Program 51 Tourism, Resorts, and Commerce in the 1930s A radio series produced by historian Don Boese. Don is the author of eight books dealing with local history in Itasca County, including "John C. Greenway and the Opening of the Western Mesabi", and the main source for this series, "Papermakers: the Blandin Paper Company and Grand Rapids, Minnesota". The series begins with the arrival of the first Euro-Americans to the forested wilderness of Itasca County in the 1870s. In those early days the

“We can explain the achievement gap before kids get to kindergarten” – Layna Cole, Associate Professor, Bemidji State University. The documentary film No Small Matter will be shown in Bensen Hall on Bemidji State University Tuesday, April 23 rd at 6pm. The film delves into the critical time in children’s brain development that has a direct impact on their abilities to be successful in life. That critical time is the first five years of existence – the five years before exposure to established

How are our forests changing and how are forest professionals studying and dealing with climate change in northern MN? Tune in for Brian Palik, USDA Forest Research Ecologist explains. He's going to do a public talk on Earth Day at Itasca Community College in Grand Rapids.

Governor Walz was back with us on Making Sausage on the Thursday Morning Show on KAXE/KBXE.

According to master gardener Carmen Griggs, leafy greens are making the “world tour” for Itasca County in 2019. One Vegetable One Community (aka OVOC) started in 2017 with a focus on beans, then graduated to carrots (“the root of wonder”) in 2018. “For this year,” explains Jesse Davis, who also helps plan Itasca County OVOC, “we just got us local veggie nerds together. We looked at some other communities and what they had done before, and then just kind of talked about some things we thought

Phenology is the biological nature of events as they relate to climate. Every Tuesday morning, our resident Phenologist John Latimer gathers his phenological data and reports his findings in the weekly Phenology Report. In this week's report, John compares what he's seeing this year to past year's data collection. Among the wildlife activity he's documented so far this year, John has witnessed buffleheads, hooded mergansers, and flickers. John created a sweet worksheet you can download and use

Every week we hear from Minnesota school kids as they share what they've been observing outside. This week there were some incredible phenology notes gathered by the kids - porcupines, great blue herons,increased daylight, snowdays, slushy lakes, turkeys and syrup are just the tip of the iceberg. We even heard from students at the University of MN St. Paul campus! Click on the reports to hear the full reports from our intrepid reporters, a song from U of M students and much more! What are you

So what ISN'T working in small town America? Chuck and Aaron give us their thoughts.

In our April Dig Deep conversation, Aaron Brown talks about an assignment he gives to his students at Hibbing Community College. Identify what you think is one of the biggest social problems, and ways to solve it. Over the last 10 years there's a similar answer. "there's nothing to do in small towns!" Aaron and Chuck break it down.

In our April Dig Deep conversation, Aaron Brown talks about an assignment he gives to his students at Hibbing Community College. Identify what you think is one of the biggest social problems, and ways to solve it. Over the last 10 years there's a similar answer. "there's nothing to do in small towns!" Aaron and Chuck break it down.