Jim Ragsdale, former Pioneer Press reporter and Treasure Hunt clue writer, dies
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By MARY DIVINE | mdivine@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressEveryone in the Twin Cities news business admired Jim Ragsdale for his gentle wit and seamles
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Medallion hunt was 'fun adventure,' winner says
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By Amber Kispert-SmithVanessa Schulte looked down, and there it was.The Woodbury resident found the Woodbury Days Medallion just after 9 a.m. Friday,
2011WoodburyMedallionFinder.jpg, Vanessa Schulte displays the 2011 Woodbury Days medallion, which she found Friday morning at Carver Lake Park.
Stillwater’s Lumberjack Days festival moves inland as St. Croix River floods
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20101208__101209lumberjack-lede.webp, Diane Thompson is pictured with a poster that promoted Stillwater s Lumberjack Days in 1968, the year Thompson and her husband, Bob, spearheaded the r
By MARY DIVINE | mdivine@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThe rising St. Croix River is forcing Lumberjack Days, Stillwater’s popular summer festival,
Cash and bragging rights awaiting medallion finder
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By: Cody Zustiak Is it under that tree? Or is it inside of that slide?The wonderful aspect of Summerfest's Medallion Hunt is that one needs to be a st
Sainted & Tainted
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By PIONEER PRESS | news@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThoughtlessly green? Sainted: Cub Foods for building its beautiful store on the East Side at M
Coon Rapids’ Snowflake Days medallion found
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by Peter BodleyManaging editorBetty Vandenheuvel has been a successful medallion hunter since she was a child growing up in St. Paul.Betty Vandenheuve
Remains of St. Paul's Winter Carnival bulldozed
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20110210_033158_snowdemo-sawyerafter.webp, Remains of St. Paul’s Winter Carnival bulldozed Thursday at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.
By JOHN BREWER | Pioneer PressWhat took nearly 60 sculptors two and a half days to create took Coco and his bulldozer about an hour to destroy.The 18
A wedding fit for a king and queen
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20110204__110205royalwed1.webp, Charlie Hall and Dorothy Arneberg Furlong are to be wed February 5, 2001 in Rice Park...as part of the Winter Carnival festivities. Photographed in Ri, 20110204__110205King.webp, King Boreas 1983 Charlie Hall, pictured here during his reign over the Winter Carnival, will marry Dorothy Arneberg Furlong, Queen of the Snows 1995, , 20110204__110205Queen.webp, Dorothy Arneberg Furlong, Queen of the Snows 1955. The former queen will be marrying a former king -- Charlie Hall, King Boreas 1983 -- during a weddi, 20110204_101946_110105TorchlightParadeRoute.webp
By JOHN BREWER | Pioneer PressDorothy Arneberg Furlong and Charlie Hall will once again hold court over the St. Paul Winter Carnival — if only for a f
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By MARY ANN GROSSMANN | mgrossmann@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressWhatever happened to the portraits of Winter Carnival queens that hung in a hallway
A family of angels
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By PIONEER PRESS | news@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressNot once have I ever thought of sending a sainted note to acknowledge the goodness of the many