The corner of 25th Avenue and Division Street in St. Cloud has been home to a seasonal Dairy Queen for more than six decades, but that will come to an end on Sunday, Sept. 2. "Hopefully, we can send everyone away happy one last time," said owner Bob Lahr. The tiny vintage cement building is being demolished to make room for a new CVS Pharmacy. A new Dairy Queen location just south of the existing building is set to open in February.

Dairy Queen recently opened its 500th store in China, where the Green Tea Blizzard dessert is the No. 1 seller. The Minnesota-based company has more than 270 outlets in Thailand and expanded into Singapore last year.

John Gainor, chief executive officer of International Dairy Queen, told Bloomberg TV the Edina-based chain plans to open several stores in New York, including Staten Island Ferry Station and Manhattan by the end of this year.

Kari Wigton was a cheerleader and 1960 graduate of St. Cloud Tech, who later moved to California and spent 35 years married to legendary television host Dick Clark. Clark died Wednesday of a heart attack at age 82

St. Matthew's School in St. Paul shut its doors for good Friday after 125 years. The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis closed the historic school as part of its multi-year restructuring plan, where 21 parishes will merge into 14 by 2013.

St. Cloud-based Stearns Bank purchased all of the assets of the three-branch Jasper Banking Co. of Jasper, Ga., after regulators shut the bank down Friday, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Since 2008, Stearns has purchased eight failed banks in government-assisted sales.