Over 300 bicyclist's, from 20 different states, are biking across central Minnesota, in the Biking Around Minnesota (BAM) event. The four day tour is bringing riders through Cold Spring, Albany, Spicer, Hutchinson then back to Cold Spring. Each day riding about 70 miles.
On Saturday there will be a food packaging event at the Albany High School gym. The non-profit organization ImpactLives will provide all the ingredients to assemble meals.
The newly formed Granite Ridge Conference is going from 7 schools in 2011-2012 to 9 schools in 2012-2013. The two schools joining in 2012-2013 are Albany and Becker. Albany decided today to leave the West Central Conference and make the move to the Granite Ridge Conference.