A new child care “house” is opening in Mapleton this week. It has space for more kids than most in-home daycares, but it’s smaller than a traditional child care center — and it’s owned by the City of Mapleton’s Economic Development Authority. “Currently, the cities of Sleepy Eye and Long Prairie are also exploring the child care house model,” MPR News reports. It cost just under $300,000 to build, much less than a traditional child care facility would cost. And if one day child care is no longer needed in the area, it can be repurposed for housing.
In the wake of DJ Mary Lucia’s (formerly of Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current) new memoir, The Minnesota Star Tribune has a feature about her years-long legal battle against a stalker — who also targeted another of the station’s DJs. “Among a dozen local broadcasters who replied to requests for interviews about their experience with gender-based harassment from audiences, few agreed to speak on the record. But everyone seemed to have a story.”
The Minnesota Wild made sports broadcasting history on Friday with the first NHL game broadcast entirely in the Ojibwe language. “The broadcast of the Wild’s 3-2 shootout victory over the Colorado Avalanche was streamed on FanDuel Sports Network in partnership with the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, Grand Casino and the Midwest Indigenous Immersion Network,” according to Tribal Business News.
Minnesota’s state-run paid family and medical leave program launches in exactly one month, and Minnesota Reformer has a run down of what you need to know.
Minnesota firefighters rescued a deer on Saturday after it fell through thin ice on Whitewater Lake in rural St. Louis County. As Bring Me the News reports, “members of the Hoyt Lakes Fire Department, likely some of the same firefighters who were battling last summer’s large wildfires in the Hoyt Lakes area, dared onto the ice, some of them in wetsuits, to save the animal.”
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