May 19, 1997 - The popular local web site, Channel 4000, is teaming up with the Internet's largest directory, Yahoo!. Channel 4000 is providing news to Yahoo's new Yahoo! Twin Cities site, at www.Minnesota.yahoo.com. Channel 4000 has also announced partnerships with local media companies for health, sports and employment sites. Channel 4000 publisher R.T. Ryback describes what the partnership with Yahoo means.
May 20, 1997 - Public and private landholders are challenging Chippewa Indian's plans to take fish and other game in eastern Minnesota, under terms of an 1837 treaty. But miles north of the region under contention, Chippewa Indians have been harvesting fish and wild rice and hunting moose and deer on public lands with little fanfare, and no public protests.
May 22, 1997 - Mainstreet Radio’s Catherine Winter presents a profile of the band, Conga Se Menne. The group from Upper Peninsula of Michigan utilizes some bongos, steel drums, and a tropical beat. They call their music Finnish reggae. The reggae beat is surprisingly similar to the Finnish schottish and soca is not far from a polka.
May 29, 1997 - Mainstreet Radio’s Rachel Reabe profiles Minnesota's Linda Eder, who is wowing Broadway audiences as the female lead in the musical version of Jekyll and Hyde. 36-year-old Eder, who grew up outside Brainerd, has an exceptional, powerful voice, according to the theater critics and fans singing her praises.
May 29, 1997 - Mainstreet Radio’s Rachel Reabe visits a correctional facility in Faribault. Secure behind high chain link fences topped with coiled razor wire, the oldest prisoners in the system live out their remaining years.
May 31, 1997 - In sports news: The Philadelphia Flyers take on the Detroit Red Wings in Game One of the Stanley Cup finals tonight. The Flyers have not won hockey's top prize in 22 years and the Red Wings are seeking to end a 42-year title drought. The Minnesota Twins play game two of their three game series against the Anaheim Angels tonight. The Twins are in the midst of a five game road series. Although it seems like plans for a Twins stadiums are "on ice"--hockey plans are heating up in St. Paul, Weekend Edition Sports Commentator Jay Weiner says while a NHL team may come, the Twins are threatening to go---so, we turn to a Marvin Gaye song to summarize this situatuion---WHAT'S GOING ON???
May 31, 1997 - A new carousel rolled to life in Minnesota this weekend. Twenty hand-carved animals dip and bob to kalliope music at Lark Toys in the small town of Kellogg along the Mississippi River. It's the first carousel carved of Minnesota wood by Minnesotans and features many native animals.
May 31, 1997 - Minnesota education officials say the results of a basic skills writing test offer no statewide insights because so few students participated. The Department of Children, Families and Learning today released scored from the voluntary practice test. Despite its lack of meanigful statistics, educators say the test was an important exercise in the move toward statewide education standards.
June 2, 1997 - As part of the “Voices of Minnesota" series, this program features two health related interviews. MPR’s John Biewen speaks with Dr. Ron Cranford of the Hennepin County Medical Center. Cranford is an ethicist and end-of-life specialist. Infertility specialist. MPR’s Stephanie Curtis speaks with Dr. Robert Jansen, author of Overcoming Infertiity: A Compassionate Resource for Getting Pregnant.
June 5, 1997 - MPR's Laura McCallum reports on the efforts underway in the small north-central Minnesota community of Staples to restore a hidden theater. Built in 1908, Batcher's Opera House is located above a department store-turned-antique shop. History buffs say it provides a rare glimpse into theater in the early 20th century.