Plymouth man puts his own twist on birdhouses Inside Dan Arnold’s bitterly cold shop on the shores of Mooney Lake in Plymouth, sits a bucket of stained glass scraps awaiting his next creation. “That’s a birdhouse,” he said, of the scraps his artist friend gave him. The idea is still in the conception phase, and […]
Richfield High School took a page out of the junk food marketing playbook when it opened the school year with a spruced-up cafeteria. But don’t worry, school lunch clerks weren’t pushing Snickers and Ho Hos. Their goal, instead, was to increase consumption of fruits and vegetables, and they succeeded, according to Pam Haupt, the district’s […]
On Valentine’s Day in 2012, Susanna Gorodisher was about to give her husband a box of chocolates, when she made a choice that would change their lives. She looked at her pre-diabetic husband, Ilya — whose weight kept rising despite exercise — and she turned around and hid the chocolates in a cupboard. Instead of […]
Matt Ratliff and his wife Chrissy are not originally from the Fort Ripley area. In fact, they grew up in St. Cloud with little to no agricultural background. However, that hasn’t kept them from becoming one of the most productive mushroom farms in the state of Minnesota while also developing a business as suppliers of […]
By Nicole Brodzik When she first told her parents she was starting work on her cook book, “Lake Minnetonka Eats”, Tiffany Winter’s parents told her it was a waste of her time. Now, though, Bill and Mary Winter are fully supportive of their daughter’s project, especially after it was recently named the 2016 Independent Publisher […]