“Where the coffee’s hot, the lakes are cold, and all the children are above average.” — Serving the Chain since 1897.
Tuesday, August 11, 2026 · July 21 Edition · 2 stories item(s) in this section.
The Fishing Report
Tim Brevik on mid-August: walleye holding deep and biting early, panfish moving out of the shallows, one more report from the Bass Lake file, and the first honest hint that the year is turning.
Read the full story →The Loons of Big Pelican
Two weeks after the second flight, Big Pelican’s young loons are airborne most mornings and ranging farther each week. Greta Solberg has started a page in the back of the notebook she has titled, without elaboration, “Leaving.”
Read the full story →The week. Warm days, and the first genuinely cool nights of the year — fifties by morning twice, which is the sound of August clearing its throat.
Saturday. Bright and still for the service, the kind of day that makes a hayrack on a county road look like a photograph. Sold out by half past four.
Ahead. Clear through Thursday. Wednesday night is the meteor night, new moon, no interference; Thursday holds for the concert, mosquitoes committed.
Verdict. Very good, with a change in it. The light is coming later and the ducks are moving. — T.B.