Cottage Grove

Yeah, I think it is straight, yeah, straight 52 all the way out.

Any listeners in even, like, Woodbury, Cottage Grove, um, Apple Valley-

Yeah

... i- if you live in that general area, figure out how long it takes to drive to Hastings.

And we're gonna start with Katherine, because long before everyone knew her name from the news, she was a whole funny, complicated, and very alive person.

Katherine grew up in a place called Cottage Grove, Minnesota.

Her dad, Rolf Olson, was a Lutheran pastor, and her mom, Nancy, was an English teacher.

She also had an older sister, Sarah, and a younger brother, Carl, and they were really close.

And Katherine was smart.

And I don't mean, like, a little smart, I mean really smart.

In two thousand two, she graduated as co-valedictorian of her class at Park High School in Cottage Grove, and then she went off to St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

And in two thousand six, she graduated summa cum laude, which means top honors, I think, and she got a double degree in theater and Hispanic studies.

[gentle music] The Vikings, the Vikings may never give us another dud stable as long as the defense keeps playing like this.

So it's, it's our guy Randy in Cottage Grove, randyvike69, who you can find, uh, on Twitter and/or X, whatever, uh, whatever you like to call it.

He's the most passionate Vikings fan we know, and we'll get his week five stud stable here.

Shout out to Legit Pizza for powering the OG Score North podcast, Mackey & Judd.

But quite frankly, we have the same challenges here.

We were at the Cottage Grove fire station, To talk a little bit about the challenges that Cottage Grove faces and some of the agencies around in my district that they face and how similar they are to the challenges we see in the Northland.

For example, Cottage Grove recently had to give up part of its primary service area, the geographical area that their ambulance service covers, because it just wasn't financially viable for them.

They were losing money.

And the same thing is happening in Senator Hochschild's district.

Whether you're new to the business or you've been in it for years, I guarantee that you're coming in with insight, a fresh new strategy that will make your services more-

Hi, this is Mary from Cottage Grove again.

Just another thought.

People who live in suburbs think that they're very safe.

What today's show has shown me is that even though I live in Cottage Grove, there has not been gang violence there yet.

Obviously, these young people have cars, and wherever they wanna do their violence, they will do it.

And if this whole state does not get their you know what together, we are all vulnerable, and we all need to be vigilant.

Actor Sean William Scott is 50.

He was born in Cottage Grove, Minnesota in 1976.

Probably best known for playing Stifler in the American Pie movies, but he's also been in Dude, Where's My Car?, Road Trip, The Rundown, The Dukes of Hazzard.

Yeah, he's Bo Duke.

Whatever.

We're at the food truck festival for Cottage Grove at Kingston Park.

What's a Cottage

Grove? A city.

Oh, where? In case somebody's watching this in 2032 and they're just like, what's a Cottage Grove? Google

it.

The city of Cottage Grove is a city.

That's a very