Lake Pepin

Sunrise over Lake Pepin

Jan 17, 2018

Patrick Savage submitted this photo of a brilliant sun rising over frozen Lake Pepin recently. If you have a photo you’ve taken in the Lake City area that you’d like to share with other Graphic readers, you can email it to news@lakecitygraphic.com.

Powerful natural forces put on a show

Jan 10, 2018

Lake City photographer Ben Threinen captured this image of an ice break stretching off into the distance over Lake Pepin. He said it’s been years since he’s seen this phonomenon on Lake Pepin.

Fluid flow: A love story

Dec 6, 2017

“All of us are bound together by our love for fluid flow,” Jeff Marr told the audience at a fundraiser for a Lake Pepin-focused project by the Greater Lake City Community Foundation Nov. 30 at Nosh in Lake City. Marr was referring to he and his colleagues at the University of Minnesota’s St....

Lake Pepin's future is the focus of Greater Lake City Foundation project

Nov 29, 2017

The board of the Greater Lake City Community Foundation (GLCCF) has elected to create a study of the evolution of Lake Pepin over the coming fifty years, the foundation has announced. “Growing evidence in the Mississippi River at and above Red Wing demonstrates significant deposition of sediment...

Pearl looks back on  11th season in Lake City

Nov 2, 2017

The Pearl of the Lake paddlewheel boat made its final excursion of the season Sunday, Oct. 22, according to owner and boat captain Larry Nielson. The boat attracted thousands of passengers this year, according to Nielson, and its guestbook was signed by passengers from all 50 states and 17...

Letter: Chemicals may be reaching Lake Pepin

Oct 26, 2017

To the editor: Living in a small town, sometimes expressing an opinion can affect your job or someone close. Yet public opinion matters. From the comments and calls I’ve recieved, people do care. Here I go again! Parking is strictly enforced in the downtown area overnight, but in the daytime...

Feeling for bumps: City Council investigates state bonding prospects

Sep 21, 2017

The Lake City City Council wants to be in a position to capitalize on circumstances that could bring a major element of the city’s downtown and waterfront master plan into existence at a substantially reduced cost to the city. The design firm Stantec’s vision for the city this year included three...

To help Lake Pepin, go against the flow

Aug 24, 2017

Of the many factors contributing to the rapid sedimentation that threatens to shorten the life of Lake Pepin by millenia, researchers have identified one that, if it could be addressed, would have a huge impact. “You can reduce everything if you just reduce the flow,” said Carrie Jennings to...

Riverboat passes eagle perched on cross

Aug 10, 2017

An eagle perches on the cross at the former Methodist Campus in Old Frontenac (not far from the old steamboat landing) Sunday morning as the American Queen river boat heads upstream. The boat made an appearance later that day at Red Wing’s River City Days before heading south toward Dubuque, Iowa,...

Rocky marina beach gets sand infusion