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Tuesday, August 25, 2026 · 16 item(s) in this section.
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M. Aakre scratched Thursday with a split found on the shoulder of the pumpkin, leaving C. Bjornstad to roll onto a certified scale in front of two hundred people and win a war he has been fighting since June by not having to fight it. He did not enjoy it.
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The fair board counted 11,400 through the gates across five days — the best since 1986 — and lost, in Verna Tho’s accounting, one ice machine, one animal, and no children. Sunday’s rain arrived exactly late enough.
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Callie Tho’s market steer took grand champion Saturday afternoon in front of the biggest barn crowd in years, and the record fifty-eight-member 4-H roster sent seven animals and eleven exhibitors on to the State Fair.
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Maren, Greta, and Liv Vekved took grand champion dairy calf, cow, and steer in the same afternoon — the first sweep by one family in the barn’s memory — and all three animals load out Wednesday for St. Paul, where the girls have been before and their mother has stopped being nervous about it.
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A latch, a Thursday afternoon crowd, and one of the least urgent escapes in the history of American animal husbandry. He was located under the display case he had been sitting on top of, and was, per the Forest Club, “not even hiding, exactly.”
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The Friday night tractor pull drew standing room, ran until ten-forty, and ended the way it has ended more often than not since 2004 — with two men who have been trading this class back and forth their whole adult lives shaking hands at the sled.
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The demolition derby went off Sunday afternoon in a steady rain that turned the arena into something between a track and a stock pond, and the fair board reports the grandstand did not lose a single person to the weather.
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The Lions Club’s garden poured a record volume across the fair, helped considerably by a taproom eleven days old whose flagship went empty at 8:40 Saturday night and had to be resupplied by pickup truck.
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The fair parade ran eleven blocks Saturday at eleven, took thirty-eight minutes to pass a given point, and included — for the first time in its history — a brewery float, a porcupine sign, and a pumpkin on a flatbed.
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The sanctioned rodeo filled the grandstand Saturday night for the first time since the fair added it in 2019, and the fireworks that followed at 9:40 were, per the fire chief, “adequately supervised and slightly longer than budgeted.”
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Judged Wednesday, posted Wednesday evening, argued about since. The full list of first-place and champion awards across the open-class divisions, printed here as it is every year, with the pickle classes given the space they have earned.
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Seven women, four hundred hours, and one blue-green quilt that has been on a frame in the church basement since January. It was judged champion Wednesday and named to the State Fair’s exhibition display Thursday, which has not happened to a Misquah quilt since 1994.
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The board voted in March under a temporary state waiver. The superintendent says the alternative was teaching into mid-June. The resort says it is the difference between a season and most of one. Both of them are right, which is what makes it hard.
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Written comment closed a week ago at 4:30. The planning board takes up its recommendation on the eighteen-lot plat at 7 p.m. at city hall, in the room with the folding chairs, and the clerk has counted the chairs.
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The spiral notebook found near the bay in July, held at this office for four weeks and moved to the safe with the good pencils, went home Thursday afternoon with a woman who described the cover, the year the entries begin, and the first bird on the first page.
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Eleven 4-H members, seven animals, one champion quilt, one 894-pound vegetable, and an unknown but considerable number of people who will drive down for a day, complain about the parking, and eat something on a stick.
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