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 Eagan Market Fest returns this summer with 12 nights of food, artisan items and live entertainment.
Part farmers’ market, part community festival, the weekly event hosted
by the city of Eagan runs from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays, July 1 through
Sept. 16, on the festival grounds at the Eagan Community Center.
See more in ThisweekLive story by Andrew Miller.
There’s no shortage of refreshments at Eagan Market Fest. Here, two youngsters enjoy the licking good tastes of some ice cream cones.
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The Minnesota Zoo achieved an all-time attendance record this past fiscal year.
In the 30 years the zoo has been open, it has never experienced attendance and membership levels so high, zoo officials said. See more in Serena Calder's ThisweekLive story.
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This is the time of the year when Americans celebrate patriotic themes.
It all began on July 4, 1776 in the city of Philadelphia when a small
group of men, suffering under the restraints of a European power 3000
miles away, and acting as the Second Continental Congress, declared
their 13 colonies to be free and independent of Great Britain. See more in Rev. John Blackford's column in the Forest Lake Times.
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Motorists on I-35 in Chisago County will encounter traffic delays
beginning July 7 when the Minnesota Department of Transportation begins
resurfacing on the road between North Branch and the Goose Creek Rest
Area (1.5 miles north of Harris).
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 A 64-year-old Coon Rapids woman accidently hit the accelerator pedal
instead of the brake pedal and slammed through the front of a Quiznos
restaurant in Coon Rapids during the Wednesday lunch hour. See more in Eric Hagen's ABC Newspapers story.
Jean Graff, 64, of Coon Rapids accidently hit the accelerator pedal
instead of the brake pedal in her 1997 Ford Expedition Eddie Bauer when
she was pulling into a parking spot and ran through the front of the
Quiznos restaurant in the Riverdale shopping center. (Photo by Tammy Luukonen, ABC Newspapers)
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A Blaine man was killed after being struck by a car while riding his bicycle Wednesday (July 1) afternoon.
The 60-year-old man was hit by a passenger car driven by a 32-year-old Ramsey woman. See more in Kelly Johnson's Blaine/Spring Lake Park Life story.
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There will be a fireworks display Friday, July 3, at dusk at the North Branch High School. The city of North Branch thanks the Perkins Restaurant for its generous donation which allowed the city to contract with Melrose
Pyrotechnics for the fireworks display.
Any additional donations that
are received will be placed in a restricted account to fund future
fireworks displays. -- ECM Post Review
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 After graduating high school some children join the family business. Others may attend a parent’s alma mater.
But if you’re a male Beimert, enlisting in the armed forces is pretty
much a given. Like his father and granddad, Tim Beimert answered the
call to duty. See more in Jennifer Larson's Forest Lake Times story.
Tim Beimert as grand marshal and his mother, Helen, as honorary
grand marshal, will lead the Forest Lake American Legion Post 225
Fourth of July parade at 10 a.m. on Saturday. (Photo By Jennifer
Larson, illustration by Jeanine Sass)
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The Houston County Criminal Justice Center (CJC), which has been in the
works for more than a dozen years, took a gigantic step towards
becoming a reality Monday night. The Caledonia City Council unanimously
approved five separate zoning requests to locate the CJC in downtown
Caledonia.
See more in Editor Charlie Warner's Caledonia Argus story.
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 A day after the close of the tightest election in state history
yesterday, the winner today (Wednesday, July 1) addressed several
hundred enthusiastic supporters at the Capitol.
Senator-elect Al Franken, D-Minneapolis, began his speech with a note of humor.
A victory rally for Senator-elect Al Franken was held at noon today at the head of the State Capitol Mall. Here, Sen.-elect Franken greets some of his many supporters. Franken yesterday was certified as the winner of the Nov. 4 U.S. Senate election over Norm Coleman. The election outcome had been held in the balance for eight months as the State Canvassing Board, a three-judge panel and the Minnesota Supreme Court looked at the matter and subsequent appeals. A few hundred loyal supporters attended the rally today.
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(Photo by T. W. Budig, ECM Capitol Reporter)
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