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6August 2024

Door holds despite angry entry attempt

WINONA, Minn. – Police arrested a woman with a bloody hand outside a Mankato Avenue house where domestic violence had been reported. A woman inside the house, who called 911, said that Karla Berenice Ramos Monroy, 41, had broken glass in a door to force her way in. She didn’t get inside. This was about 9:55 p.m. in the 450 block of Mankato Avenue, not far from the Paperbacks and Pieces bookstore.

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Ramos Monroy. Accused of domestic assault.

6August 2024

Rochester bans homeless squatters from city land

ROCHESTER, Minn. – The Rochester City Council voted 4-3 to prohibit camping on city property and rights-of-way and told police to arrest violators. Supporters said the new ordinance will address homelessness. Opponents, who packed the Council’s chambers for the debate, called the ban overly aggressive — heartless overkill. Council member Molly Dennis, wo opposed the ban, said: “We need to make sure that we are looking through the eyes of people who are going to be impacted by this incredibly regressive policy that’s going to do more harm than good. We cannot, I think, in good conscience add to their struggles.” Council member Patrick Keane, who supported the ban, admitted it was less than a full solution to homelessness but necessary.

6August 2024

Driver hurt in Garvin Heights rollover

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man was injured when his car crashed into a drainage ditch a few blocks beyond the Garvin Heights blufftop. The vehicle rolled over. Kyle Foster Casey,53, was taken to the Winona hospital. A blood draw was taken because officers suspected alcohol was involved. No charges were filed immediately. The accident was about 8:50 p.m. at Garvin Heights Road and East Garvin Heights Road. Foster was alone, police said

6August 2024

Iowan extradited to Winona on terror charge

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona County jail transport officer drove 170 miles to Maquoketo, Iowa, to pick up  a man jailed for terroristic threats to his ex-girlfriend in Lewiston. For the trip Steven Michael Conroy, 32, was cuffed for 3-1/2 hours  in the back of a transport vehicle. He was booked into the Winona jail at 5:10 p.m. Conroy had been arrested July 22 in LaMotte, Iowa, on a Winona warrant. Deputies inferred from messages to his ex-girlfriend that he was prepared to shoot it out with police, so Iowa authorities activated a SWAT team and surrounded his place. The arrest was without resistance, but Conroy then fought extradition back to Minnesota. He was in the Maquoketo jail while Minnesota and Iowa authorities worked through his legal resistance to bejg transferred to Minnesota.

Earlier: Iowa man fights return for Lewiston terrorism case

Earlier: SWAT team aids arrest for Lewiston violence threats

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Conroy. Charge: Threats of violence without rgeard to risk.

6August 2024

It’s him: Minnesota governor for vice president

WASHINGTON – The prospective Democratic nominee for president, Kamala Harus, has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to join her ticket for vice president. If Harris and Walz carry Minnesota, they will have 10 electoral votes toward the 270 needed to win in the November election. Sources said Harris had narrowed in on two candidates as late as Monday afternoon — Walz, age 60, Pennsylvania Governor. Josh Shapiro, 51. Shapiro would have strengthened the Harris presidential bid with 19 possible electoral votes – almost twice what Minnesota offers.  Walz is an experienced progressive leader whose profile could help shore up the Democratic position in Blue Wall battleground states in the Upper Midwest. Also making the final round as of Monday was Arizona Senator Mark Kelly.

Earlier: Walz has weekend event on East Coast

Earlier: Walz on vice presidency: Don’t press me yet

Earlier:  Walz as vice president? Maybe but not so fast

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Walz. A White House after Frday meetng with Kamala Harris.

6August 2024

Cops caucus on early alerts for beer blowouts

WINONA, Minn. – Law enforcement agencies in Winona and Fillmore counties have been caught unawares of five huge and out-of-control beer parties in recent months. It’s a challenge to stay a step ahead, Chief Deputy Sheriff Jeff Mueller acknowledged. The parties, he said, are spawned on social media with word then spreading person to person by email. The draw can be huge. Do some scary math: Spike a high school geometry compass on a map at Elba and draw a circle out 70 miles. This past weekend’s beer-bast near Elba had an estimated 30  participants from Albert Lea, Browndale, Chatfield,iLewiston, Owatonna, Rochester and St. Charles, deputies said. And they were way too busy to talk with everyone about their hometown.

