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New Stearns County park protects lakeshore, offers chance to restore lost prairie and wetlands
About 250 acres on the Sauk River Chain of Lakes in central Minnesota will be preserved as a new public park and wildlife preserve. The property borders the popular chain it narrows into the Sauk River, just south of Cold Spring. It includes about a half-mile of shoreline, rolling hills...
Stearns History Museum Unveils New Exhibit
ST. CLOUD (WJON News) -- The Stearns History Museum unveiled a new exhibit on Saturday. As the museum continues to celebrate its 40th Anniversary it unveiled "Home At Last: The Building of the Stearns History Museum" at a ceremony in the museum's plaza at 1:00 p.m. "Home at Last" details...
This Small Minnesota Town Loves Their Baseball
Freeport is a small town in Central Stearns County in Oak Township with a population of 632. Freeport's water tower with a smiley face greets travelers along I-94 daily. Freeport wasn't always called Freeport. When the community initially settled in the late 1890s the settlement was called Oak Station. The name changed due to confusion over a town to the west along the same railroad line because Osakis sounded too similar. Freeport, Minnesota is named after Freeport, Illinois. There is also a Freeport, Wisconsin too.
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