Troubled Stillwater theater to get new owner
The Manitou Fund says it will buy the Zephyr Theatre, which closed amid mounting debt and fraud allegations.
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The Manitou Fund says it will buy the Zephyr Theatre, which closed amid mounting debt and fraud allegations.
Leaders and former employees of the Stillwater theater that collapsed last fall are now embroiled in legal fallout.
The Zephyr Theatre met a need for performing arts in the St Croix Valley.
The group's haunted trolley tours will continue this season.
Ice Palace Maze A Big Hit in Stillwater Ice Palace Maze opened last weekend and runs through the end of February. Spokesman Bil MacLeslie says the Zephyr Theatre in Stillwater decided to build the maze as a fundraiser after being shut down for months due to COVID-19 restrictions. He says they wanted to do an outside event that was interactive. The response has been overwhelming. We sold out last weekend about a week and a half before it started and that was 2,500 attendees. The phone has been ringing off the hook. We're amazed by the response. MacLeslie says they've added weekdays to try...