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Kylie Hart, Floodwood in running for Minn. Volleyball player of year
Kylie Hart, Floodwood, is a candidates for the Minnesota High School Volleyball Players of the Year for 2022. As of Friday morning Hart was the top vote getter. She is one of 15 nominees. Voting is underway and will conclude Friday, December 2 at 11:59 p.m. and the winner will be…
Read More150 years ago speech helped create Proctor
Proctor missed another important historic date. It was 150 years ago on January 27, 1871 James Proctor Knott delivered a satirical speech in the House known as Duluth! or The Untold Delights of Duluth. The speech ridiculed a bill subsidizing westward expansions of railroads. The speech is sometimes reprinted in collections of humorous speeches or…
Read MoreFighting for our newspapers
By U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar — On May 7th of last year, the Hastings Star Gazette printed its last issue. The paper’s first issue as The Hastings Independent was published in 1857, a year before Minnesota gained statehood. Generations relied on papers like this for local news—they told you who was born and who died, whose daughter just…
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