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Win Prizes For Eating At Local MN Ice Cream Shops This Summer Explore Minnesota is encouraging people to check out local ice cream shops this summer through The Minnesota Scoop program. (Wait, did someone say ice cream? I'm in.) Get your Scoop punch card when you visit one of Minnesota's 43 local ice cream shops on the map. Once you get your card punched at six locations you're eligible to win prizes! Get our free mobile app This sounds like the best summer bucket list ever. Prizes up for grabs include a Minnesota travel prize package, a t-shirt and other weekly giveaways throughout the su...

Region’s rural food shelves see unexpected drop as food stamp use rises Kelly Smith, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/Elizabeth Flores, Star Tribune/Star Tribune/TNS Turtle Lake Food Pantry volunteers from left, Dawn Nelson, Wayne Kendrick and food pantry director Sheldon Fredrick prepared to load up a car last week. The food shelf has been serving fewer than it did before the pandemic. Carl Klienschmidt braced for a rush of residents in need of help at his western Wisconsin food pantry. But surprisingly, the opposite happened. In the tiny town of Turtle Lake, the...

Copy shortlink: Carl Klienschmidt braced for a rush of residents in need of help at his western Wisconsin food pantry. But surprisingly, the opposite happened. In the tiny town of Turtle Lake, the volunteer-run pantry is serving fewer people than pre-pandemic, bucking the national trend of growing hunger. Across the border in Minnesota, Christi Dickey is also still waiting for the surge in need she and other volunteers expected at Fergus Falls' food shelf. "We've been scratching our heads just wondering what's going on," she said. It's a puzzling paradox at a time when...

9 Central MN Coffee Roasters to Support Your Caffeine Fix Notice that I didn't say I  am a coffee snob but that I  want to be a coffee snob. I'm a penny-pincher, and for most of our married life my wife and I have been drinking cheap coffee -- Aldi brand or whatever's cheapest at Target. At my lowest point, I've even bought bags of resale coffee from Marshall's (don't...just don't). Last year, I developed an ongoing case of acid reflux, and -- while I haven't specifically narrowed down the cause -- a good guess would be that I was drinking bad coffee. So, around the holidays, I made a c...