Easily the most gorgeous picture of the day. It comes from the Hastings Star-Gazette, which is providing terrific coverage of the engineering marvel happening today — the floating of the new center section of the Highway 61 bridge. (Click for larger image)
You can also follow the progress via Twitter.
And the City of Hastings has additional images from the bridge on its Facebook page.
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