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Giant Days brings back fan favorites for 39th year
Excitement for the 39th annual Giant Days celebration is growing as Le Sueur’s signature festival returns with fan-favorite activities like the Minn-E-Rods tractor pull, all-you-can-eat corn feed and the 5k run. In place of the usual teen night, the Le Sueur Lions Club is sponsoring a Family Fun Night to kick off Giant Days on Thursday, July 30 at American Legion Park. Rather than a dance this year, dfom 7-10:30 p.m. the night will feature bingo, chalk, a scavenger hunt and a movie showing. The first full day of festivities starts at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1. The park will feature a variety of food and drink vendors and bounce houses from Awesome Fiesta Jumpers. In an event that’s sure to get motors running, the Minn-E-Rods tractor pull will rip down the Legion Park track from 6-8 p.m. Then, audiences can catch all the country, rock and pop hits being performed live on the Agropur stage at 9 p.m. by IV Play. The festival opens bright and early at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 2 with Bloody Mary’s and mimosas presented by the Giant Days Committee. The pickleball torunament begins soon after at 8 a.m. while the Le Sueur Chamber
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34th Annual Minnesota State Pork Masters Golf Outing Teed Off Today (Monday)
FAIRMONT — Despite the heat there were plenty of golfers on hand at Interlaken Golf Club in Fairmont for the 34th Annual Pork Masters Golf Outing. The event teed off Monday morning but it got its start in 1992 through a partnership between the Martin County Pork Producers, local agribusinesses, and the Fairmont Area Chamber of Commerce. At the beginning they hoped to create a networking opportunity for pork producers and the agricultural industry and since the first event it has grown exponentially. Proceeds from the annual outing stay in the community, helping fund agriculture scholarships and pork promotion efforts. The tournament continues to attract golfers and sponsors from across Minnesota and neighboring states each year.
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Discover Fairmont’s Creative Side
Fairmont is home to a variety of creative spaces, performances and public art. From galleries and historic venues to murals, painted pig statues and the downtown street piano, there are many ways to experience the arts throughout the community. View All Arts & Entertainment ». Red Rock Center for the...
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34th Annual Minnesota State Pork Masters Golf Outing Teed Off Today (Monday)
FAIRMONT — Despite the heat there were plenty of golfers on hand at Interlaken Golf Club in Fairmont for the 34th Annual Pork Masters Golf Outing. The event teed off Monday morning but it got its start in 1992 through a partnership between the Martin County Pork Producers, local agribusinesses, and the Fairmont Area Chamber of Commerce. At the beginning they hoped to create a networking opportunity for pork producers and the agricultural industry and since the first event it has grown exponentially. Proceeds from the annual outing stay in the community, helping fund agriculture scholarships and pork promotion efforts. The tournament continues to attract golfers and sponsors from across Minnesota and neighboring states each year.
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Pioneering Minnesota seedswomen featured in library exhibit
IF CARRIE LIPPINCOTT, Emma White and Jessie Prior toured Buckham Memorial Library in Faribault, I expect they would appreciate not only what’s inside the library, but also outside. They were, after all, pioneering Minnesota businesswomen who ran successful seed companies at the turn of the 20th century. The trio...
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Metro Bus Driver David Peacock Takes First in Minnesota Bus Roadeo Small Division
St. Cloud's David Peacock, a DialaRide driver for Metro Bus, won the small bus division at Minnesota's bus roadeo competition last weekend, earning a spot in the international event in Seattle next April.
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Metro Bus Driver David Peacock Takes First in Minnesota Bus Roadeo Small Division
St. Cloud's David Peacock, a DialaRide driver for Metro Bus, won the small bus division at Minnesota's bus roadeo competition last weekend, earning a spot in the international event in Seattle next April.
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Metro Bus Driver David Peacock Takes First in Minnesota Bus Roadeo Small Division
St. Cloud's David Peacock, a DialaRide driver for Metro Bus, won the small bus division at Minnesota's bus roadeo competition last weekend, earning a spot in the international event in Seattle next April.
