This Small Town

Small-town gossip is notorious and the line between gossip and news is not always obvious. Allison digs into how news is made with former KTRF News Director Key Teeters, and recalls the day a workplace proclamation sent a fast food restaurant into a spiral.  

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Allison looks forward and backward at the business of business and finds a thriving little shop in a town of less than 600 people, with a surprising and unlikely backstory.

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Allison dives into the deep end of a longstanding public pool controversy, and it's the fight of the century when Hot Dish and Ham Buns duke it out at a funeral. 




Note: An earlier draft of this episode contained an error, which has since been corrected. Both Josh Hagen and Jerald Brown pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct.

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A man without a written will leaves his daughter a surprise business, Onata Stoppel catches air, kubb rivals face off over a coupon book, and we cruise the dubs. There's a lot to get up to in This Small Town...if you know where to look. 

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In episode two of This Small Town, something spooky is in the air when Allison visits surprising small-town metaphysical shop Mystic Raven's Spiritual Haven, followed by a historical UFO in Marshall County, an encounter with the Ghost of Sherack, and the horrors of haunting gelatin-based salads. Can she survive the sinister shadows lurking behind the ham shed, or will she be utterly consumed by the barrels of cyanide in the ba...

In the first episode of This Small Town, writer Allison Page tries to figure out how people find love in a place where dating apps are full of cousins and exes. Historian Donna Myhrer spills the beans on a woman in early 1900s Thief River Falls who scandalously flouted convention. And you'll get some crucial local lingo under your belt: Uffda! 

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Introducing This Small Town, a podcast about the culture of one quirky little northern Minnesota town you’ve probably never heard of.

Writer and comedian Allison Page grew up in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, and moved away 15 years ago. Now she’s back to take you along to the county fair, her class reunion, a haunted crystal shop, and all the nooks and crannies of TRF that only someone who grew up there can show you. 
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