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The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating a fatal motorcycle crash that occurred the afternoon of March 28 on southbound Interstate Highway 35 near the intersection with State Highway 97.
The name of the person in the crash has not yet been released, but the State Patrol confirmed in media reports that the driver was fatally injured. The southbound highway has been closed until further notice.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Official details have not yet been released, but according to details emerging from witness reports, the driver of the motorcycle appeared to be traveling at a high rate of speed and may have been pursued by law enforcement before the crash occurred shortly after 2 p.m. The Times will post more information as it becomes available.

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A few weeks ago Minnesota’s Congressional delegation sparred in its annual “hotdish” contest. In a stunning victory, Colin Peterson’s Right to Bear Arms Hotdish took the top prize, while Republicans Tom Emmer and Jason Lewis tied for second. It’s the kind of humor we love – poking fun at our peculiar Minnesotan traits.
We make jokes about lime green Jell-O surprise at the church supper, we say “ya sure you betcha” on occasion (intentionally or not) and we cheer our football team with chants of “Skol.”broadstreet.zone(48036);
We trace those eccentric ethnic traits back to our first influx of immigrants in the late 1800s and the early 1900s. People from Scandinavia, Germany and Ireland flocked to the Midwest to find farmland and jobs in factories. Finnish and Slovakian miners settled in the Iron Range. These immigrants built homes, barns, churches and schools. They farmed the land, dug in the mines, filled the mills

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Submitted photoMadelynn Silvera sold 1,504 boxes of Girl Scout cookies in 2016 to become part of the top 1 percent of sellers in the Minnesota River Valley Council.
Ten-year-old Madelynn Silvera had spent several of her young years selling Girl Scout cookies. Her typical sales were about 200 boxes per season, although she was always intrigued by the booklet that told of the prizes Scouts could receive for sales of 1,000 or more. Last year, she came home to her mother and decidedly stated that she was going to be a big prize winner.
“I knew that 1,000 boxes was a lofty goal and this was going to be a very large commitment, but seeing the determination in my daughter’s eyes, I knew we had to give it a shot,” Madelynn’s mom, Jennifer Silvera, said.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Madelynn began with some after-school door-to-door sales, but she quickly realized that it just wasn’t enough to get

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During the week of Feb. 20, Forest Lake Elementary hosted a Science Residency program with The Works Museum. Each year on a rotating basis, FLE hosts a weeklong residency program related to music, art, or science. The Works Museum units will help extend activities in the classrooms that are connected to each specific grade level and their content standards. The fourth grade will be focusing on the unit of super circuits and will experiment with the components of simple circuits such as power, loads, and switches. Students constructed and wired a motor-powered fan to take home.
Fifth graders worked with motor power and dug into what is inside a motor and how it works. They used magnets and electricity to build and experiment with “The World’s Simplest Motor” and created a crazy wigglebot to take home.broadstreet.zone(48036);
The sixth grade class tackled the unit of mixing molecules where they identified mystery chemicals by

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Mitchell Clemens of Forest Lake was named the Champion Swine Showman at the Livestock Showmanship Contest at North Dakota State University.

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