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Minnesota Sounds and Voices

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Distance skater Horace Munoz, Jr

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Distance skater Horace Munoz, Jr

With the unseasonably warm weather this February across Minnesota, the sound of skate blades on ice feels increasingly endangered. But not at the Guidant John Rose Minnesota skating oval in Roseville.
by Dan Olson

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Rose Hollermann, wheelchair basketball star

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Rose Hollermann, wheelchair basketball star

Meet 16-year-old Rose Hollermann of rural Elysian, the youngest woman ever to have been picked to represent the United States in wheelchair basketball at the paralympics.
by Dan Olson

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Pastor retires from ministering to recovering addicts

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Pastor retires from ministering to recovering addicts

"The end of our disease is death or recovery," the Rev. Jo Campe says of the addiction to alcohol that prompted him to contemplate suicide nearly 17 years ago. "There aren't any other options."
by Dan Olson

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices: The celestial sound of handbells

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: The celestial sound of handbells

Handbell choir performances around our region reach a peak during the holidays. Minnesota Sounds and Voices reporter Dan Olson recently spoke with Betty Fletcher Mast, a matriarch of the Minnesota handbell scene.
by Dan Olson

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Ignore 'The Birds,' embrace the crows

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Ignore 'The Birds,' embrace the crows

As they do with the coming of winter every year, thousands upon thousands of crows -- maybe even millions -- have started to swarm, caw and roost each night in downtown Minneapolis.
by Dan Olson

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Reaching for the music in a young prisoner's soul

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Reaching for the music in a young prisoner's soul

Every week, Bea Hasselmann walks past the razor wire-topped security fence and into the state's oldest juvenile detention facility to show young men how music can affect the soul.
by Dan Olson

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Immersed in the Dakota language

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Immersed in the Dakota language

The number of native speakers of the Dakota language is dwindling, but one teacher is keeping it alive to preserve a culture and a way of life.
by Dan Olson

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Preserving Chaska's Seminary Fen

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Preserving Chaska's Seminary Fen

Seminary Fen, on the edge of the Twin Cities with its prairie sedge, swamp thistle, goldenrod and marsh marigolds, has had its share of threats.
by Dan Olson

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