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Midwest maple syrup producers gathered Thursday and Friday for the International Maple Grading School at St.

Photo: #A cold snap that interrupted Minnesota's warm spring five weeks ago doesn't appear to have been as big a disaster for the state's apple crop as first feared, but still left some growers hurting and worried.

Nearly two months after its annual convention, the Republican delegates of Senate District 49 have officially endorsed candidates for this fall's elections.

Here are the most recent people to pass away in Northfield or who had ties to Northfield.

Renown sculptor Ray "Jake" Jacobson of Northfield has died. Jacobson was creator of two of Northfield's most prominent works of art, the Bridge Square Fountain and the bronze sculpture "Harvest" in the city's riverfront Sesquicentennial Legacy Plaza.