September 25
Sept. 25 Schedule Stays Put; Parking Now Enters the Discussion
A joint logistics meeting Monday produced agreement on two practical items and no change whatever to the four events that still overlap on the same…
The Grouse Opener
Grouse Opener Finds Birds Behind a Lot of Leaves
Hunters reported plenty of noise and fewer clean looks Saturday as the woods went into the season still mostly green. The birds are there. So is everything else.
By Tim Brevik • September 15, 2026
The grouse season opened Saturday at daylight and the woods were, by the nearly unanimous report of people who spent the weekend in them, full of birds nobody could see.
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County Fair
Fair Board Sets Aug. 18–22 for 2027, Sends the Ice Machine to a Winter Decision
The postmortem ran ninety minutes, recorded the best attendance since 2016, and declined to buy anything in September that can be bought better in…
The November Ballot
Absentee Voting Opens Friday; Sample Ballot Is Up at City Hall
The clerk has the materials ready. Three candidates are running for two council seats, two are running unopposed for school board, and one school…
Second Avenue
A Month In, Mud Lake Starts Learning Its Saturdays
Fifty-nine Friday, a hundred and four Saturday, forty-six Sunday. The brewery marked four weeks by opening at noon and running out of stout, which is…
The Loons of Big Pelican
SEPT. 14 — ONE.
The remaining juvenile was on the water Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning. That is the whole report.
The Fishing Report
Sixty-Two Degrees, and the Minnows Have Taken Over
Tim Brevik on the second week of September: water down two more, walleye still on the breaks and eating harder, panfish worth the trip, and the…
The Daybreak
The Grouse Sheet Needed a Second Page by Sunday
Pat Reinholt did not put the first one up and has now put the second one up, which she describes as the natural history of a piece of paper in that…
Pike Football
Pike Finishes One: 21–13 Over Hinckley in the Home Opener
Pike led 14–7 at the half, watched Hinckley get within a point in the fourth, and then did the thing this team did not do at Braham, which is score…