PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — The 2024 Royal Rosarians Milk Carton Boat Race brought hundreds of competitors and spectators to Westmoreland Park on Sunday, June 23. The race netted 4,420 gallons ...

Milk carton boat racing is back. When Minneapolis Aquatennial discontinued its Beach Bash event on Lake Calhoun in 2015, that meant the loss of the summer festival's sand castle contest and milk ...

On a sunny Sunday afternoon in Southeast Portland, hundreds of people gathered to drink milk, eat cheese and watch boats race around a city pond. It was all a part of the annual Portland Rose Festival ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – From "Milk Carton Boat Races" to "Milk Carton Boat Portage Races." This year's Twin Cities Beach Blast races have been moved due to the poor water quality at Lake Bde Maka Ska's ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A boat racing tradition in Minneapolis looked a little different this year. The Milk Carton Boat Races took place on land. They were supposed to be on Thomas Beach on Bde Maka Ska ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Have you ever wanted to captain your own milk carton boat? You can make that dream a reality! The Royal Rosarian Foundation is accepting applications for the 2024 Milk Carton ...

Mount Vista — The fearsomely seaworthy “Jug-R-Not,” engineered by Tad Winiecki, took a couple of first places in the Dairy Farmers of Oregon Milk Carton Boat Race on June 11 at the casting pond in ...

The Rose Festival milk carton boat races are returning after a six-year hiatus, so experienced boat builders might be hard to find with a long break in the tradition. To help fill the gap, the Dairy ...

School's out for the afternoon, and the rain has stopped. No wonder the two boys play outside. Up and down a leafy street in Southeast Portland, they pedal unicycles and joust with rubber swords. Soon ...

Just off Privateer Boulevard in the hamlet of Jean Lafitte, Ronald Dufrene and a small crew of shrimpers are bedding down for Hurricane Gustav in the safest place they know: the cockpit of the hulking ...