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Tuesday, September 1, 2026 · 9 item(s) in this section.
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After six weeks, sixty-six written comments, two file drawers, one full public hearing and a special meeting that used almost every chair again, the planning board recommended conditional approval of the Hagen-pasture subdivision. It is not a final approval, and everybody in the room knew the difference.
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The summer reading finale ended with certificates, melting ice cream, one green pen and the answer to a blank space the library had been guarding for three weeks.
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The county-record pumpkin did not place at the State Fair. C. Bjornstad stood beside pumpkins that made his look reasonable, filled three notebook pages, and came home pleased to have been made small.
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The dairy-barn sweep from Pine County became a State Fair week of long classes, respectable placings and homework on an aunt’s kitchen table in Roseville.
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Seven women drove south to see the quilt they spent roughly four hundred hours making. It is not in competition. This did not prevent a complete evaluation of the display.
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The Sunday after the county fair did what it always does: emptied the resort faster than housekeeping could turn the rooms, even with Labor Day still a week away.
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Lakeside opens Wednesday under the Legislature’s temporary waiver, becoming the first pre-Labor Day start in district history. Thirty-one kindergartners begin in two sections; eleven 4-H students begin from St. Paul.
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The midway left overnight, the livestock barns were swept by Wednesday, and the new shade fly has been folded into the pavilion inventory. Eleven borrowed tables have gone home. Number twelve remains under discussion.
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The opening-day line is gone, the Friday taco-truck arrangement is now routine, and the Holts have reached the stage of a new business where the town has started complaining about ordinary things.
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