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Vol. CXXIII — No. 24  •  Misquah, Minnesota  •  The Chain of Lakes
Tuesday, June 16, 2026  •  One Dollar (Two if you take the crossword)
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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 1903.



Our View & Yours

Opinion

Editorial · Our View

Our View: Three Is a Sufficient Number

The new stop-sign subcommittee is one member short, and we would like to propose that it stay that way.

The town now has a subcommittee to study the corner of Birch and Second, and the subcommittee, as of Monday, has three members and an empty fourth chair.

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Open 5:30 a.m., bless us

The Daybreak Café

Bottomless coffee • Pie that ended a meeting

Hotdish daily • The Klatch convenes here

Main Street, you’ll smell it

Editorial · Our View

Our View: Leave the Post Be

The corner of Birch and Second has done its job for sixty-nine years. A fourth sign would only give it ideas.

There is a movement afoot in Misquah, advanced with the best of intentions and the worst of timing, to install a fourth stop sign at the corner of Birch Street and Second Avenue.

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Guest Column · From the Landing

On the Proper Way to Wave From a Boat

A modest treatise on the lake’s most important unwritten law, by a man who has watched it broken all summer.

It has come to my attention, as it does every year around the second week of June, that a great many people on this Chain of Lakes do not know how to wave from a boat.

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Letters to the Editor

To the Editor: I write once again regarding the geese on the seventh fairway at Loon Ridge. Last week one of them looked at me. I know how that sounds. I know exactly how it sounds. But it looked at me, and it knew, and I will not be returning until the matter is addressed.

— Name withheld, by his own urgent request

To the Editor: Regarding the proposed fourth stop sign — leave the post be. A man should be allowed one place in this world where nothing is decided.

— L. Bunde

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