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On the Dull Side: Sauk Centre General Info.One of three (*yawn*) exciting sections About 3900 people live in Sauk Centre. This town is at the intersection of Interstate 94 and Highway 71, near the center of Minnesota. Critically-acclaimed author Sinclair Lewis wrote a prize-winning, critically-acclaimed novel which featured a fictional re-hash of this place. That's why a major east-west artery is called Sinclair Lewis Avenue, and the street signs on Main say "The Original Main Street." At one time, exactly how big you thought Sauk Centre was depended partly on which road you took, coming into town. The signs outside town to the east, southeast and northwest said 3571 for quite a few years, while the ones on Highway 71 north and south used to say 3581. Sometime before mid-January of 2002 the signs on Highway 71 were updated to read 3930: a much more up-to-date figure. The sign to the east was moved but not replaced in 2001, when two (at least) residential areas were added to Sauk Centre's east side. (by June of 2004, the remaining signs had been updated to read 3930, too.) Today we have two traffic lights, one at the corner of Main Street and Sinclair Lewis Avenue, downtown, and the other just north of the Interstate. In the mid-nineties there was one traffic light, downtown. The downtown traffic light was modified to allow protected left turns when the Highway 71 bridge work was being done, north of town. There was so much improvement in traffic flow (and fewer accidents), that the change was made permanent. |
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