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Hey Hey, Iron Range, time for the St. Louis County Fair
The St. Louis County Fair is this week, starting Thursday and running through Sunday at the fairgrounds in Chisholm. This is the “northern” St. Louis County fair, and I apologize for neglecting to discuss the southern one last week. The “North” is the Iron Range fair, the larger of the two, and the one that…
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Iron Range’s ‘Great Gatsby’ now probably regrets that nickname
Phil Falcone, the Chisholm native, jet-setting hedge fund manager and co-owner of the Minnesota Wild hockey team, was dinged for an $18 million fine for misuse of company funds. The Star Tribune detailed the story last week. We’ve mentioned Mr. Falcone here before, at the peak of his financial empire building in 2008. It was…
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Marge Simpson was an Iron Ranger?!!
Mind. Blown. Today’s “Eh?” column in the Duluth News Tribune discusses the obituary for the mother of Matt Groening, creator of the iconic and influential TV show “The Simpsons.” Simpsons fans learned a couple years ago that the “real Springfield” was Springfield, Oregon, near where Groening grew up. He has also revealed that Marge Simpson…
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Celebrating the dashed dreams that make Iron Range life
More Iron Range events this weekend, including Doc “Moonlight” Graham Days in Chisholm and Merritt Days in Mountain Iron. The Graham parade is Saturday at 11 a.m. in Chisholm. The Merritt parade is at 4 p.m. in Mountain Iron. Many other events are scheduled throughout the weekend in both cities. Moonlight Graham days is named…
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Fair caps the closing innings of an Iron Range summer
The famous St. Louis (Minn.) County Fair opens today at the fairgrounds in Chisholm and runs through Sunday. Dubbed the “Five Best Days of Summer” by, well, the people who run the fair, this spectacle is usually a signal of the end of another brief but memorable Iron Range summer. Find out more. I shared…
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KFAI profiles Range’s ‘Iron Lady’ Veda Ponikvar
Britt Aamodt of KFAI-Minneapolis profiled groundbreaking Iron Range newspaper publisher and civic leader Veda Ponikvar recently as part of the station’s series on Women’s History Month. The piece is about 30 minutes and gives you a good introduction to the Iron Range and the woman who rose from immigrant roots to great local and even…