Lake Pepin

Private-public partnership to trim shoreline trees

Apr 21, 2016

The view of Lake Pepin along Highway 61 on the north edge of Lake City will be improved this spring, with the help of a private contribution. Trees growing along the lakeshore will be pruned to provide a better view of the lake from the highway. The city will hire a tree trimming contractor to...

Letters: A list of marina beach and Ohuta Park improvements

Apr 20, 2016

To the editor: Now that the plan seems to delay the bathrooms’ replacement, maybe we could focus on getting the old bathrooms cleaned up and ready for service. We noted that play park bathrooms are in service and look nice. We wish the city would take care of the beach bathrooms. Why not? I would...

Sight of a hang glider on Lake Pepin brings back memories

Apr 13, 2016

Lake City resident Bill Webb felt a wave of nostalgia watching Dave Dybsand and his crew test their boat-launched hang gliding equipment on Lake Pepin recently. In the 1950s, Webb and another young employee of the Bell Helicopter Company near Dallas, Texas, decided to design a glider that could be...

Now you, too, can soar with the eagles

Apr 13, 2016

Once endangered, bald eagles are again plentiful around Lake Pepin. Now another creature stands ready to return to the skies over Lake City after a prolonged absence. That creature is us. And on Sunday, April 3, us was me in a tandem harness hundreds of feet above Lake Pepin in a hang glider...

Tour de Pepin gets early rush

Apr 7, 2016

Early registration opened Friday for the ninth annual Tour De Pepin bicycle tour June 4. As of noon Tuesday, 200 riders already had registered. Drawing just over 600 riders its first year, the tour set a record with 836 riders last year and Andrea Chapman, executive director of the Lake City...

Early 'boater' on Lake Pepin

Apr 7, 2016

It is still a little early in the season for most boaters but Alex Bunger and his dog, Lilly, paddled along the shore at Ohuta Park Sunday enjoying a burst of warm spring weather. The Rochester man was here with his daughter, Maya. He said that Lake City is their favorite place to visit and enjoy...

Catching a little spring sunshine

Mar 31, 2016

Trenton Patteeu, 2 1/2, and his mom, Hope Fernald, spent part of their fifth day as Lake Citians with sidewalk chalk along the Riverwalk. Trenton, who moved here with his family from Oregon last Thursday, was impressed by the big water of Lake Pepin. His dad works for Marquette Grain in Byron....

Company tests boat-launched glider

Mar 31, 2016

Dave Dybsand of Eagle Hang Gliding awaits pick-up after landing a custom-made hang glider on Lake Pepin Tuesday. The two-person glider is launched like a kite from a platform on the back of a specially outfitted boat. Once it reaches altitude, the cable is released and is reeled in as it parachutes...

Eagles Galore!

Mar 16, 2016

This is the time of the year for eagle watchers up and down Lake Pepin but people have been stunned by their profusion this winter. River watcher Larry Nielson reported seeing an estimated 300 bald eagles on the lake one day last week. Photographer Ben Threinen caught this bunch of them perched on...

First tow opens river shipping season