Edgar Hetteen has died, the Star Tribune reports.
He started a company that made newfangled machines called snowmobiles.
Here’s a profile of the man that MPR News did in 2004.
Here’s a piece Twin Cities Business Journal did on him a few years ago.
Photo: Original Polaris partners (l-r): David Johnson, Allan Hetteen and Edgar Hetteen. Source: Polaris
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins