Craft cideries cultivate apples, taste buds
25 Dec 2018
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Local orchards sell in fall only
To the trees at Sweetland Orchard, 2012 was the year of the false spring, an unmitigated disaster, but Gretchen Perbix would later come to see opportunity there, as well.
On St. Patrick’s Day that March, temperatures hit a record high 78, leading the apple trees at her orchard, just east of New Prague, to blossom early. Well into April, the weather did a characteristic about-face, and nightly temperatures plunged into the teens.
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Lake Connections receives 4 bids
Dec 24 2018The Lake County Board of Commissioners learned four entities submitted bids for Lake Connections, the county's municipal broadband project.
The initial bidding period ended Nov. 2 with Lake Partners, Hanson Communications, Mediacom Communications Corp. and Cooperative Light and Power (CLP) in Two Harbors submitting bids, along with a $100,000...
Thinking about a romantic farm wedding, marriage vows under a willow tree surrounded by acres of rolling green fields and dancing the night away in an enchanted barn?
Fiddler’s Green near Litchfield can make this dream come true.
Fiddler’s Green, at 63054 County State Aid Highway 11, opened...
Potential improvements down the road
Dec 21 2018As plans for future expansion in McGrath are underway, American Peat Technology (APT) and Aitkin County are in discussion about potential road improvements on a four-mile segment of Hwy. 26 near the proposed new peat processing facility. APT Vice President Peggy Jones and representative Courtney Bot gave an update during...
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