by Renée Stewart-Hester | Sep 1, 2021 | Garden, Outdoors
“… we all need to get outside and dig in the dirt a little more.” “If you had told me 10 years ago that I would become a chicken lady with a 3,000-square-foot garden, I would have told you [that] you were crazy,” Emily Bretzel says. “When we bought our house, we were...
by Kevin Castellano | Sep 1, 2021 | Drinks, Ingredients, Noteworthy
This cocktail is very easy to prepare and noncommittal, too, as these ingredients are often available in smaller format bottles, so give it a try. 2 oz. dry vermouth 1 oz. Benedictine (a liqueur flavored with 27 flowers, herbs, roots and spices) 3 dashes of absinthe...
by Renée Stewart-Hester | Sep 1, 2021 | Noteworthy, Sports
You know it’s time to replace a piece of equipment when its replacement parts can’t be found. Such was the case with the Maple Grove Senior High School football stadium’s scoreboard, which was replaced this summer with a new video scoreboard. “The entire Maple Grove...
by Samantha DeLeon | Sep 1, 2021 | Arts, People
Smokin’ Henways virtually produce new album. By dropping the curtain on live entertainment, the pandemic took a toll on the music scene. But this wasn’t necessarily the case for Craig Schmoller of Carver and Joe Sherohman of Maple Grove, who created and produced an...
by Ava Diaz | Sep 1, 2021 | Landscape
Lawn greeting service spreads joy through one-of-a-kind signs. Many Minnesotans love anything on a stick (à la the Minnesota State Fair food extravaganza), so why shouldn’t celebration proclamations get the same treatment? Casey Pierce of Maple Grove thought so, and...