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Joyce Gimmestad hoped to succeed in 90 before retiring from being a nurse. Still, she retired on June 22, at 88, attributable to a rare eye disease that may eventually cause her to go blind. Recently retired nurse Joyce Gimmestad...

Edward Lotterman Many individuals think that the U.S. economy is in terrible shape – no matter highly positive numbers for unemployment, growth in jobs and in the worth of output of products and services. Although consumer prices increased only 3%...

Welcome to the Glean, MinnPost’s twice-daily roundup of Minnesota news. KARE staff report the tiki party will soon be over at Psycho Suzi’s, which can close Aug. 19. St. Cloud Live’s Stephanie Dickrell reports Central Minnesota has 5,300 fewer child care...

U.S. Bank Stadium, Minneapolis MinnPost photo by Peter Callaghan Welcome to the Glean, MinnPost’s twice-daily roundup of Minnesota news. Rochelle Olson on the Star Tribune is reporting that U.S. Bank Stadium will likely be debt-free Monday when the Minnesota Department of Management...

Carol Sirrine remembers your name. Sirrine, the longtime K-12 fine-arts coordinator for Hopkins Public Schools, founded the St. Paul-based arts education organization ArtStart in 1988. Now, after an arts education profession that stretches back to the Nineteen Sixties, she plans...

The founders of considered one of the U.S.’s only foie gras producers — Au Bon Canard, based in Caledonia, Minn. — are retiring this 12 months. Christian and Liz Gasset, who began the duck farm about 17 years ago, are...

Growing up in St. Paul, Laurie Finnegan remembers hearing about Hang Lee. She was 11 when the 17-year-old Lee disappeared under suspicious circumstances in St. Paul on Jan. 12, 1993. Now, 30 years later, Lee still hasn’t been found, and Finnegan...

Even though it has been placing pets in loving homes since 1952, Minnesota’s oldest foster-based animal rescue has finally found a house of its own in St. Paul. Pet Haven executive director Kerry D’Amato with their mascot “Zipper” on Sept....