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Art Hounds: Handmade art, hometown laughs and scenic photography
From MPR News, Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what’s exciting in local art. Want to be an Art Hound? Submit here. Wheel Appeal. Lorrie Kummeth of Maple Grove has been attending the Minnesota Pottery Festival in Hutchinson...
Northfield News
Northfield's Vintage Band Festival will be bigger than ever as it turns 20
It started with a daydream. Paul Niemisto was sitting in a lecture hall in Oberwolz, Austria, when his eyes drifted to the window. Outside was a river, quaint Styrian buildings, the kind of scene that sticks with you. And it did. “I began thinking of my own quaint village with its river,” Niemisto said. Back in Northfield that same year, a group of self-described “graybeards and curmudgeons” would gather at the Contented Cow and ask a question that had no answer: “Why isn’t there an outdoor music festival in this town?” Niemisto sat listening. The question from the pub and the view from the Austrian window collided in his head and became the Vintage Band Festival. “It was meant to be a one-time-only occasion,” Niemisto said. That was 2006. Twenty years later, the Vintage Band Festival returns with 30 bands across four full days of musical time travel. The performances include two international acts, a bike parade and a fireworks show honoring America’s 250th birthday. The festival takes place on two stages next Thursday through Sunday at Bridge Square and Central Park, with additional performances at the Grand Event Center, three senior facilities, the public library, Imminent Brewing, Loon Liquor,
St. Peter Herald
MOMFest beats the heat with breakout concert series
If there was one thing hotter than the 10-day heat wave hitting St. Peter, it was the sounds at the Minnesota Original Music Festival. Despite hot and humid temperatures over the weekend, organizers reported the 5th annual festival had one of the event’s most robust crowds yet. “You can tell by the people that have filled up the park, there’s some excitement and enthusiasm about the musicians,” said MOMFest Organizer Eli Hoehn. “It started out on a high note and it’s gotten a little bit higher as we’ve had each musician cross the stage there.” The weekend-long festivities spotlighting and fostering the creation of original music kicked off on Thursday with the 48-Hour Band Challenge Draft. The event, which has birthed local acts like The Quantum Mechanics and Lady Mercury, assigns participants into randomly selected bands that have never played with each other before. From there, the bands had just two days to create a setlist of three songs themed around a particular artist. The part is simple: playing a song in the style of the artist who first performed it. The challenge escalates as the band must cover a song from another musician in that original artist’s style. The
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2026 Summer Read: The Keeper by Tana French
Hi, I’m Tara Shaw and I’m here to recommend a Summer Read for the HPPR Radio Reader’s Book Club. I currently live in Edina, Minnesota, but I grew up in Baldwin, KS and am a huge fan of HPPR and their programming. For my recommendation, I have...
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This Minnesota Children’s Museum Lets Kids Climb, Build, Splash, and Explore All Day
There is a place in southern Minnesota where a one-year-old and a ten-year-old can spend an entire afternoon together and both leave completely worn out. Kids climb through a towering tree fort, splash around an outdoor water play area, and dig into hands-on exhibits that feel more like adventures than lessons.
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Belle Plaine’s BBQ Days starts today!
The 68th Annual BBQ Days kicks off today!. Belle Plaine’s biggest summer festival will be returning to Union Square Park on July 17-19. There should be lots of red, white and blue for the Saturday parade at 12 p.m., as America’s 250 Years of Independence will be the theme, and Keith Heitkamp will be serving as grand marshal this year.
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This Viral Minnesota Cat Sanctuary Gives Stray Cats A Second Chance And Millions Are Watching
Somewhere in southern Minnesota, around 350 formerly feral cats are living their best lives, cage-free, well-fed, and surrounded by people who genuinely care about them. What started as a small operation has grown into something that millions of people across the country follow online every single day. The live streams,...