“Where the coffee’s hot, the lakes are cold, and all the children are above average.” — Serving the Chain since 1897.
Tuesday, June 23, 2026 · June 23 Edition · 8 story item(s) in this section.
Community
An estimated nine hundred people lined Main Street Saturday for the Rainbow Walleye Parade. The thirty-seven neighbors it honored rode a flatbed behind a plywood fish Walt Sorensen built in his pole barn.
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Northwoods
A black bear made the four-hundred-yard crossing Saturday night, ate everything edible, and withdrew. The teenagers handled it better than their parents have since.
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Independence Day
Lineup at nine, fire truck last, fireworks over Big Pelican at dusk — and, new this year, a boat parade the committee has been planning since December. The rainbow walleye is invited back if Walt can get it out of the barn.
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City Council
The body that does not yet exist will now be assembled by a body that also does not yet exist. The bare post at Birch and Second enters its sixty-ninth summer unadorned.
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Northwoods
The café’s engineering held for nine days. The bear required four minutes and looked, witnesses said, faintly insulted it had taken that long.
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Main Street
The celebrated new tank developed a slow, determined leak by Monday, headed for the beer cooler. Two buckets have been deployed, and a third is on standby.
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Two weeks after the flushing ended, the calls continue — eight past the clerk’s prediction, every one from a house she’d already explained it to, in writing.
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No births and, this week, two deaths in the count window — so the pressman touched up the sign anyway, then touched it up again, against the day it has to change.
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