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• Moorhead orchestra students rock
  Moorhead orchestra students learn to rock and roll.March 16, 2007
• New life for the Gluek house
  The John G. and Minnie Gluek house is being sold for only the second time. Its new owners will move into a home that has been virtually untouched since its construction in 1902.March 16, 2007
• Flood recedes but tempers rise in Browns Valley
  In Browns Valley some residents are still not able to get into their homes, a day after the Little Minnesota River sent icy waters rushing through town. Although flood waters are receding and that means many of the 100 or so residents evacuated Wednesday morning are starting to assess flood damage to their homes and property.March 15, 2007
• Local musicians hope to go national in Austin
  Minnesota musicians hoping to get 'discovered' head to Austin, TX to play at the South by Southwest Music Festival.March 14, 2007
• Myers looks toward life after The Loft
  After 13 years, the executive director of the Loft Literary Center is leaving. Linda Myers will retire in October. The Loft is the largest independent center for writers in the country.March 13, 2007
• 'Temporary' Damiano Center celebrates its 25th anniversary
  A soup kitchen in Duluth is observing its 25th birthday. The people who started the soup kitchen thought it was a temporary arrangement. But the need just seems to keep on growing.March 12, 2007
• Equipment damage, frostbite end latest Bancroft-Arnesen trek
  Explorers Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen have ended their attempt to trek to the North Pole because of equipment damage and frostbite, they announced Monday.March 12, 2007
• Minneapolis Council members want circus animal ban
  A couple of Minneapolis City Council members plan to introduce a ban on performances by circus animals.March 12, 2007
• Tessie's treasures
  The Gluek mansion at 2447 Bryant Avenue South in Minneapolis has been a source of mystery and speculation in that neighborhood for years. This weekend, the doors to this fabled house are open to the public for an estate sale.March 9, 2007
• Two pleasant people made the film "Intolerable"
  David Rakoff is best known as a writer and a performer on "This American Life." This weekend filmgoers at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis can see him in a very different light. Rakoff plays a manipulative casting director auditioning actors in a short film called "Intolerable."March 9, 2007
• Suze's way
  With a style some compare to a televangelist, Suze Orman has persuaded PBS viewers and buyers of her many books to trim expenses and focus on the less material things in life.Midmorning, March 9, 2007
• Who benefits from daylight saving time?
  Extending daylight saving time was promoted as a way for the nation to save energy. But some say our extra hours of sunshine are really fueling the golf industry and the companies who make candy.March 9, 2007
• A handheld that saves native languages?
  A military device used in the Middle East is helping to preserve the Dakota language in southern Minnesota.March 6, 2007
• State archeologist rejects findings at Walker site
  Sharp divisions are developing over an archeological site in Walker. Some archeologists say the site could be among the oldest human sites in the country. Minnesota's state archeologist rejects the claims.March 6, 2007
• Archaeologist says "tools" are probably just rocks
  The state archaeologist is casting doubt on claims that an archaeological dig in the northern Minnesota city of Walker has turned up ancient stone tools between 13,000 and 14,000 years old.March 6, 2007

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