April 8, 1997 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger reports on Governor Arne Carlson address to appeal for cool heads at Lake Mille Lacs. Rising tensions over imminent Ojibwe spearfishing and netting prompted the governor to make a statewide three-minute address asking for forbearance. Around Mille Lacs, lakeside residents responded to Carlson with a mixture of relief and doubt.
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April 10, 1997 - MPR’s Dan Gunderson reports on how Fargo-Moorhead learned they had as little as 36 hours to raise dikes by two feet because the Red River could go higher than earlier predicted. Hundreds of people worked through the night in an effort to beat the clock.
April 10, 1997 - MPR's Jon Gordon reports that there will be no spears or gillnets on Mille Lacs Lake, for now. A federal appeals court has refused to allow eight Ojibwe Bands, including six from Wisconsin, to spear and gillnet on Mille Lacs and other Minnesota lakes this spring. The move comes after landowners and some counties appealed a federal judge's order allowing the bands to begin fishing in the 12 county area of east-central Minnesota.
April 11, 1997 - Mainstreet Radio's Catherine Winter visits “Patzoldts' Lost Frontier" in Grand Rapids, the farthest north commercial maple syrup producer in the United States. A cold snap has halted maple syrup production around the state. Sap had started running in the maple trees, but when temperatures plunged, it stopped abruptly. In some cases, the sudden freeze may have damaged the equipment maple syrup producers use.
April 11, 1997 - MPR’s Bill Wareham reports on residents of the Phillips neighborhood in South Minneapolis packing City Council chambers morning to plead for more help combatting violence.
April 12, 1997 - Seventeen Minnesota authors are waking up winners this morning. The 9th Annual Minnesota Book awards were awarded last night at the Minnesota History Center. The Coordinator of the MN Book Awards Roger Sween, says seventy books are nominated for awards this year-another record year for nominations.
April 13, 1997 - Francisco de Goya's 80 images entitled "The Disasters of War" are on display this weekend at Hamline University. This rare Goya exhibit is part of Hamline's ESPANA festival--a celebraion of Spanish culture. The festival includes speeches by American scholar Noam Chomsky--flamenco dancing, music and art. I toured the Goya exhibit with Curator and Art Professor Leonardo Lasansky. Prof. Lasansky says many people are not familiar with many aspects of Goya's large body of work.
April 18, 1997 - MPR’s Laura McCallum reports on a stressful week for residents of Southwest Fargo, where homes in the 500-year floodplain are threatened by rising water. Most of these homes are far from the Red River, and residents never imagined they'd be scrambling to protect their homes from overland flooding.
April 19, 1997 - Living in an artists loft may be your secret dream...this weekend you'll get the chance to see if the reality lives up to your expectations. Over 160 artists are opening their lofts and displaying their work as part of this weekend's ST. PAUL ART CRAWL. Craig Thiesen is a photographer living in the Northern Warehouse. He says even as a young artist he always dreamed of living in a Lowertown loft. He says loft living may not be as exotic as people think.