Obscure locations

Part of the challenge too is that these beer bashes have been in remote areas with low-population density. An early detection system with closer monitoring of socil media sites like Snapchat has been suggested, Mueller said. Also, law enforcement agencies may need to be more timely in sharing information and tips. For the beer-a-palooza in Whitewater Township over the past weekend, all three Winona County deputies on night patrol at the time responded but had no backup. Again, do the math: A risky 300 versus three. At a party a week earlier in the same Beaver Creek area, deputies found some support from the State Patrol, which happened to have a unit the area.

Lessons from 2022 rave?

They used to have what were called raves. That was a  a quarter century ago. Inspired by Woodstock, entrepreneurs organized huge but secret music and drug fests. They advertised their events but were vague on the sites until the day of an event – like “within 200 miles of Des Moines.” Ticket holders were  not issued driving instructions a day ahead and then told: “Don’t tell.” It worked. On an April day in 2022 the people who live up Chicken Valley at Bluff Siding across the Wisconsin-Minnesota border from Winona suddenly saw hundreds of cars going up their quiet road to the ridge. At the ridge-top on he Drazkowski farm, the ravers listened to bands and got high.

Multi-agency response
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Gin Mill. The 2022 rave was near this clubhouse of the Mad Dogs bikers, a.k.a. the Gin Mill  bar and an off-and-on stripper joint. Rave performances were on an adjoining farm

The event was well under way when the Buffalo County sheriff, 26 miles away in Alma, started getting calls from Chicken Valley people: “What’s going on?” Once on site, deputies from the tiny county-level agency called on any and all other agencies for immediate help. These included state police, city and county officers from Winona and beyond, state game wardens, and federal wildlife officers. As it turned out, there wasn’t much the officers could do but rescue the most stumbling drunk and dangerously high celebrants out of the fields and woods. Even so, there may be lessons on multi-agency cooperation to deal with Winona County’s latter-day progeny of the raves of an earlier time.

Earlier: Owatonna girl bruised at Whitewater beer bash

Earlier: Cops bust 300 revelers at drunken bash

Earlier: Rural wingding ends quickly, just in time

Earlier: Cops, vastly outnumbered, shut down bonfire party

Earlier: Party-pooping cops pinch under-age revelers

Earlier: Crashers ruin party in west Winona County

6August 2024

State Fair food fare /15

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August 22 to September 2

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Strawberries and cream waffle stick. Belgian waffle filled with strawberry shortcake cookie dough, topped with whipped cream and strawberry sauce, and served on-a-stick. At Waffle Chix on Judson Avenue between Liggett and Clough streets.

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Strawberry lemonade donut. Hand-cut yeast-raised donut frosted with lemon buttercream, rolled in strawberry lemonade crunch, and garnished with lemon gummy candy and freeze-dried strawberry slice. Served with a strawberry lemonade-filled pipette. Vegetarian. At Fluffy’s Hand-Cut Donuts between West Dan Patch and Carnes avenues and Liggett and Chambers streets, south section.

6August 2024

R.I.P.: Jane Starnes

WINONA, Minn. –Jane M. Starnes, age 81, of Winona, who was the Winna County home health coordinator, died at Sauer Home in Winona. She a;lo held jobs at Walt Disney World, Riverside Electronics and at various restaurants as a chef prep. She held a degree from the College of She. Teresa. She was active with quilting, volunteered at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, and swam with the Silver Sneakers.

Detail: Watkowski-Mulyck Funeral Home

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5August 2024

Doors open at LaCrosse mall after AC fixes

ONALASKA, Wis.  – The enclosed Valley View mall re-opened after being closed four days by a mechanical failure in a chiller unit. Repairs had required electricity to be cut off, said mall manager Aimee Awonohopay.

Earlier: Bad AC chiller shuts down Valley View mall

5August 2024

Nabbed again sucking in dust-off gasses

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man with a huffing addiction has been caught again. Keith Roy Schroeder, 35, who sometimes gives his address as Dakota, was cited for working to get high on compressed air accelerants in spray cannisters sold as dusters. This was about 2:45 p.m. in a parking lot on West Second Street near the Burggraf hardware store. Police took Schroeder to the hospital. Once released, he went to Walmart and resumed huffing, first in a women’s restroom, then a men’s stall. The huffing was audible, and a store employee called police. With Schroeder were two empty dust-off canisters and a third that was wet and cold because it had just been used, police said. Schroder’s pattern has been to take dust-off products off store – in effect shoplifting —  and retreating to huff privately. The charge again this time: Habitual huffing. Schroeder has had seven earlier huffing arrests.

