Hovland News

Photo by Nate Williams Q. For Christmas, my mother-in-law is renting a cabin for all the families to share on the North Shore.

When we spend a few days visiting our friends Lou and Inger Pignolet in Hovland, Minn., after a long and lingering drive up the North Shore, we often go a bit farther, crossing the border into Ontario and turning down a country road to Thunder Oak Cheese Farm, which is a small pocket of Holland in Canada.

At least 180 gallons of diesel fuel spilled into the parking lot of Olson Oil Company Sunday morning after a pump was struck by a trailer.

During a roll call vote, Councilmembers Dave Clark, Katherine Kolb, Dick Swanson and Mayor Tom Ryan voted yes.

He helped deliver dozens of airplanes for the U.S. military, and spent enough time in the air to circle the globe twice.

A canoeist making a 1,000-mile journey was rescued by the Duluth Fire Department on Tuesday morning when his heavily laden canoe took on water in the Duluth ship canal.