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Fire destroys several campers at southern Minnesota campground

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12 months ago

April 17, 2025

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Fire destroys several campers at southern Minnesota campground

A fire destroyed several camping trailers on Wednesday afternoon at a campground in southern Minnesota.

It happened at Shades of Sherwood Campground between Zumbrota and Wanamingo. No one was injured.

Zumbrota fire officials said the initial call just after 4 p.m. was for leaves on fire, encroaching on a camper. By the time first responders arrived, several large camping trailers were fully engulfed in flames.

Firefighters from Zumbrota and Wanamingo extinguished the fire, believed to have started from a discarded cigarette.

Zumbrota police Sgt. Tony Pasquale, Courtesy Zumbrota Fire Department

Zumbrota police officers ensured everyone was out of the campers, while firefighters from Zumbrota and Wanamingo extinguished the flames. The fire was under control shortly after 5 p.m.

Authorities said they believe the fire was started by a discarded cigarette, but it remains under investigation.

“We are thankful that there were no injuries on scene and grateful for the team work by all involved,” the Zumbrota Fire Department reported.

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Ahead of fishing opener, health officials update fish consumption guidelines

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9 hours ago

April 11, 2026

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Ahead of fishing opener, health officials update fish consumption guidelines

The new fish consumption guidelines include warnings about eating too much fish caught in northeastern Minnesota lakes and rivers, where fish tend to have higher mercury levels. And the state warns against consuming fish from the Vermillion River, south of the Twin Cities, because of PFAS contamination.

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Minnesota Duluth’s Max Plante wins men’s college hockey’s Hobey Baker Award

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April 10, 2026

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Minnesota Duluth’s Max Plante wins men’s college hockey’s Hobey Baker Award

Minnesota Duluth sophomore forward Max Plante is the winner of the 2026 Hobey Baker Award as the top player in men’s college hockey.

He edged fellow finalists, T.J. Hughes, a senior forward from Michigan, and Eric Pohlkamp, a junior defenseman from the University of Denver.

Plante scored 25 goals and had 52 points in 40 games in his second season with the Bulldogs. The 2024 second-round pick of the Detroit Red Wings finished third in NCAA Division I scoring behind Quinnipiac’s Ethan Wyttenbach (59) and Hughes (57).

He’s the first Minnesota Duluth player to win the award since Scott Perunovich in 2020 and the seventh overall.

Plante’s father, former NHL player Derek Plante, also played for Minnesota Duluth and was a Hobey Baker top 10 finalist in 1993.

Michigan State’s Trey Augustine was named the top goaltender in the Friday, April 10 ceremony. He went 24-9-1 for the Spartans with a 2.11 goals-against average and a .929 save percentage.

Wyttenbach was named college hockey’s rookie of the year.

Recent Hobey Baker Award winners

2026: F Max Plante, Minnesota Duluth
2025: F Isaac Howard, Michigan State
2024: F Macklin Celebrini, Boston University
2023: F Adam Fantilli, Michigan
2022: G Dryden McKay, Minnesota State
2021: F Cole Caufield, Wisconsin
2020: D Scott Perunovich, Minnesota Duluth
2019: D Cale Makar, UMass
2018: F Adam Gaudette, Northeastern
2017: D Will Butcher, Denver
2016: F Jimmy Vesey, Harvard

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New strain of COVID detected in 25 states including Minnesota

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1 day ago

April 10, 2026

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New strain of COVID detected in 25 states including Minnesota

(St. Paul, MN) — State health officials are keeping an eye on a highly mutated new COVID variant called B-A 3-dot-2, or “cicada.” Minnesota Department of Health Epidemiologist Keeley Morris says, “With that many mutations it’s likely going to be pretty good at evading any immunity that people have from being vaccinated or also from prior COVID-19 infections.” She says the good news is that B-A 3-dot-2 doesn’t seem to be causing more severe illness. The C-D-C says the “cicada” variant has been detected in at least 25 states. Morris says Minnesota has detected three cases of either B-A 3-dot-2 or some of its descendants, and we also had one site that had a positive wastewater detection.

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