Earlier: Serial huffer nabbed sixth time, called habitual violator

5August 2024

Winona driver loses control; rolls over rail tracks

LAMOILLE, Minn. – A Winona driver overturned across the Canadian Pacific mainline after his light truck drove off U.S. Highway 61 near Twin Bluffs. Brent Jeffrey Maclennan, 49, was taken 22 miles to a LaCrosse hospital with injuries that appeared non-life threatening. His truck ended upside down on the river side of the single tracks. This was about 2:15 p.m. The airbag in the 2022 Ford Bronco deployed and he was belted, Nodine first-responders said.

5August 2024

Vance due in Eau Claire in “bracket” tactic

WASHINGTON – Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance plans on Wednesday to visit a Wisconsin company that manufactures airport equipment in Eau Claire – on the same day that Democrat presidential nominee is in town for a major rally. Vance will be at Wollard International, which employs 60 people in northwest Eau Claire. It’s a media event at 1 p.m. but not a large-scale rally. Vance, a freshman senator from Ohio, is shadowing Harris all week with stops in Philadelphia, Eau Claire, Detroit and Raleigh. The tactical wisdom of such “bracketing” is debatable, but it can diffuse news coverage of an opponent. The question among political experts is whether bracketing is a wise use of campaign resources. Even so, Eau Claire is a geographical double-whammy in current presidential politics — only 60 miles from the battleground state of Minnesota and the voter-rich Twin Cities metropolitan area — and also within the battleground state of Wisconsin. The Eau Claire plan for Vance, besides speaking at Wollard, is to be available for a news interview. Vance has emerged as a Trump campaign policy attack dog to define Harris as outside the American mainstream. In Eau Claire he is expected to go after Harris on immigration, crime and the economy.

Earlier: Where will Harris’ rally in Eau Claire be? Dunno

Earlier: Time shifted for Kamala Harris’ Wisconsin rally

Earlier: Harris campaign rally set for Eau Claire

Wollard profile

Wollard International manufacturers aviation ground support equipment like baggage belt loaders, mobile passenger stairs, maintenance lifts, and tow tractors. It was founded in the 1950s and was bought in 2019 by the equity investment company Kilroy Partners. Kilroy is led by GOP donor Robert Priddy. In confirming the Vance visit, Wollard issued a statement: “We are pleased to be hosting U.S. Senator JD Vance at our Eau Claire facility to highlight the strength and quality of U.S. equipment manufacturing.”

5August 2024

Gun collection missing from LaMoille home

LAMOILLE, Minn.   – Somebody stole four rifles and a pellet gun from a Green Terrace trailer house, the owner told sheriff’s officers. The man said the theft occurred between July 25 and July 29 when he was away. Missing;

> Savage 30-06 bolt-action rifle with scope, valued at $600.

> Mossberg .270 bolt-action rifle with scope,, $550.

> Marlin 22 magnum bolt-action rifle with scope, $400.

> Savage 22 semiautomatic rifle, $200.

> Gamo 177-calibre air rifle pellet gun, $50.

Each was in a soft-side case, he said.

5August 2024

Northwest Rochester a hotbed of hate?

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Police asked for help investigating a spray-paint attack on the home of  State Representative Kim Hicks. “We take incidents like this very seriously,” the Department said in a public statement. The Hicks home is in northwest Rochester, where a banner with the demeaning word “njgger” was posted in June over a four-lane highway near Century High School. The culprits were identified as Century students, but Mark Ostrem the attorney for Olmsted County, said the case would be too problematic to prosecute.

Earlier: Hicks calls graffiti attack terroristic, cowardly

Earlier: Prosecutor: No action on Rochester racial slur

Earlier: Teen arrests pending over racist display

5August 2024

Duluth’s best kept secret: Seven-mile sandspit

NEW YORK – the magazine Travel and Leisure has named Park Point Beach off Duluth in Lake Superior as one of best beaches the nation. The monthly magazine T&L , which claims 4.8 million readers, raved thusly: “The beautiful sandy beach, complete with waves, has the feel of an ocean. It offers great views of Duluth and Lake Superior, and is known for its spectacular sunrises. A nearby playground, barbecue grills, and a ball field are popular. Leashed dogs are welcome.” Yes, they surf there too.

