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In A New York Minute book cover.

This Valentine’s Day, if you’re looking for a romantic read in the spirit of all the best New York rom-coms, check out In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer.

Celebrate the chilly season with the Wayzata Chilly Open (and maybe a cup of chili). The event returns with three nine-hole ice-golf courses for those willing to take on the challenge.

There’s a new band in town: The Mama’s Boys—a vocalist, two guitarists and a drummer—play classic rock at shows around the lake area. Nothing too special, right?

Beverly Gillen knows the difficulties of navigating college prep. She has two adult daughters whom she helped through the planning process.

In The Road Back to Sweetgrass, first-time novelist Linda LeGarde Grover weaves a captivating story, of three American Indian women living in northern Minnesota on the fictional Mozhay Point reservation.

During a period when racism was prominent and Jim Crow laws were at their peak, Marshall “Major” Taylor, a black cyclist, rose above it all to become one of the most popular athletes in the world during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

When lake-area residents Randy and Shelly Chesley first laid eyes on the home in the Casco Point neighborhood of Orono, they knew right away it was their dream house. 

Shorewood resident Marnie Karger is not your typical cartographer. She is an artist whose work is inspired by maps, in particular “bathymetric” maps, or maps representing the varying depths in bodies of water. But Karger didn’t always think she would make a living as an artist.

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