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April 9, 2024

Cargill grant helps Art Space in Granite Falls

The nonprofit Department of Transformation is renovating a building in Granite Falls to promote a rural arts and creative economy and recently received a boost to help that goal.  The West Central Tribune reports The Cargill Foundation last week awarded its YES! House project $250,000.  The project is a community space being developed in a […]

April 9, 2024

Watkins man injured in crash

A Watkins man was injured in a one-vehicle crash in Stearns County Friday morning and authorities believe alcohol was a factor and they say the driver’s cell phone alerted them of the crash.  The Sheriff’s Office says 61-year-old James Rusthoven was initially southbound on County Road 9 approaching the stop sign at County Road 17, […]

April 8, 2024

Driver injured in Hutchinson crash

One driver was injured in a two-vehicle crash in Hutchinson this morning (Monday). The State Patrol says 41-year-old Deborah Ring of Dassel was taken to Hutchinson Health for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. She was driving a vehicle northbound on Highway 15. The driver of the other vehicle, 20-year-old Benjamin Anderson of Hutchinson, was traveling […]

April 8, 2024

Information sought on 1982 Cold Case

It was around 11 p.m. on April 3, 1982, when Theodore “Ted” Dengerud left his New London home to pick up his wife from her sister’s house. He didn’t know the area well and stopped to ask for directions. A short time later his vehicle crashed into a tree just west of Sunberg, MN. It […]

April 8, 2024

Severe Weather Awareness Week

Today (Monday) begins Severe Weather Awareness Week and will run through Friday. Each day is devoted to a specific topic. They are: Monday- Alerts and Warnings, Tuesday- Severe Weather, Lightning and Hail, Wednesday- Floods, Thursday- Tornadoes (with statewide tornado drills), Friday- Extreme Heat. The annual statewide tornado drills are scheduled for Thursday, April 11, 2024, […]

April 5, 2024

Hutchinson Leader, Litchfield Independent Review, 8 other Newspapers to close

(Hutchinson, MN) — Ten Minnesota newspapers and a printing facility in McLeod County will cease operations later this month.  The Hutchinson Leader and the Meeker County Advertiser will publish their last editions on April 24th, followed by the Chaska Herald, the Chanhassen Villager, and the Jordan Independent on April 25th.  Shakopee Valley News, the Prior […]

April 5, 2024

Hutchinson man guilty of Criminal Sexual Conduct

GLENCOE, MN—A McLeod County jury has found a Hutchinson man guilty of criminal sexual conduct.  Following a three day trial, the jury found 35-year-old Jacob James Smith guilty of one count of Criminal Sexual Conduct in the First Degree, one count of Criminal Sexual Conduct in the Second Degree, and one count of Electronic Solicitation […]

April 5, 2024

Willmar Woman sentenced in rape case

A Willmar woman has been sentenced to a year in jail for assisting in a rape that happened in 2022. Twenty-two-year-old Kelsey Jones was sentenced to 360 days in the Renville County Jail for helping a man rape a teenager in Danube in July of 2022. Jones will serve her jail sentence in 4 separate […]

April 4, 2024

Attempted Abduction in Meeker County

The Meeker County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s assistance for information regarding an attempted juvenile abduction. On Wednesday (April 3) at 7:52 PM, the Meeker County Sheriff’s Office received a report of an attempted juvenile abduction in the area of Highway 9 and Highway 33 in Ellsworth Township (Lake Stella Area). Authorities say […]

April 4, 2024

Chippewa County Cannabis Moratorium

Chippewa County has placed a moratorium on issuing licenses for cannabis sales. The West Central Tribune reports the unanimous vote by the County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday gives the county until Jan. 1, 2025, to adopt regulations on cannabis sales in the county. Scott Williams, land and resource management director for the county, proposed […]
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