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Minnesota Point. At seven miles the beach is on the longest U.S. fresh water sandbar.

5August 2024

Notable journalism

Olivia Estright (Rochester Post Bulletin, July 30, 2024): “A Lewiston Business Lost Millions in a Scam. Will It Ever See That Money Again?

Nick Halter (Axios, April 23, 2024): “We Tried the 21-Minute Flight from Eau Claire).

Hannah Holland (KAAL, July 10, 224): “Details of Trooper Roper’s On-Duty Crashes Revealed in Personnel File”

5August 2024

Minnesota suicide rate declines slightly

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota had 815 suicides last year, down about from 860 the year before, the state Health Department reported. The rate was 14.8 deaths per 100,000 people – slightly less than the 14.2 national rate. Details:
> Suicides were much more frequent outstate than in the Twin Cities metro.

> Rates in northeast counties like Lake and Cook were three times higher than the Metro.

> Suicide was relatively uncommon in much of southern Minnesota.

> Minnesota suicides rates were most common in middle age.

> Suicides were three to four times higher for men than women.

> Native Americans were more prone to suicide than other ethnic groups.

> Firearms comprised nearly half of Minnesota suicides, reflecting access to guns.

> People who commit suicide were twice as likely to have been using alcohol than any other drug.

Data on substance use only goes through 2021 but show that cannabis is being more frequently used by people who commit suicide. Prior to 2019, marijuana use was typically recorded in fewer than 5% of suicide victims, but by 2021 it was in 16%.

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Suicides by county. Per 100,000 residents in period 2017 through 2021. The more intense the color, the the worse  the  county’s rate. Image: Minnesota Health Department

More suicide data

Minnesota suicide rates have been steadily increasing for 20 years. Overall rate rate remains about one-third higher than 2003. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the Minnesota rate has closely tracking the national average.

4August 2024

Owatonna girl bruised at Whitewater beer bash

ELBA, Minn. – An Owatonna mother said her teen-age daughter came home injured from a fight at the mega-beer bash overnight in a remote coulee downriver from Elba. In a call to the Winona County sheriff’s office, the mother said the attackers — two other girls —  punched her daughter in the face, pushed her to the ground and kicked her. The injured girl, age 16, didn’t require medical attention. The fight was not witnessed by the three deputies who had been dispatched the scene at 12:02 a.m. The fight apparently occurred before deputies arrived but who knows for sure. An estimated 300 revelers werev spread out a quarter mile in the dark along a remote narrow road with lots of confusion and turmoil.

Earlier: Cops bust 300 revelers at drunken bash

Seeking assailants

The injured Owatonna teen said she didn’t know her attackers except by first name. A social media check after she got home led her to believe that they were from Freeborn County and that one is 18 years old. Owatonna is in Steele County and 20 miles north of the county line. Both counties are a 70-mile drive from the bash near Elba. In Winona after the mother called, investigators began tracking the assailants with remote assistance from Owatonna and Albert Lea authorities but with little initial success,

4August 2024

Where will Harris’ rally in Eau Claire be? Dunno

EAU CLAIRE, Wis.  – Authorities remained tight-lipped about the location of the Kamala Harris presidential campaign rally on Wednesday. The only clue has been from Police Chief Matt Rokus, who said his department is the lead local liaison with the Harris protective unit. That signaled that site will be within the city limits — not out in the county. Attendees who have lined up online won’t be informed where to go until the latest practicable time. The U.S. Secret Service, which coordinates security for candidates, has been especially cautious about advance announcements since the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on July 13.

Earlier: Time shifted for Kamala Harris’ Wisconsin rally

 

4August 2024

Three vehicles in Elgin pileup; injuries

ELGIN, Minn. – Several persons were hospitalized after three vehicles, each going a different direction, collided on State Highway 42 on the northern outskirts of Elgin. This was about 5:55 p.m. Wabasha County deputies said a 2015 Ford F350 pickup was southbound on Highway 42, a 2016 Honda Accord westbound on County Road 25, and a 2018 Chevrolet Tahoe eastbound on County Road 25. They collided at the intersection. The principals:

> Gary Francis Grebin, 85, of Lanesboro, driving the pickup. Unhurt. Belted.

