The tradition is borrowed from the Rose Sunday Festival of Weinheim-an-der-Bergstrasse in Germany. LSSU adopted the practice ...

Time kind of stops,” Kromer said. It did go fast. First came the fireworks, then Kromer went to the base of the wooden snowman with a torch. As the flames climbed, a huge cheer went up from the ...

“We’ll just do a little countdown, welcome in spring, and we will set the snowman on fire with a torch and watch it burn,” said Carrie Will, Caro’s Parks and Recreation superintenden ...