COVID-19 vaccines boosting area tourism
Plan are in the works for Senior Games, Alive After Five, Songs on the Lawn and Mankato Marathon
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MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) - Tourism has been low in a lot of areas amid the pandemic, but with upticks in vaccines that could be a different story in a couple of months.
The planning process for summer and fall events is in full effect for Visit Mankato, City Center Partnership, Greater Mankato Growth and GreenSeam.
Plan are in the works for Senior Games, Alive After Five, Songs on the Lawn and Mankato Marathon.
Over half of all eligible Minnesotans receive at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (KEYC) - About 56 percent of eligible Minnesotans have now received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, with about 1.8 million people fully vaccinated.
In Blue Earth County, about 38 percent of the population is fully vaccinated.
In total, 2,507,381 Minnesotans have received one vaccine dose, and 1,857,191 have completed vaccine series.
The Minnesota Department of Health reports 1,921 new cases of COVID-19. The total accumulative number of cases in Minnesota since the pandemic began is 573,938. Of those total cases, 41,288 are health care workers.
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Mankato man arrested, charged with 3rd-degree murder in overdose death FILE A Mankato man was arrested Wednesday on charges of third-degree murder. By KEYC Staff | April 21, 2021 at 3:53 PM CDT - Updated April 21 at 3:59 PM
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) A Mankato man was arrested Wednesday on charges of third-degree murder.
Authorities report that agents with the Minnesota River Valley Drug Task Force arrested 21-year-old Max Leo Miller, of Mankato, for third-degree murder. Miller was arrested as part of the investigation into the February overdose death of 21-year-old Travis Gustavson, also of Mankato.
On Feb. 24, Mankato Department of Public Safety officers and Mayo Clinic Ambulance Service were called to the home of Travis Gustavson after a family member found him unresponsive. First responders were unable to revive Gustavson.
A Minneapolis policeman looks down Plymouth Ave in Minneapolis on July 21, 1967, hours before hundreds of National Guard troops arrive to patrol Black communities as part of a larger movement against Black rebellions in the 60s [Robert Walsh/AP Photo]
Minnesota, like every other US state, begins with a lie. Explore Minnesota tourism ads present the state as a natural paradise, as if the US military-occupied land of Mni Sota Makoce is God-country, some blessing bestowed upon God’s own settler-colony.
Popular culture presents a narrative about the state as pure and as white as the opening scene of Fargo. The upper Midwest is full of hearty, plaid and parka-wearers and white homemaking mom’s you betcha and don’tcha know-ing over a stack of unfinished pancakes as the ruddy-cheeked children grab their hockey sticks and run out to the frozen-over pond.