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Article: Golf carts offer another way to putter around town; The growing use of the vehicles on city roads as well as a new law spur interest and debate around the state.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 12, 2006
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Byline: Lora Pabst; Staff Writer
When Robert Wolf of Hendricks, Minn., takes his wife, Elizabeth, out for dinner, they hop in his golf cart to drive up the road to the Main Street Bar and Grill.
"I'm retired, so I take it to go to the park, to go fishing at the lake and to go to the grocery store," said the 61-year-old Wolf, whose southwest Minnesota community usually has several golf carts parked on its Main Street.
Golf carts have been a popular alternative mode of transportation in southern retirement communities for decades. Now, Minnesota snowbirds and others who like golf carts' maneuverability and price are increasingly getting a chance ...