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Throngs of people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil. (AP video shot by: Mark Vancleave) Week 17 NFL ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The annual “Sharpening” celebration drew crowds Saturday afternoon to the Lake of the Isles home of John and Amy Higgins, where a 20-foot pencil sculpture stands as a neighborhood ...

People from as far as California, Georgia and Maryland packed a Minneapolis lawn Saturday to watch two men sharpen a giant pencil. It was the fourth annual sharpening, a free event in the yard of a ...

The owners of LOTI Pencil in Minneapolis are hosting a party for their annual sharpening event on Saturday. FOX 9 spoke to the pencil owner, John Higgins, about the storm that damaged the tree, a ...

MINNEAPOLIS — More than 1,000 people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil. The 20-foot-tall (6-meter-tall) pencil was ...

MINNEAPOLIS ― When is a pencil not just a pencil? When it’s on John and Amy Higgins’ lawn across from Lake of the Isles, is 20 feet tall and gets an annual public sharpening that draws crowds of more ...

When it’s on John and Amy Higgins’ lawn across from Lake of the Isles, is 20 feet tall and gets an annual public sharpening that draws crowds of more than 1,000 people. The giant pencil, known as LOTI ...

Senator Ron Johnson humiliated Secretary Kristi Noem during a Senate hearing today, telling her to 'sharpen her pencil' over border wall funding, which Johnson described as being 'over the top.' Billy ...