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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 · July 21 Edition · 6 stories item(s) in this section.
Arvid Paulson, 1937–2026
First Lutheran was full Saturday for Arvid Paulson’s service, and the sweet-corn stand on County 12 kept the schedule he would have kept — open at the usual hour, dark for two hours, and back at it by one, with the honor box where he left it.
Read the full story →Four Days Out
The brewery opens Saturday at 2 p.m. The Klatch sealed its list of name guesses Friday and surrendered it to the Daybreak’s coffee tin; it will be opened at the bar, in public, immediately after the canvas comes off.
Read the full story →Rec Department
Friday’s rescheduled first showing drew the biggest crowd in the series’ history, ran without a single mechanical failure, and was interrupted only once — by a meteor that arrived four nights early.
Read the full story →The Hagen Pasture
Written comment on the eighteen-lot plat closes at the clerk’s window Tuesday, August 18. The furniture conversation Donna Skoglund said she was not ready to have has been had, and resolved by purchase.
Read the full story →County Fair · Aug. 19–23
A record 412 entries arrive at the grounds next week. The schedule is set, the barn is full, the scale is certified, and the fair board has added one small thing it expects nobody to notice until they need it.
Read the full story →Thursday Night
The lawn concert that spent smoke week indoors goes back outdoors Thursday at 7 p.m., with a program Director Moe describes as “short on purpose” and a meteor shower scheduled to peak a few hours later.
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