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Roadside News: Dec. 31, 2008

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

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Makeover For Minnesota’s Killer Wolf

Monday, December 8th, 2008

For years a lone wolf nicknamed “Old Three Legs” worried the citizens of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. He ate chickens, mostly, but some believed that he was a potential child-chewer, and his knack of not getting shot made him more fearsome. “Hunting parties of hundreds could not bring him down,” reads a lurid report on WDAY-TV, [...]

Feeling Lean? More SPAM, Please!

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

An article in the New York Times singled out SPAM — America’s iconic mystery meat — as “perhaps the emblematic hard-times food in the American pantry.” It then suggested that the economic collapse was good news for SPAM workers in Austin, Minnesota, since penny-pinching Americans will be more apt to eat what they produce. We [...]

Corpse Flower May Stink Up Museum For Halloween

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

super-rare corpse flower — one of only 140 in the world, according to an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel — is about to bloom at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

Keep Your Hands Off Our Stones

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

When people grow to love a certain big rock, they can get a little possessive. And if someone tries to move that rock, look out! Three cases currently making headlines illustrate that point. In Des Moines, Iowa, stands a 16-ton boulder with a plaque honoring the first Iowan to die in World War I. Last [...]

Bronze Fonz Says “Aaaay!” To Milwaukee

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

After three proposed locations and several production delays, a life-sized bronze statue of Arthur Fonzarelli, from the TV show “Happy Days,” was unveiled in the Brew City on August 19. Milwaukee was the fictional location for the 1970s take on the 1950s, and the “Fonz” was role model for a generation of retro cool rebels [...]

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