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The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado touched down in southern Ramsey County on Saturday night, and additional tornados briefly touched down in Burnsville, Apple Valley, Eagan and West. St. Paul.
Jan Farmer collects debris along the shoreline of Stump Sound at Morris Landing Clean Water Preserve in Holly Ridge. Photo: Dylan Ray Last month, a grassroots group of volunteers walked around Sneads Ferry and collected 34 bags of trash by hand. After a couple of hours, their haul weighed in at a whopping 680 pounds. The group calls itself Debris Free Sneads Ferry, and it was organized and led by Hannah Faith Kushner. Kushner, of Sneads Ferry, said she considers litter in the area to be a tremendous problem. Debris Free Sneads Ferry is just one of a handful of emerging efforts to clean up the...