camp stove and my long-lost Coleman camping gear definitely seemed to strike a chord.
Tony and Kathy Mommsen launched their 18½-foot Wenonah Odyssey canoe loaded with two Trek 520 touring bicycles, a small makeshift canoe trailer and various camping gear into the St. Croix River at St. Croix Falls, Wis., on Aug. 2. Since then, they’ve pedaled or paddled across southern Minnesota on an east-west route that eventually took them to the Red River and north to Kittson County near the Manitoba border in far northwest Minnesota.
Infections generally increase during heat waves because Naegleria fowleri is a heat-loving organism that grows best at higher temperatures up to 115 degrees, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
An effort to give families a place to skate in Helga Township has evolved into a full park project for the area near the historic Nary School. Project leaders are now seeking funds and hope to build the park over this year and in 2022.
Minnesota does not have a formal program for addressing abandoned or derelict watercraft. If a boat sinks, however, and is not removed within 30 days, the owner is subject to a civil penalty of two to five times the cost to remove, process and dispose of it.
No clear successor has emerged to maintain the humorous collection of signs at Duluth's Piedmont Ski Trail and to replace those that have gone missing.
