“Where the coffee’s hot, the lakes are cold, and all the children are above average.” — Serving the Chain since 1897.
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 · 9 item(s) in this section.
Schools
Lakeside opened Wednesday before Labor Day for the first time in district history, ran three days, closed for the holiday, and started again this morning. Enrollment is 412. Nobody was late on Wednesday and eleven people were late today.
Read the full story →The Hagen Pasture
Clerk Donna Skoglund found the error herself while assembling the council packet. The planning board met Thursday to decide whether to correct it and voted 4–1 to leave it exactly as adopted.
Read the full story →The Hagen Pasture
Two lots, a redrawn plat, and one number the developer says he can live with. A plain accounting of the difference between what was proposed and what was adopted.
Read the full story →State Fair · 4-H
Final placings for the Misquah 4-H delegation, posted at the extension office as they arrived. Nobody won a purple. Two came close, one came home annoyed, and Christopher Jonson aged out on a Sunday afternoon.
Read the full story →Labor Day
Twelve days of State Fair ended at nine Monday night. The trailers were back by eleven, the campers by Tuesday noon, and one household is still missing a cooler.
Read the full story →Milestones
Three separate roof funds — First Lutheran’s basement, the pavilion, and the rec warming house — pass fourteen years today. One of them has a beer attached to it now.
Read the full story →The November Ballot
The city clerk’s office begins issuing absentee ballots a week from Friday. Two council seats drew three candidates; one school board seat drew none and will be filled by write-in or appointment.
Read the full story →County Fair
The fair board holds its postmortem at the grounds office at 7. Attendance was the best since 2016; the ice failed Thursday at noon; and there is a letter about the Forest Club building.
Read the full story →County 12
The Paulson sweet-corn stand finished its sixtieth season and its first without Arvid. Dale opened at six every morning it ran, as instructed.
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