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April 23, 2025

Stevens & Surrounding Counties Latest Unemployment Numbers Released

Stevens County’s unemployment rate ticked up 0.2 percent from February to 3.5 percent for the month of March in data released yesterday by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. But most other counties in the area trended downward in March. Big Stone County was at 4.9 percent unemployment, down 0.3 percent from February. […]

April 23, 2025

The Minnesota Speech Coaches Association Announce Speech Competitors

The Minnesota Speech Coaches Association (MSCA) has released the names of 128 speech competitors, representing 63 different high schools, who have earned a spot on the 2025 MSCA All-State Speech Team. Morris Area High School Senior Zachary Dietz has been named to this list. To qualify for All-State, speakers must attain a set of milestones […]

April 22, 2025

Community Members Invited to Mental Health Month Open House in Elbow Lake

Elbow Lake, MN – Community members are invited to join Lake Region Healthcare's Senior Life Solutions program for an open house at the Elbow Lake Medical Center, 1411 Hwy 79 E, on Thursday May 15, 2025 from 11AM – 1PM. “This event is the perfect opportunity for anyone interested in learning more about our program to come see our space, learn […]

April 22, 2025

Community Connection – Superintendent Shane Monson

Morris Area Schools Superintendent Shane Monson stopped by to let us know what happened at last night’s meeting.

April 22, 2025

Curtis H. Larson Award Winner: Riley Tollefsrud

Each year, faculty and graduating seniors at the University of Minnesota Morris select a student to receive the Curtis H. Larson Award. This award was established to honor U of M Morris’s first senior class speaker in 1964 and the recipient speaks on behalf of the graduates during the commencement ceremony. Riley Tollefsrud of Brainerd […]

April 22, 2025

This Week’s Blood Drives

This week’s Red Cross Blood Drives include 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at Alexandria Technical College; 12 to 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Dalton Community Center on Main Street in Dalton; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday at First Lutheran Church — Alexandria on 18th Avenue East. Call 1-800-RED-CROSS to make an appointment. […]

April 21, 2025

Morris School Board Cuts

The Morris School Board will meet 5:30 p.m. tonight in the Morris Area High School Media Center. On the agenda: a motion to approve a three-year leave of absence to Elementary Teacher Emily Garcia, as recommended by the Personnel Committee; a motion to approve the 2025-26 Minnesota Healthcare Consortium Insurance Renewal with Midwest Health Benefit […]

April 21, 2025

Motor Vehicle Chase in Kandiyohi County

A man has been arrested following a motor vehicle pursuit on Saturday morning in Raymond. A Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Deputy was conducting a traffic enforcement project in the road construction detour of Minnesota Hwy 23 and 105th Street SW. A truck, driven by a 40 year old male from Boyd, had entered the construction zone illegally. The […]

April 21, 2025

MnDOT begins Highway 12 construction April 27

ST. CLOUD, Minn. –The Minnesota Department of Transportation will launch a $9.4 million construction project on Highway 12 through Howard Lake, Waverly and Montrose. Crews will work from April 27 to mid-October 2025 to rebuild, resurface and improve pedestrian features along the highway. Work starts in Howard Lake on April 27, continues in Waverly in […]

April 21, 2025

Marathon Poetry Reading of “Attached to the Living World”

As part of the celebration of April as National Poetry Month, there will be a Marathon Poetry Reading of “Attached to the Living World,” an ecopoetry anthology hot off the press from Trinity University Press, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Cougar Room of the Student Center of the University of Minnesota […]