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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
Saving the Peeps: Second in a series of videos exposing Peeps abuse
“I remember driving to the morgue with Jim to conduct a Peep autopsy with a real medical examiner and laughing out loud as he was brainstorming all th
Treasure Hunt: Clue writer James Goodhue IV returns to berate medallion hunters
He left the Pioneer Press in 2011 to return to the Star Tribune to cover the Capitol. He stopped working earlier this year because of his illness.Pers
Holly Jolly Ragsdale
Rachel Stassen-Berger, a reporter for the Star Tribune and longtime friend, organized the caroling flashmob. She said Ragsdale “traveled the cancer jo

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,

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

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
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