“Where the coffee’s hot, the lakes are cold, and all the children are above average.” — Serving the Chain since 1903.
City Council
Matter referred to a subcommittee that does not yet exist; Mayor reminds all present there is no rush.
MISQUAH — The corner of Birch Street and Second Avenue will keep its three stop signs and one bare post for at least another month, after the City Council voted 4–1 Monday night to refer the question of a fourth sign to a subcommittee that does not, at present, exist.
It was the third straight meeting at which the matter has been tabled. By the count of City Clerk Donna Skoglund, who has kept the council’s minutes since 1994, it was “the eleventh time overall, give or take, depending on whether you count the stretch in the eighties when we just let it ride.”
The intersection, where two residential streets meet on the east side of town, has operated with three stop signs since 1957. The fourth corner — the southeast one, in front of the late Einar Erickson’s mailbox — has never had a sign, and by long habit drivers stop there anyway, a custom Skoglund recorded in the minutes as “self-enforcing, mostly.”
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Tradition
First Lutheran Church served 214 plates at its annual spring lutefisk and meatball supper Saturday, a parish record that narrowly surpassed the 211 served in 1998 and prompted what the Rev. More →
The Library
The Misquah Public Library opened its summer reading program Monday, though one participant had already finished the part involving bears before the program officially began. More →
Commerce
Tim Brevik installed a new 200-gallon minnow tank at Tim’s Bait & Liquor on Thursday, retiring a unit that had been in service since 1979 and that, in its owner’s words, “developed a personality toward the end.” More →
The Opener, Three Weeks On
Three weeks into the season, the walleye fishing on the Chain of Lakes remains good, and the accounts of it remain, as they tend to this time of year, considerably better than good. More →
Public Notice
The Mud Lake Property Owners’ Association held its annual meeting Tuesday evening in the back room of the Daybreak Café. More →
The Resort
Loon Ridge Resort & Golf opened its eighteen-hole course for the season over Memorial Day weekend, drawing the usual influx of guests from the Twin Cities and the usual congregation of Canada geese to the seventh fairway. More →
Summer Rec League
The Lakeside Pike opened their summer recreation softball season Saturday with a 7–4 win over the Pinedale Pioneers, in a game decided in the fifth inning by a fly ball, a chain-link fence, and a dispute over who had the standing to rule on either. More →
Legion Baseball
The Misquah Post 162 Legion baseball team opened its season here Friday night with a 6–2 loss to Pinedale, a result Post 162 manager Sonny Dahl attributed to “a long bus, a short bench, and one very tall outfield fence in left.” More →
Lakeside High
Lakeside High School graduated its Class of 2026 on Friday evening, sending thirty-eight seniors across the gymnasium stage in green and gold before a crowd that filled the bleachers and spilled into the hallway by the trophy case. More →
Oakview Elementary
Mrs. More →
Prairie View Middle
The annual Prairie View Middle School science fair concluded Wednesday with first prize going, for the forty-fifth consecutive year, to a baking-soda volcano. More →
Editorial · Our View
There is a movement afoot in Misquah, advanced with the best of intentions and the worst of timing, to install a fourth stop sign at the corner of Birch Street and Second Avenue. More →
Guest Column · From the Landing
It has come to my attention, as it does every year around the second week of June, that a great many people on this Chain of Lakes do not know how to wave from a boat. More →
From the Archives · 50 Years Ago
Each week this column draws from the bound volumes of the Pilot-Independent kept in the back room of our office on Birch Street — volumes our pressman, Earl, has promised to organize since the Ford administration, and to which, in fairness, he has lately added a second shelf. More →
Living · Eunice’s Kitchen
People write to this column, and I am grateful for it, truly. More →
Obituary
Orville Theodore “Ole” Tollefson, 91, of Misquah, died Thursday, June 4, 2026, at his home, surrounded by his family. More →
