It’s mid-August and back-to-school season is approaching! Here are some fun back-to-school statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Retail Federation. • Did you know that 2 billion ...
MINNEAPOLIS — The annual “Sharpening” celebration drew crowds Saturday afternoon to the Lake of the Isles home of John and Amy Higgins, where a 20-foot pencil sculpture stands as a neighborhood ...
People from as far as California, Georgia and Maryland packed a Minneapolis lawn Saturday to watch two men sharpen a giant pencil. It was the fourth annual sharpening, a free event in the yard of a ...
Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Throngs of people gathered Saturday in a scenic ...
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Annual giant pencil sharpening in Minneapolis
The owners of LOTI Pencil in Minneapolis are hosting a party for their annual sharpening event on Saturday. FOX 9 spoke to the pencil owner, John Higgins, about the storm that damaged the tree, a ...
MINNEAPOLIS — More than 1,000 people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil. The 20-foot-tall (6-meter-tall) pencil was ...
MINNEAPOLIS ― When is a pencil not just a pencil? When it’s on John and Amy Higgins’ lawn across from Lake of the Isles, is 20 feet tall and gets an annual public sharpening that draws crowds of more ...
Now every year, about a foot of the sculpture is sharpened off and a celebration ensues. This year that celebration is happening on June 7 at 1 p.m. Expect dancing, music from the University of ...
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