WINONA, Minn. – Scattered snow followed accumulations of three inches most places overnight. Don’t look for many basketball or hockey scores this evening. Most schools in the region closed for the day and cancelled sports and other activities.

If bluffs were cakes. Would we call them iced? Or frosted? Only a lone orange plow on Highway 61 intrudes on the quietude over which Sugar Loaf presides in what’s normally the rush of morning commuters. Image: Steve Lunde