The Boardwalk Bar and Grill intends to appeal the ruling. 7:19 pm, Dec. 22, 2020 ×
The Boardwalk Bar and Grill in East Grand Forks stayed open despite a state lawsuit and subsequent restraining order on Friday, Dec. 11. The restaurant, like others in the city, is chafing under Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz s order banning dine-in meal service to slow the spread of a novel coronavirus. Joe Bowen / Grand Forks Herald
EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. A Polk County judge has ruled that the Boardwalk Bar and Grill in East Grand Forks must comply with Executive Order
20-99 and is prohibited from opening for dine-in services.
The Boardwalk Bar and Grill intends to appeal the ruling. 5:15 pm, Dec. 22, 2020 ×
The Boardwalk Bar and Grill in East Grand Forks stayed open despite a state lawsuit and subsequent restraining order on Friday, Dec. 11. The restaurant, like others in the city, is chafing under Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz s order banning dine-in meal service to slow the spread of a novel coronavirus. Joe Bowen / Grand Forks Herald
A Polk County judge has ruled that the Boardwalk Bar and Grill in East Grand Forks must comply with Executive Order
20-99 and is prohibited from opening for dine-in services.
The ruling comes weeks after the East Grand Forks restaurant opened its dining room in defiance of Walz s order closing hospitality businesses in the state to slow the spread of COVID-19. Walz’s order was recently extended until Jan. 11.
Makeover of Hopkins Cinema site appears to be on hold The discount movie house closed last month as a result of pandemic restrictions. December 21, 2020 8:08pm Text size Copy shortlink:
A plan to redevelop the site of the Mann Hopkins Cinema 6 into apartments and stores appears to be on hold.
Mann Theatres, a Twin Cities-based theater owner, announced last month that it was closing the six-screen theater, which had been a fixture on Main Street in Hopkins for 24 years.
And last week, the owner of the building, Beard Group Inc. in Hopkins, pulled back its plan to redevelop the site for a four-story apartment complex, with 131 units and retail on street level.
Dec 20, 2020
Doug Erickson and his wife Sue of Mankato Township are down to one jar of pennies â a narrow-topped bottle that they decided would take too much work to dig the coins out.
Doug and Sue Erickson needed the help of a younger friend and his commercial vehicle to deliver the pennies theyâd been collecting for nearly 42 years to a local hunger-relief effort. They dropped off their contribution Dec. 11 at the Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union branch in Mankato. Affinity employees Morgan Wuebker, right, and Kole Herrick, assisted in moving the 42,878 pennies into the credit union.Lee Bohrer
MANKATO â In a year of disease, economic recession and growing hunger, Doug and Sue Erickson of Mankato Township didnât make the biggest charitable donation to those in need.