The neon signs out front still said Lee’s, but all the regulars knew the beloved Minneapolis watering hole belonged to Louie Sirian. Texas honky-tonker Dale Watson even wrote a song about it, titled ...

Star Tribune journalist Bob Franklin loved a good yarn. There were the stories he wrote about the bachelors of Herman, Minn., who outnumbered single women by eight to one. The town’s economic ...

Kierlin died Monday in Winona, according to his obituary. A former Minnesota state senator, he was best known for founding ...

Kierlin was notoriously frugal, but generous with the community, helping found and fund Winona’s Minnesota Marine Art Museum.