If you're into food, there are two festivals happening this weekend that should be on your to-do menu.
The Pine Island Cheese Festival runs Friday through Sunday and features food vendors, a duck race and the Cheese Festival Grand Parade.
If you're looking for something sweeter, head to Lanesboro for the Rhubarb Festival
on Saturday. Vote for your favorite recipes at the rhubarb tasting event, or see the rhubarb fashion show.
As always, I love hearing about the unique events you are looking forward to here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Send me an emailabout an upcoming weekend event or festival that matters to you and your community, and it might get featured in The 'sotan.
A program lets trained volunteers borrow a dog to go out for a run. It gets everyone — whether they have two legs or four — out for fresh air, and can give the dogs a better chance at a successful adoption.
Heather Boyd is the new superintendent of the Grand Portage National Monument. She is the first woman and first Anishinaabe person to hold the National Park Service position since the monument was established in 1958.
The MN DNR says it intends to rewrite its mining rules to better protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area from noise and light pollution by expanding a mining buffer zone around the wilderness.
Folk and blues legend Lead Belly’s Minneapolis private party
When Lead Belly turned up at a friend’s Minneapolis home and gave a short concert, it was a moment that could have been lost to music history — except that somebody decided to record it.
Do you have a story about a time you experienced 'Minnesota Nice'? We want to hear the many ways this Minnesota cultural phenomenon appears in our lives.
Rethos, a St. Paul-based historic preservation nonprofit, was awarded the Duluth Harbor North Pierhead Light by the National Park Service last month. The group plans to install interpretative signs around the lighthouse and open it to tours starting next summer. Guides will provide education on the history of the structure and the greater Duluth harbor area.
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