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Rainy Lake resort sells for $3.2M to its longest-tenured employee originally appeared on Bring Me The News. Joe Mershon is an expert on island life. He commutes to work almost daily from his island ...

Thousands of sandbags are in place, docks are weighted down and now residents and resort owners on rain-swollen Rainy Lake will spend the weekend waiting, and watching, to see how high the rising ...

Joe Mershon is an expert on island life. He commutes to work almost daily from his island home on Rainy Lake to the remote destination's only full-service, year-round resort, the Thunderbird Lodge, ...