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Testing the new mountain biking trail
Elias Featherly (orange shirt) and Glenn Olson (background, blue top) take a break from trail building to test out a berm on a portion of a new mountain biking trail Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 at Spirit Mountain in Duluth, Minn.
Derek Montgomery for MPR News/Read the story here

Duluth is building bike trails, there's a labor dispute at the Minnesota Orchestra, the Lynx are playing in the WNBA Western Conference Finals and wildfires scorch parts of northwestern Minnesota. All that and more in our photos of the week.

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Escaping storm
A woman walks toward Babb's Coffee House in Fargo, N.D. on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 to escape from a winter storm that hit the Red River Valley overnight.
MPR Photo/Nathaniel Minor/Read the story here
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Testing the new mountain biking trail
Elias Featherly (orange shirt) and Glenn Olson (background, blue top) take a break from trail building to test out a berm on a portion of a new mountain biking trail Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 at Spirit Mountain in Duluth, Minn.
Derek Montgomery for MPR News/Read the story here
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Maxfield Elementary classroom
Students at Maxfield Elementary School in St. Paul, shown here on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, are spending more time on reading and math in an effort to raise test scores. Maxfield is one of 130 Minnesota schools that has filed an improvement plan with the state.
MPR Photo/Tim Post/Read the story here