> Juan Carlos Cruz-Miranda, 23, of Plainview, driving the Chevrolet. Unhurt. Belted.

> Gay Jensen James, 75, of Lanesboro, driving the Honda. Sustainable injuries. To a Rochester hospital 22 miles away. Belted.

> Ann Marie Jensen, 81, of Minneapolis. Sustainable injuries. To a Rochester hospital. Belted.

> Jon Howard Jensen, 82, of Minneapolis. Sustainable injuries. To a Rochester hospital. Belted.

4August 2024

Afflicted driver crashes, airlifted to hospital

PIGEON FALLS, Wis. – A Galesville man with a sudden medical emergency while driving crashed into a grove trees. George W. Wallner 72, was extricated from the wreck by Osseo firefighters and med-evacuated by helicopter to a hospital. His passenger, Jean A. Wallner, 73, of Galesville, also had to be cut from the car.  She was transported to a hospital by ground ambulance with non-life-threatening injuries. The accident was about 4:35 p.m. north of Pigeon Falls. The accident was on U.S. 53 near Bye Nelson Road.

4August 2024

Cops bust 300 revelers at drunken bash

ELBA, Minn – Three deputies tipped to a massive beer bash up a coulee from ghe  Whitewater River swamps found 150 or so cars – and probably 300 youthful revelers. Without backup available from other agencies, the deputies, outnumbered 300 to 3, did what they could to disperse the crowd. Their work was eased somewhat by so many cars being parked every which way along the dead-end narrow dirt road and blocking the way back out. Deputies did the best they could to assure each departing car had a sober driver. The deputies had arrived at 12:02 a.m. according to the police dispatcher’s log in Winona. Three hours later there remained a dozen lingerers. Deputies put them to work picking up cans, bottles litter and trash in the dark. At dawn there was still lots of litter and also the still smoldering bonfire a quarter up d Beaver Creek Stret. The narrow dirt road is near the State Highway 74 and County Road 30 junction, It’s dead-end used for huntg and fjshg access into the state’s Whitewater Management Area. It’s remote with no farms or homes nearby and normally only little night traffic on roads up and down the lower Whitewater River from Elba.

A single arrest

The only arrest was of a juvenile from Rochester. A party-goer had pointed deputies to her behind the wheel of car partially blocking access to Beaver Street Road. She was too drunk to drive, the worried arty-goer said. Deputies got her out of the car. Her eyes were bloodshot and watery and her speech muddled. She failed the usual law enforcement field sobriety tests for balance and dexterity. By the time deputies had her at jail in Winona, 20 miles away, her blood-alcohol level still was exceeding the 0.08% legal impairment level. She was charged with drunken driving and under-age consumption.

Resistance

Although there was a bonfire, most partiers were milling in small groups around their haphazardly parked vehicles up and down narrow Beaver Creek Street. Most were chatting amiably in the warm humid night air, albeit some loudly with extreme gesticulation and animation. There was no evidence of kegs or organized music. This was no Woodstock nor a 1990s commercial rave. It was re a BYOB and pass-it-around affair. Deputies said some partiers were mildly belligerent about having their good time interrupted and objected to being told to disband. None resisted physically. Deputies heard that one person had brandished a gun before they arrived but had not actually pointed it any anyone.

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Extreme northwest Winona County. To find the party site, first identify deny these landmarks:

> Mississippi River in blue at the upper right.

> The town of Elba in gray at the lower left.

> The Whitewater River flowing straight upward from Elba along State Highway 74 in red.

> Go to the crossing of Highway 74 and County Road 30, also in red. Known locally as Beaver Junction.

> You’re almost there, but you may need to squint. Beaver Creek, in light italics, flows from the left to Beaver Junction.

> Beaver Creek Drive, in blue, is a dead0end angled straight southwest down from County 30.

Earlier: Rural wingding ends quickly, just in time

4August 2024

State Fair’s food fare /14

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August 22 to September 2

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PB bacon cakes. Thick-cut bacon dipped in pancake batter, griddled and topped with peanut butter whipped cream, grape jelly and banana chips. At the Blue Barn at West End Market, south of the History and Heritage Center.

