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Vol. CXXIX — No. 36  •  Misquah, Minnesota  •  The Chain of Lakes
Tuesday, September 8, 2026  •  September 8 Edition
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The Voice of the Chain of Lakes

The Misquah Pilot-Independent

“Where the coffee’s hot, the lakes are cold, and all the children are above average.” — Serving the Chain since 1897.



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Tuesday, September 8, 2026 · Current Edition

News

City hall, school, State Fair, and the ordinary public business that keeps a small town moving.

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Typed planning minutes beside a handwritten motion on the city clerk counter
Typed minutes sit beside the handwritten half sheet that turned an 18 into a 16 before the planning board voted. — Pilot-Independent photo

The Hagen Pasture

The Motion Says Sixteen: A Handwritten 8, Read Aloud as a 6, Is Now the Official Record

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.

MISQUAH — The recommendation the planning board sent forward on August 25 is for sixteen lots, not eighteen, and it has been for two weeks, and nobody knew until Clerk Donna Skoglund proofread her own minutes against the recording last Wednesday afternoon.

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First State Bank

Local decisions, local desks, and a lobby clock that runs two minutes fast.

Sorensen Hardware

Forty years on Main Street. Open Monday through Saturday.

Daybreak Café

Breakfast before the meeting. Coffee after it.

Subdivision plat drawing partly unrolled on an office table

The Hagen Pasture

What Sixteen Changes

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.

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