by Ted Stone
staff writer

Baudette expects to draw several thousand people to town again this year for Fourth of July celebrations.  Festivities include music, food, crafts, two parades, a 5-kilometer run, all kinds of entertainment and, of course, northern Minnesota’s most spectacular fireworks display.
Just as in previous years, the design for the fireworks show is being kept secret, but Mike Hovde, president of the Baudette-Lake of the Woods Chamber of Commerce, said at least part of the display could pay homage to Willie Walleye’s 50th birthday.

The Baudette Lake of the Woods Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the Baudette Police Department would like to announce several road closures and parking restrictions that will be in place over the 4th of July weekend.

by Ted Stone
staff writer

The 692nd Radar Squadron reunion already has 160 people signed up for its Friday night fish fry, and local organizer Shelly Phillippe said she expects there are still more people who will attend the reunion, but haven’t signed up yet.

by Ted Stone
staff writer

George Taylor, the Baudette city superintendent, said last spring that at least some of the campsites at Timber Mill Park would be open by Fourth of July, and it looks as if his prediction has come to pass.
At least 10 of the sites, including the water and electricity hookups, will be open by the weekend for recreation vehicle campers, Taylor said. The campground has already served tent campers for several weeks.
“We’ve been talking about this for three years,” Taylor said, “and this will be the year.”

We live in a community where “fish stories” are common!  You know, stories about “the big one that got away” or how “it took me 45 minutes to land it” or that “it was so – o – o – big that…”!
Knowing our community’s love of fish stories, we would like to invite everyone to join in the fun of listening to the Tall Tales of Willie Walleye, who is 50 years old in 2009.  The public reading of the tall tales will take place at different times and in different locations so that everyone can join in the fun:
Friday, July 3 at 10 a.m. at Jeri’s On Main

by Brad Abbey
Interim Police Chief

by Ted Stone
staff writer

In a 4-1 vote June 23 Lake of the Woods County Commissioners voted to go ahead with a plan to convert the county’s television towers to digital service. The plan, in an arrangement with Roseau County, would allow the county to increase the number of television stations available for viewing to nine.

Minnesota has strengthened its child passenger safety law by requiring a child who is both under age 8 and shorter than 4 feet 9 inches to be fastened in a child safety seat or booster. Under this law, a child cannot use a seat belt alone until they are age eight or four feet nine inches tall. It is recommended to keep a child in a booster based on their height, rather than their age.  Boosters are seat lifts that help raise a child up so a seat belt fits properly. Kids that are shorter than 4 feet 9 inches aren’t ready to use a seat belt alone.