Kids of all ages were crashing and burning while sledding on Old Main Hill at St. Olaf yesterday afternoon. See the album of 18 photos, the large slideshow (recommended), or…
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Last week saw many stories in the media like this one from USA Today, Just one cigarette can harm DNA, Surgeon General says: Even brief exposure to tobacco smoke causes…
Cross-country skiing on the Ann Sipfle Memorial Ski Trail in Carleton’s Lower Arb yesterday was memorable. There were a few of us making the round trip from Lyman Lakes…
In a town with a thousand PhD’s, nobody refers to or addresses any of them with ‘Dr.’ or ‘Doctor.’ But for some reason, KYMN (example here) and the League of…
A friend pointed me to this poignant essay by David Marcus in last week’s NY Times: A Father’s Acceptance: His Son Won’t Be Following His Ivy Footsteps. At the time,…
I’m undecided on the issue. The School Board votes on Oct. 25. Background: District: Northfield Public Schools Board of Education Hosts Open House and Information Session on YMCA Facility Proposal…
I just saw an AP story on the NY Times website titled Gay Councilman’s Plea to Bullied Teens Goes Viral about this YouTube video (“Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns…
John Pauley from Prairie Restorations stopped by my office at GBM last week and told me about the pair of whooping cranes that he spotted in the Carleton Arb recently. …
Stephanie Schmidt, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies & Biology at St. Olaf, alerted me to today’s late morning effort to remove the fish that got trapped in downtown’s Riverwalk during the flooding.
Many of the trapped fish are carp, which are non-native and generally nasty fish for our waters. We’re unsure of what else has escaped to the calmer waters. It will be interesting to see. Anyway, if we end up moving fish, it might be a neat opportunity for you to get some more photos. Some of these carp are monsters.
Stephanie was prepared to use a ‘barge shocker’ but nets were enough to do the job.
I’ll have a short video of the operation later today but in the meantime, see my album of 18 photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow.