“Where the coffee’s hot, the lakes are cold, and all the children are above average.” — Serving the Chain since 1897.
Tuesday, August 18, 2026 · 8 item(s) in this section.
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The canvas came off the sign on Second Avenue at four minutes past two Saturday afternoon — after the knot declined to give and a pocketknife was produced by the hardware store — and the Chain’s first taproom turned out to be named for the one lake nobody defends but two people.
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The Klatch’s sealed list of sixty-one guesses traveled four blocks Saturday and was read aloud at the bar. The Mud Lake faction — four people who have been laughed at in this town for a decade — went four for four.
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For a year the Holts have referred to the argument over the name and refused to describe it. With the sign up, they finally did — and it turns out it was one argument, conducted over eleven months, that Annika Holt won with a single observation about how people around here count.
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The food “by arrangement with a neighbor” that the Holts declined to identify for a month turned out to be exactly who the whole town had already decided it was. Mateo and Sofia Martinez sold out at 5:40 and stayed until eight.
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Band camp closed Thursday with a program Director Moe held to under an hour, one number conducted by a man who has been retired eleven years, and a migration afterward to the public landing that nobody organized and everybody joined.
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The file that began in July with a handful of letters and grew into two drawers takes its last additions today. The planning board meets a week from tonight; the clerk has been at the window since eight.
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The county fair opens tomorrow morning with judging in the exhibit halls. Quilts arrived Thursday, jars have been arriving since Sunday, and by dark tonight the tables will be full and the fair board will go home to sleep badly.
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The Holts put a can on the bar for the Legion’s light-tower fund on opening day and emptied it twice. With the pledge from Year Fourteen Stout, the fund has moved more in one weekend than in the previous two summers combined.
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