Shout out to @SHAREMediaBK for the drone video! 🎉

Great review.

Best bacon you’ll find is here in Fairmont!

Can't wait!

Can't wait!

You should check out Galena, IL - the cutest little town I’ve ever driven through

Iowa is underrated. Extremely friendly culture and fairly low cost of living/housing, even in places that seem to have a decent economy. I had never been prior to working as a longhaul truck driver and now it's on a short list of states I could see myself buying a home and moving to If you can deal with cold/windy winters and a lack of trees, Iowa and Nebraska are fantastic states

This needs more study. How many are living in rural areas because they are still living with their parents and can’t afford to move to the cities as has been the trend for decades. Also what opportunities?

MORE LIKE YOU FORCING ME AND ISOLATING ME!!!!!

STOP BRAINWASHING ME!!!!

Great stories that you covered but it’s titled Iowa lakes corridor and not one story was from the actual heart of that corridor Okoboji-Spirit Lake

Wonderful. Thanks for this great episode, Cory!

Gotta go out to donkey hill and get that shot my dude!

Well, this explain's the mysterious "drone" flying over my house when you filmed this! Was doing yard work and saw it moving around. I live right by the water tower. Nice job on the "My Town" episode of our town.

I grew up in Chisholm as well and we go cliff jumping in those pits right across from that dock

My hometown ❤ watching from Eden Prairie. I took it all for granted growing up there . Northern MN is my heaven on earth!

These are fantastic! Watching from Northern NY

My mom and dad live in Chisholm. They met and started their beautiful journey together in the 70’s. They moved to Cali for 30 years and moved back in the 2000’s. I’ve been summering there and spending Christmases there since a child. I’m still in Cali but I would move there in a hot second if I could. 💕 I absolutely LOVE visiting them there in Chisholm. My kiddos love it. There is a kindness there not seen in Cali. Chisholm people, appreciate what you have! The beauty and calm is real!

Cow tipping? Wanna see some one do that

I LOVE EATING IORN

MY HOMETOWN!! Thanks!

The Tax on Iron Ore was directly sent back to the IRON RANGE to beautify the various places. People want to live and work in nice places. If only our politicians would like us instead of hating on us all the time in St PAUL Minneapolis

I so enjoyed your video. I was born and raised in Chisholm. I loved Chisholm and got a great education. I moved to Duluth for college and then settled in Grand Rapids. Never wanted a big city life. Yes Northern MN is the best. Thank you for bringing this great video out about Chisholm, mining and the beauty it has to offer. 😊

Thanks for the comments, going to try to respond to the ones I didn't get to earlier!

FYI: Rugby - and "My Town" - were featured in a major article on successful small towns. Read HERE: "Series, NDSU Thesis Explore What Makes Small Towns Successful" www.inforum.com/news/north-dakota/series-ndsu-thesis-explore-what-makes-small-towns-successful

Grateful for all of the comments! Going to try to respond to as many as I can!

Love all of the comments! I'm going to try and respond to as many as possible. Please keep sharing your rural experience!

Very well produced and excellent story telling! Thank you for representing Chisholm so well. I didn’t see a lot of the area’s beauty growing up, but I do now and will be “coming home” in the near future!

I think Bowman, N.D. would make a great town for this series. It's basically a self-sufficient island at least 80 miles from anything, and it has a lot of stories of younger families who either stayed or moved back and did good things there.

I'm almost done watching season one and it's amazing! Please, keep making more!

Last year I biked RAGBRI and I love the small towns of Iowa. Storm lake is one of the towns we biked through on RAGBRI 50! I remember coming into Storm Lake and being so welcomed. There were streets lined with people ready to see us.

I am watching from a small town in northern Minnesota. As a Norwegian I laughed at your lutefisk and lefse joke. We are big lefse fans in this house. I have biked through the MinnWest Technology Campus and never knew what it was but thought the building were beautiful. It's so cool to know a little history of the campus now.

I live in a small town and I totally understand how going into town is a 2-3 hour journey or maybe all day.

Biggest question is….are you coming home?

What a great video! I am from Chisholm and spent my childhood and high school years making videos showcasing our unique town and land. Thank you for sharing our story!

grew up on the range specifically the mesabi needs to be more appriciated in our state

Watching from Mpls victory memorial parkway and after watching series I have thoughts off moving back to Meeker county area to slow the hustle an bussel life since wife and I will be empty nesters in late 2025. Thanks you and your crews hard work for this. I couldn't wait for Sun evening to watch. Bye the way you keep on going this way you don't need cities to be in media anymore streaming on any platform is the new T.V.

Another great story of a rural MN town. Just think,vthere are small rural towns all across the United States! This country is way more than the big cities!

Where is everyone watching from?

Way to many Tornadoes

So interesting!! Great work!

Wow! 🦬 are so intimidating!!! This episode was SO fun to watch!

Watching from Casselton - loved these stories! Bravo!

Yeah I grew up in rugby and I agree with Nate he was actually two classes above me if I am correct and I liked it too I just wished you talked to more people from the community like I loved Kevin as a teacher for 3 separate class and had to put up with him as a football coach 😂 and I was a class clown a bit too so he probably remembers the extra stress of our antics 😂 but I just wished talked to more people from the community it was a 20 min video and all learned was everything I knew about Kevin already 😂 like our band Kari Hill still works there and I don’t think the music program at rugby was ever as good until she came along it was like game changing good. We have a crazy gymnasium that I ever seen and they’ve updated it since I’ve seen it last 😂 The point is there just even more cool stuff I wished you would have touched on but besides that it was great but also sad you didn’t touch on the geographic center of north of America 😂

Yeah I grew up in rugby and I agree with Nate he was actually two classes above me if I am correct and I liked it too I just wished you talked to more people from the community like I loved Kevin as a teacher for 3 separate class and had to put up with him as a football coach 😂 and I was a class clown a bit too so he probably remembers the extra stress of our antics 😂 but I just wished talked to more people from the community it was a 20 min video and all learned was everything I knew about Kevin already 😂 like our band Kari Hill still works there and I don’t think the music program at rugby was ever as good until she came along it was like game changing good. We have a crazy gymnasium that I ever seen and they’ve updated it since I’ve seen it last 😂 The point is there just even more cool stuff I wished you would have touched on but besides that it was great but also sad you didn’t touch on the geographic center of north of America 😂

I worked in Rugby for years( Shopko Pamida). I lived in Bottineau. Great area of the country

This was a fun piece to watch.

Thank you Cory for coming to Rugby. You chose a great panel from Rugby to give an inside look at this town. Kevin was a great teacher that gave me a push to toward my passion of video production! Ashley and Erik are great examples of this towns entrepreneurship as well! My only criticism I have on your content is its pacing. I get it is your story Cory, but your cuts to your commentary, from the main story, are jarring. I think you are amazing at getting an engaging video, your news background shows so well in this piece, but the cuts to you in the studio remove the viewer from the over arching story. I know you are in your first season and working out the kinks, but I think this thing could go so much further with a different style of editing. My personal opinion is that you need to remove yourself a little more. Everything is there, but having you pop up on screen every 7 seconds to quip, is slowing down the message. Use your teams BROLL more, and just use VO to continue the whole experience. This will let viewers remember who the story is about. I am no expert, but this is just my view, I am hoping it comes across as constructive and in no way critical. I love this content and hope to see more! Thank you for choosing my home town for your project! Keep telling these small town stories and wish you nothing but sucess, coming from a new subscriber!

I had Kevin as a teacher he was so fun and Mr Olson. He taught History which he woke up a passion I never knew I had . I'm proud to say I work at the museum in rugby

EXCELLENT.....AGAIN