Beware of ice phantoms

Persistent cold temperatures can sometimes yield unworldly ice formations. New Rockford water plant manager Rick Swenson stopped in the Transcript on Thursday, Feb. 11 to inform us that an ice stalagmite had formed in the back of the Transcript office building.

You better believe that the whole staff battled subzero temperatures to take a look. A seven-foot-tall ghost-like ice formation had fo...