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Arrowhead Senior Nutrition menu: Friday, Feb. 26 Boiled Dinner, frosted cake Sat-Sun, Feb. 27-28 Frozen meals available Monday, March 1 Glazed ham balls, fresh fruit Tuesday, March 2 Roast pork dinner, strawberry cheesecake cup Wednesday, March 3... Full story

Sunday, Feb. 28 Music with Two for the Road 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28 at the Cloquet VFW. 218-210-7793 or 879-5717. Tuesday, March 2 Antique appraisals with Steve Wesely of Cresent Auctioneering 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 2 at the Fires of 1918 Museum,... Full story

Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. Sept. 11 1971 The first Minnesota Renaissance Festival opens at Lake Grace in Jonathan. One of the largest of its kind, the festival now operates from a permanent encampment near Shakopee. The...

Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. Sept. 4 1908 A forest fire burns Chisholm, causing millions of dollars in damage and leaving 6,000 homeless. 1939 Duluth’s Incline Railway makes its final trip. Built in 1891 for $400,000, it ha...

Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. August 28 1977 Lake City’s Ralph Samuelson, the “father of water-skiing,” dies. In 1922 Samuelson had successfully tested water skis on Lake Pepin, having fashioned the skis by boiling and c...

Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. Aug. 7 1915 Towed by the Ottumwa Belle, the last log raft passes from Minnesota and into Iowa. It was the last of just two runs on the river for the season. The sawmills along the river soon...

Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. July 24 1998 Pitcher Ila Borders of the Duluth-Superior Dukes is the first woman to win a men’s regular season professional baseball game. . July 25 1990 The U.S. Senate votes 96-0 to d...

Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. July 11 1999 Duluth’s state representative Willard Munger dies of liver cancer at age 88. He had served in the Minnesota House since 1955 and was known as Mr. Environment for his reputation a...

Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. July 3 1863 Minnesota’s first railroad fatality: a train strikes a wagon driven by Captain Abraham Bennett and his son at the Como Road crossing in St. Paul. There had been talk of building a b...

Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. June 26 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth II open the St. Lawrence Seaway in an official ceremony in Montreal. The seaway connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean,...

Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. June 19 1852 Congress passes a resolution changing the name of St. Peter’s River to a form of its original Dakota name, Mni Sota, or Minnesota. It is translated as “waters that reflect the sky...

Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. June 5 1885 The Western Appeal (later the Appeal), the first Minnesota-published African American newspaper to gain national readership, premieres, edited by Frederick D. Parker. June 6 1945...

Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. May 1 1933 Prompted by Gov.Floyd B. Olson, the Minnesota legislature passes an emergency law stopping farm foreclosure sales. The Great Depression and the dust bowl had hurt farmers throughout...

Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. April 17 1990 The Minnesota State Lottery begins selling instant tickets. Within four months, sales reach $100 million. 1997 The Red River crests at 39.5 feet, 22.5 feet above flood stage at...

Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. April 11 1680 Father Louis Hennepin, exploring the Mississippi River north from Illinois by canoe, is captured by a group of Dakota. During his captivity he sees the Falls of St. Anthony, which...

Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. March 27 1905 The Aerial Bridge, spanning the Duluth shipping canal, carries its first passengers across the harbor inside a carriage suspended from the bridge framework. The system would be...

Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. March 14 1919 Humorist Max Shulman is born in St. Paul. An author and Hollywood screenwriter, he is best remembered for creating the character Dobie Gillis. Shulman died in 1988. March 15 1927...