John Anderson’s Blog

The National weather service says that a significant winter storm is expected Friday afternoon into Saturday evening and will likely include all precipitation types, strong winds, and blizzard conditions.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation(MnDOT) is looking for individuals, families or groups that can join the more than 4,100 groups and 16,000 people in the state that are, adopt a highway, volunteers. There are more than 30 sections of highway that need to be adopted in southeastern Minnesota.

Saturday, although it will be cold looks like it, will be the better day of the weekend. The National Weather Service is saying that we could see some more snow Sunday. Right now the dividing line for the 6-8" or 3-5" runs diagonally through Rice County...

Linda Rost was working at a cosmetics counter at the now being renovated Downtown Minneapolis Dayton's Store, which later became Macy's. Her wallet was stolen from her purse. And recently when some ductwork came down, there was her wallet. According to KARE 11 Char Nelson, a worker for the demolition company happened to see it and tracked down Rost on Facebook...

Hope you enjoy your St. Patrick's Day Saturday. Jaime and others may have some of your favorite St. Patrick's day songs on Saturday. I might check out the St. Paul St. Patrick's day parade.

Update: Press Conference to be held at 3:30 pm today.

The World Clown Association Convention is underway at the Crown Plaza Suites in Bloomington. Pam Moody is the President of the WCA and hails from Iowa.

The Bethlehem Academy Cardinals had a day away from school to get ready for the Kingsland Knights. The Knights just had a two-hour late start on Tuesday. Not sure if the day off played a factor our not but the Cardinals were a little slow getting started and ended up down at halftime 43-24 at the Mayo Civic Center Auditorium.

That fishing opener is a couple of months away yet. But you need to start getting used to some new regulations for fishing those Northern Pikes that can be fun to bring in and great eating too. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says the new rules apply to inland waters of the state, in the north-central, northeastern and southern regions...

Those traveling to the Twin Cities this weekend will find a traffic problem to deal with. 35W will be closed in both directions from I-94 to Crosstown 62, starting at 10 pm Friday, March 2, so crews can demolish the 38th St. Bridge.