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Raging ball. Deep-fried sesame mochi dough ball with vegan cheeseburger filling. Made with house-made vegan burger mix, vegan cheddar cheese, grilled onions and pickles. Topped with bacon-flavored powdered sugar. Gluten-friendly and vegan. At the Herbivorous Butcher, in the Food Building, west section, south wall.

4August 2024

Hicks calls graffiti attack terroristic, cowardly

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In happier moment. With husband LaMar Hicks and six of their eight children. She is on the right. As a legislator she represents District 25-A from northwest Rochester and outlying adjacent areas of Olmsted County.

Legislator: Hate messages now painted over

ROCHESTER, Minn. — State legislator Kim Hicks, whose home was plastered by vandals with racist and antisemitic imagery, called the attack a violation of her family in “one of the most terrible ways imaginable.” The graffiti attack included a swastika, a triple KKK and the demeaning insult “nigger.” Said Hicks: “My family experienced terroristic threats perpetuated by cowards who came masked and in the night. Hate and racism has no place in any community, and the fact my children have to experience it firsthand makes me angry and sad.” Hicks, whe is white, has eight children, some adopted, from mixed race backgrounds. She thanked neighbors and supporters of all different backgrounds who responded by helping paint over the hateful symbols.

Verbatim

Hicks about the vandals: “They are fear mongering. They wore masks because they are ashamed of what they believe.”

4August 2024

Twanger Neal McCoy leads off Ashley concerts

ARCADIA, Wis.  – Main stage at the Ashley for the Arts festival this weekend, sponsored by the Arcadia-based furniture manufacturer, leans as always to country performers. Four acts a day are planned for both Friday and Saturday. On other stags are regional and local acts. There also are dozens of booths and activities. The three-day festival has been attracting 50,000 people in recent years with profits earmarked for charities and schools in the region. Over the past 15 years, $3.5 million has been donated to area organizations. Three-day passes are $55 to $65, less for kids. Main stage performers:

Friday
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3 p.m., Neal McCoy. Country singer whose break-out was “Where Forever Begins” in 1992. Has 10 studio albums,34 singles o. Back-to-back Number One singles with “No Doubt About It” and “Wink.”

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5 p.m., Vertical Horizon. Alternative rock band formed in 1991 at George Washington University. Best known for “Everything You Want,” “You’re a God,” “Grey Sky Morning,” “I’m Still Here.”

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7 p.m., The Script. Irish rock band formed in 2001 in Dublin. Debut album “We Cry” included “The Man Who Can’t Be Moved,” “Breakeven,” “Before the Worst.” Other albums: “Silence and Faith” in 20101, #3” in 2012, “No Sound Without Silence n 2014, “Sunsets and Full Moons: in 2019.

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9 p.m., Journey. Rock band formed in San Fancisco in 1973 by former members of Santana, the Steve Miller Band, and Frumnious Bandersnatch. Works include “Don’t Stop Believing” in 1981, the album “Escape,” and the album Frontiers.” Have had 25 gold and platinum albums.

Saturday
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3 p.m., Tigirlily Gold. Country music sisters Kendra and Krista Slaubaugh of Hazen, North Data, now Nashville. known for early cover songs. First album Blonde” included their “Shoot Tequila” in 2023. Released the single “I Tried a Ring On” in 2024, and also their debut studio album “Blonde.”

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5 p.m., LoCash. Country duo with thee studio albums. Single include “I Know Somebody.” Co-wrote Keith Urban’s “You Gonna Fly” and Tim McGraw’s “Truck Yeah.” Originally known as LoCash Cowboys.

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7 p.m, Bret Michaels. Albums include the 1998 soundt ack for “A Letter from Death Row.” The 2003 rock album “Songs of Life.” Other work includes the albu \s “Rock My Word” and “Custom Built” and he single “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.” Frontman for rock band Poison, which has sold over 65 million albums.

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9 p.m., Old Dominion. A Nashville band with five full-length albums and three EPs. Its debut studio albumi n 2015 was “Meet the Candy,” which included “Break Up with Him,” “Snapback” and “Song for Another Time.” The album “Happy Endings” included “No Such Thing as a Broken Heart. “Written in the Sand” and “Hotel Key.” Layer albums included “Make It Sweet” and “Some People Do.”

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