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Created: December 22, 2020 04:25 PM The ice was empty on a late December day at Fogerty Arena in Blaine due to Minnesota's COVID-19 restrictions on team ice sports. "It's a little eerie to not see kids running around and that constant business, this time of year, it's normally a busy time," John Benton, director of curling at Fogerty Arena, said. Fogerty Arena's nonprofit board just launched a fundraiser to help the arena stay open due to a year filled with various COVID restrictions and closures. "We're just hopeful that we can get to the other side of this whole thing for the ...

Lovers of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Minnesota's wild northern country may be familiar with the name Sigurd F. Olson.  Olson was born in Wisconsin in 1899, and moved to Ely, Minnesota in 1923 to take a job teaching at the junior college. He went on to pen environmental legislation, become the president of Wilderness Society and the president of the National Park Association, among other accomplishments.  But what really captured Olson's imagination, and propelled him through a lifetime of conservation work, was a love of writing.  Really grabbing your dream, and living the life you...

Zucker Giving Back This Holiday Season He joined NHL Network to discuss his latest charity initiative and more by Michelle Crechiolo @PensInsideScoop / Penguins Team Reporter Penguins forward Jason Zucker is known for giving back. So it's no surprise that he and his wife Carly found a way - and a holiday-themed one, at that - to help out those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In an NHL Network appearance on Thursday, Zucker e...