A decommissioned coal-fired power plant in western Minnesota crashed to the ground with a thunderous boom as part of a planned implosion that marks the end of an era in Granite Falls.Xcel Energy - the utility company that owns the Minnesota Valley Generating Station - used explosives Thursday morning to implode the nearly century-old structure as onlookers watched from a distance.
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