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St. Paul ice palace is born one block at a time on west-central Minnesota lake

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A Park Construction Co. employee monitors a recently cut block of ice harvested on Green Lake in Spicer, Minn., on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018. The ice bl
By CAROLYN LANGE | Forum News ServiceSPICER, Minn. — Wearing ice-covered boots and wiping away icicles from beards and noses, a crew of about 40 peopl
Gideon Doty cuts ice to be removed from Green Lake Wednesday in Spicer. (Erica Dischino / Forum News Service)
“It’s going great. The people around town have been awesome,” said Mike Gutknecht, from Park Construction, the general contractor for the project in w
Ice floats in Green Lake waiting to be removed by harvesters Wednesday in Spicer. (Erica Dischino / Forum News Service)
Being part of a once-in-a lifetime Super Bowl event that would put their home community on the map convinced them to do it.On Monday, they cleared sno
A recently cut block of ice harvested from Green Lake moves along an ice harvesting machine made in the early twenty-first century in Spicer Wednesday
“The clarity is above all,” he said. “The blocks are blue. They are very pretty.”Working from sunup to sundown, the crew has three days to get the blo

Ice Palace construction starts with a good cleaning

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An area of Green Lake near Spicer, Minn., is cleared of snow Monday, Jan. 1, 2018, in preparation for ice harvest. About 4,000 blocks of ice will be c, A team of people from Park Construction, Park Avenue Trucking, Xcel Energy and Wee Kut will take part in the ice block project. (Courtesy of Darrin Jo, An area of Green Lake near Spicer, Minn., is cleared of snow Monday, Jan. 1, 2018, in preparation for ice harvest. About 4,000 blocks of ice will be c, St. Paul Winter Carnival royalty Lindsay Jo Sandoval, Aurora Queen of Snows, left, and Jason Bradshaw, King Boreas, reveal an image of the 2018 St. Pa, The design for the ice palace that will be built in Rice Park. (Courtesy of the St. Paul Winter Carnival), he ice palace will be built on the south side of Rice Park. (Courtesy of the St. Paul Winter Carnival)
By JAIME DELAGE | jdelage@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressA construction crew for the St. Paul Winter Carnival ice palace will begin cutting blocks of
The St. Paul Winter Carnival unveiled the design for an ice palace that will be built in Rice Park as part of the 2018 St. Paul Winter Carnival. The p

Donors stepping up quickly to make the Winter Carnival ice palace happen

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By KATHY BERDAN | kberdan@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThe 2018 St. Paul Winter Carnival’s seven-story ice palace received a warm welcome when it w
The design for an ice palace that will be built in St. Paul’s Rice Park as part of the 2018 St. Paul Winter Carnival. (Courtesy of the St. Paul Winter
The People’s Ice Palace started to live up to its name after the plan was unveiled in the early afternoon. By 5 p.m. Thursday, the Winter Carnival web

Winter Carnival will have a seven-story ice palace, after all

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The St. Paul Winter Carnival unveiled the design for an ice palace that will be built in Rice Park as part of the 2018 St. Paul Winter Carnival. The p
By KATHY BERDAN | kberdan@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThough plans for a massive, record-breaking ice palace for the 2018 St. Paul Winter Carnival
The People’s Ice Palace will be built on the south side of St. Paul’s Rice Park. (Courtesy of the St. Paul Winter Carnival)
People looking for a way to be part of the People’s Ice Palace can “buy a block.” Prices start at $25 and the sponsorships are available at wintercarn

Stillwater ice castle underway along the St. Croix River

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Jake Telschow, an employee of Ice Castles LLC, places an icicle on the new ice castle under construction in downtown Stillwater on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2
By MARY DIVINE | mdivine@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThis week’s frigid temperatures are good for something: building a shimmering ice castle in d
Work continues on Thursday, Dec. 7. 2017 after crews began building an ice castle in downtown Stillwater this week. (Courtesy of Ice Castles LLC)
This year’s castle will feature a new design, three slides, a walk-through wall, fountains and mazelike tunnels.The 1-acre site is surrounded by the S

St. Paul hopes to draw Super Bowl crowd with giant snow slide downtown

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By FREDERICK MELO | fmelo@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressEven if you don’t have a ticket for the big game, the Bold North will welcome you to St. Pau
A giant snow slide at CHS Field will be among the St. Paul attractions leading up to Super Bowl 52 in February, officials with Visit St. Paul announce
Sara Remke, who runs the Black Dog Cafe in Lowertown with partners, said spillover from the Super Bowl crowds is tough to predict, but the beefed-up W
Science Museum of Minnesota employee Julie Marckel jumps as high as she can, testing her leaping ability in one of the interactive exhibits in the Spo
The Science Museum of Minnesota will feature a “Sportsology” exhibit, and the Minnesota Children’s Museum’s will feature “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,

Outstate ice palace moving forward — even though ‘St. Paul couldn’t get it done’

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The 2004 Winter Carnival Ice Palace was the first since 1941 that the public was able to walk through. The palace coincided with the 2004 National Hoc
By VICKI GERDES / FORUM NEWS SERVICEDETROIT LAKES, Minn. — When organizers behind the plans to build a “super-sized” ice palace for the 2018 St. Paul

St. Paul Winter Carnival’s Super Bowl ice palace canceled

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The 2004 Winter Carnival Ice Palace was the first since 1941 that the public was able to walk through. The palace coincided with the 2004 National Hoc, The 1992 St. Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palace on Harriet Island in St. Paul. (Pioneer Press: Richard Marshall)
By OLIVIA JOHNSON | Pioneer Press and NICK WOLTMAN | nwoltman@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThe specter of the financially ruinous 1992 ice palace s
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