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Now that 2024 election is over, here’s where to recycle your yard signs
The election season is finally over, but voters who displayed their support for candidates and issues with a plastic yard sign shouldn’t just throw them away.
Signs backing Donald Trump or Kamala Harris or the local school levy are recyclable. But not in the typical curbside bin.
Instead, several counties and cities in the Twin Cities metro are providing drop-off locations for residents to recycle political signs.
Keep in mind, some candidates and political parties will pick up their signs and use them again. But if that doesn’t happen, recycling is the way to go.
Angie Timmons of Hennepin County Environmental Services says several drop-off locations will be available from Nov. 12 through Nov 26.
“This work is in response to the many inquiries we would get this time of year,” Timmons said, noting it was one of the first ways the county was expanding the collection of hard-to-recycle items. “This is a small, but meaningful effort that aligns both with our priority actions to reinvent the solid waste system and address community concerns about plastics.”
St. Paul is accepting signs Saturday and the Washington County Environmental Center in Woodbury also takes them. Metal stakes should always be removed from the signs and can be recycled separately at scrap metal drop offs.
Cities and counties typically send the signs they collect to Choice Plastics, an industrial scrap plastic recycler and broker. The company was founded in 2001 and has an 80,000 square-foot facility in Mound.
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Maple Grove remains undefeated with an exclamation point, routing Edina 35-0 in Class 6A high school football playoffs
Consider the question answered. Perhaps not officially, but as close as it gets.
The question: Can anyone beat Maple Grove? After the Crimson pummeled Edina 42-12 in Thursday’s Class 6A quarterfinal at Park Center, it appears the answer is no.
Edina seemed positioned to challenge the No. 1-ranked Crimson’s dominance, but Maple Grove took control of the game early.
The Crimson scored 21 first-half points on an 18-yard run by Charles Langama, a 29-yard pass from Kaden Harney to Oliver Walseth and a 1-yard run by Harney and led 21-0 at halftime.
Maple Grove cemented its victory with a pair of Bo Draheim touchdowns early in the third quarter. He followed a 1-yard scoring run with a 30-yard reception for a TD and a 35-0 lead.
Edina made the score a little more respectable in the fourth quarter with touchdowns by Chase Bjorgaard and Meyer Swinney.
Maple Grove improved to 11-0. Edina fell to 8-3.
”If we leave the conference room after a meeting and somebody leaves trash on the table, Susie’s the person to grab the trash and put it in the trash can,” said Chris LaCivita, who served as campaign co-chair along with Wiles.
Another of her three posts on X this year was in the closing days of the campaign, clapping back after billionaire Mark Cuban remarked that Trump didn’t have ”strong, intelligent women” in his orbit. After Wiles’ selection as White House chief of staff, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a Trump backer, quipped on X that the president-elect had chosen a ”strong, intelligent woman” as his chief of staff.
She can control some of Trump’s worst impulses
Wiles was able to help control Trump’s worst impulses — not by chiding him or lecturing, but by earning his respect and showing him that he was better off when he followed her advice than flouted it. At one point late in the campaign, when Trump gave a widely criticized speech in Pennsylvania in which he strayed from his talking points and suggested he wouldn’t mind the media being shot, Wiles came out to stare at him silently.
Trump often referenced Wiles on the campaign trail, publicly praising her leadership of what he said he was often told was his ”best-run campaign.”
”She’s incredible. Incredible,” he said at a Milwaukee rally earlier this month.
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Prolific record-breaking angler Art Weston, with help from Minnesota’s Nolan Sprengeler, caught 54-inch muskie on Mille Lacs
To that Sprengeler yelled back, “I know!”
After netting the fish, the fishermen looked at each other and Weston remembered shouting in excitement, “It’s long!”
In similar fashion, Sprengeler responded, “I know!” telling Weston “I think this is the one.”
After measuring and taking photos, the massive muskie was released safely.
Sprengeler, who didn’t respond to requests for comment Thursday, is no stranger to huge muskies. In November 2021, Sprengeler, of Plymouth, landed a massive muskie of his own on Mille Lacs that measured 57 3/4-inch and weighed 55 pounds and 14 ounces. For that catch, Sprengeler and two friends had to break the ice for about 100 yards to get his boat into open water on the lake’s west end.
The weather was more cooperative during the most recent trip.
