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A pair of Minnesota lawmakers expressed frustration Monday with a developing plan to evaluate pollution problems in Lake Pepin, a widening of the Mississippi River between Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Larry Nielson, who owns Lake Pepin Paddleboat Inc. and Pepin Valley Cos., had to shop around to get an ARC loan.

Along the banks of the Mississippi River are a number of small-town gems. While they're quaint in their own right, one has drawn particularly high praise for its breathtaking surroundings.

Note the delicate hearts on the sides. Designer: Andrew Shekton for Security Jewelers in Duluth - $17,500. 1-800-251-2222 www.securityjewelers.com 18-karat white gold ring containing .45-carat of FG color and VS clarity ideal-cut diamonds - $1,990 mounting without center cut diamond.

"Let me put it this way, I wasn't invited to Kohler last year." It's with a healthy dose of self-deprecation that Hosea Rosenberg can joke about his meteoric rise from obscurity to insta-celebrity in a little less than a year.

Kohler Food & Wine Experience tickets are now on sale for the Oct. 22-25 event with such celebrity chef presenters as Jacques Pepin, Andrew Zimmern, Marcus Sammuelsson and Lidia Bastianich.

A slice of SweeTango is what apple growers all over Minnesota thought they would get when the University of Minnesota introduced the new variety.

A community group is showing how something that's good for the flower garden can benefit local youths, too.

A lost duck hunter is found safe in the Tiffany Wildlife Refuge between Nelson and Pepin.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 31 counties in Wisconsin as primary natural-disaster areas following droughts that have persisted since March 1. The designation announced Sept.

Campers made music and friendship bracelets during recreation time at Luther Park in June, 2007.

The range of human nature can be as varied as "night and day," as if our schizophrenic behavior were somehow tied to celestial mechanics.

Lake Pepin's monster-in-residence has been relatively obscure since first sighted in 1871, but now, Pepie will be included in a book and in a TV documentary.

Smallmouth bass in the Mississippi River are sexually confused. And who can blame them? Government biologists, in the first major national study of the sexual organs of fish, found that nearly three out of four male bass sampled at Lake City, Minn., have egg cells growing inside their sexual organs.

It's been 142 years since Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in rural Pepin, but folks around here - especially young readers - have not forgotten the storyteller whose books still have a loyal following.

You knew her as "half pint" on the show "Little House on the Prairie. But did you know Laura Ingalls Wilder's story started in Pepin? For the past 19 years its celebrated its connection the the famous author.

Lemon Meringue, a popular Dodge County rock band

When most New Yorkers hear "Windham" they think about the popular ski slopes there.

A 47-year-old Pepin man was killed Wednesday afternoon in a single-vehicle accident in Pierce County.