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Article: COLD WAR; Grand Rapids-Greenway of Coleraine boys' hockey is the best winter sports rivalry in Minnesota. The towns are just five miles apart, and have a long history of frigid relations thanks to their fierce fight for puck supremacy.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- February 3, 2004
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Byline: Michael Rand; Staff Writer
Grand Rapids, Minn. -- Mother Nature tried her best, but she should know better by now.
On Thursday and Friday, two of the coldest days in a decade in one of the coldest parts of the state, classes were canceled at Grand Rapids and Greenway (of Coleraine) high schools. Temperatures dipped to minus-30 (without the wind chill) and weather forecasts warned against exposed flesh. Cars made noises like wounded animals, if they started at all.
The question on everyone's mind, naturally, was this: Was it cold enough for Friday's boys' hockey game between Greenway and Grand Rapids to be postponed?
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