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Also on today's calendar: Community Watershed Celebration & Bird Festival 2026 and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: What did the fish say when she hit a wall? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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• Girls swimming and diving: Stillwater sinks Raiders in conference meet (hometownsource.com) — Stillwater's girls swimming and diving team opened the season with a dominant 101-75 home win over Roseville at Stillwater Middle School, sweeping all 12 events. Local standouts like Maddie Mathiason, Molly Mahoney, and Claire Christianson led multiple victories as coaches tested new lineups ahead of key midseason meets that Stillwater fans will be watching closely.
• Recipe for lake restoration success (hometownsource.com) — Work at Stillwater's Lily Lake shows how local raingardens and careful planning can restore troubled waters, just as similar projects did for Bald Eagle and other Washington County lakes. The article explains how data, targeted watershed fixes, and community involvement have helped remove several lakes from Minnesota's impaired waters list, and how residents can support future efforts.
• John M. Kuhn: Photographer of the St. Croix River Valley (hometownsource.com) — Stillwater's long tradition of photography comes to life in this profile of 19th‑century photographer John M. Kuhn, whose studio once anchored South Main Street. You'll learn how Kuhn and his brother Louis documented the town's evolution from lumber hub to tourist destination, including portraits at Stillwater Prison and images seen at the 1896 World's Fair.
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Dam! (Thank you George G. for sending it in!)
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