https://misquahpilot.com/ The weekly newspaper of Misquah, Minnesota — where the coffee’s hot, the lakes are cold, and all the children are above average. A new edition every Tuesday. Entirely fictional; faithfully published. en-us Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://misquahpilot.com/issue-30.html https://misquahpilot.com/issue-30.html Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The Sky Is Borrowed This Week: Smoke Settles Over the Chain, and the Town Is Advised to Take It Easy. Also in this edition: Planning Board Sets the Hagen Date; Test Rounds Two and Three Brew on Second Avenue; the Canvas Stays On; the Steam Is Reported as Smoke; This Is the Actual Final Call; The Sweet Corn Is In; Fire Hall Asserts Out-of-Season Claim to the Disputed Chair, Citing “Elevated Operational Tempo”; The Fish Have Not Read the Advisory; One of Them Flew. https://misquahpilot.com/issue-29.html https://misquahpilot.com/issue-29.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Full House, Forty Speakers, No Vote: Pasture Question Goes Under Advisement. Also in this edition: First Test Batch Brews on Second Avenue; Building Smells Like Bread Again; Mrs. Aune Drops By the Library, Inspects the Ladder, Is Gently Sent Home; The Turtle Is Back on County 9; Crew Paints Around It Again, Now by Policy; Final Call: Fair Entries Close a Week Saturday; The Juveniles Have Discovered Their Wings; Results So Far Mixed; After the Tournament: the Walleye Don’t Notice, and the Bass Are Educated. https://misquahpilot.com/issue-28.html https://misquahpilot.com/issue-28.html Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Council Approves Brewery, Sends Sign to Fall; the Hagen Hearing Is Tonight. Also in this edition: The Stain Stays, for Now: Council Splits the Difference by Doing Nothing; License in Hand, the Creamery Brewery Aims for August; Aune Home From Abbott, and Under Orders to Rest; Summer Reading Hits a Record 41 as the Ladder Keeps Climbing; The Loon Chicks, Nearly Grown, Have Stopped Needing Anyone; Midsummer Holds: Walleye Deep, Panfish Everywhere, Nobody Complaining. https://misquahpilot.com/issue-27.html https://misquahpilot.com/issue-27.html Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT First “Official” Boat Parade Replaces the Conga Line; Big Pelican Survives the Formality. Also in this edition: Bull Moose Turns Up on Little Pelican, Halting Traffic and Settling a Question; Aune Flown to Abbott During the Fourth; the Library Carries On Under Tollefson; New Bank President Arrives From Edina, Wanting to Know Your Name; Council Faces a Crowded Tuesday: Brewery License, Eighteen Houses, and the Stain; The Peterson Barn, 125 Years Standing, Gets a New Roof; Brewery Nears Opening in the Old Creamery — Where the Pilot’s Press Almost Stood. https://misquahpilot.com/issue-26.html https://misquahpilot.com/issue-26.html Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Misquah Puts a Parade on the Water; the First Fourth of July Flotilla Sets Out Saturday. Also in this edition: One Bet, Thirty-Five Years, and a Stain That Won’t Come Off Main Street; The Bear Got Into the Walk-In; It Took the Imported Cheese and Left a Latch Behind; Eighteen Houses, One Pasture, and the Most Crowded Room in Misquah Since the Lutefisk Vote; A Brewery for the Creamery: the Building Empty Since 1987 Gets a Second Life in August; The Hardest Line in Town Forms by the Landing as the Martinez Family Opens a Taco Truck; Methodists Vote to Repave the Lot; the Job Is $19,000, a Memorial Gift, and a Long Time Coming. https://misquahpilot.com/issue-25.html https://misquahpilot.com/issue-25.html Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Misquah Holds Its First Pride Parade Behind a Twelve-Foot Rainbow Walleye, and the Whole Town Turns Out. Also in this edition: A Bear Swims to Loon Island, Walks Through a Teen Bonfire, and Leaves With the Hot Dogs; Fourth of July Committee Confirms the Route, Which Is the Same Route; Adds a Parade on the Water; Council Votes to Form a Subcommittee to Staff the Stop-Sign Subcommittee; the Post Turns 69; Bear Defeats the Bungee in Under Four Minutes; the Daybreak Concedes the Dumpster; Tim’s New Minnow Tank Springs a Leak; the Minnows Are “Honestly Thriving”; Hydrant Flushing’s Long Tail: the Clerk Fields the Eleventh Brown-Water Call. https://misquahpilot.com/issue-24.html https://misquahpilot.com/issue-24.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Council Names Stop-Sign Subcommittee, One Member Short. Also in this edition: . https://misquahpilot.com/issue-23.html https://misquahpilot.com/issue-23.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Council Tables Fourth Stop Sign for Third Straight Meeting. Also in this edition: . https://misquahpilot.com/issue-22.html https://misquahpilot.com/issue-22.html Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Council Hears From Man About Geese, At Length. Also in this edition: Opener Yields Few Fish, Many Stories; Oakview Names Trout, Against Advice; Road Crew Paints Center Line Around Turtle; Eunice Reviews Rhubarb Bars From Three Kitchens; Pike Softball Splits Doubleheader, Eats All Orange Slices; Earl Magnuson, 88. https://misquahpilot.com/issue-21.html https://misquahpilot.com/issue-21.html Tue, 26 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Fishing Opener Draws Hundreds to the Chain. Also in this edition: Pavilion Roof Fund Reaches Year Fourteen; Pike Track Team Places at Regionals; Our View: Let the Dock Committee Be a Dock Committee; Memorial Day Program Moved Indoors, Then Back Out; Loon Pair Claims Buoy, Ignores Resort Brochure; Legion Practice Begins Under One Working Light. https://misquahpilot.com/issue-20.html https://misquahpilot.com/issue-20.html Tue, 19 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ice Officially Out; Last Bet Settled at Tim’s. Also in this edition: Spring Cleanup Removes Three Docks, One Mistakenly; Lutefisk Supper Date Set; Mosquito Index Moves From Theoretical to Personal; Fifth Grade Wax Museum Features Three Paul Bunyans; Pike Baseball Rained Out, Then Discussed Anyway; Our View: Paint the Lines Before the Parade. https://misquahpilot.com/issue-19.html https://misquahpilot.com/issue-19.html Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Opener Arrives Cold, Clear, and Selective. Also in this edition: Town Debates Stop Sign, Continued From 1957; Loons Return to Big Pelican on Schedule; Hardware Store ‘Open Most Days’ Again; Mother’s Day Brunch Exhausts Both Waffle Irons; Band Concert Ends With Sousa, As Intended; Pike Softball Practices Around Puddle. https://misquahpilot.com/issue-18.html https://misquahpilot.com/issue-18.html Tue, 05 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Chain Braces for Saturday’s Fishing Opener. Also in this edition: Landing Lot Lines Repainted; Debate Begins Immediately; Bait Shop Minnow Count Reaches ‘Plenty’; Third Grade Trout Release Scheduled for Later This Month; Eunice Packs Emergency Opener Sandwiches; Pike Baseball Waits for Field to Firm Up; Our View: Let the Opener Be What It Is.