Alyssa Hayes from Explore Minnesota joined me on WJON today. We talked about how the mostly ceremonial event begins today in Spicer, New London and Willmar. The event includes site seeing, golf, dinners, breakfast, a live broadcast Friday and fishing on Saturday.
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.
A group of lakeshore owners in west-central Minnesota are researching a new approach to fighting the spread of invasive zebra mussels across the state.