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The process of imagining a community park began with the Ball Club Youth Group in April 2017 as they witnessed the difficulties one of their friends goes through in her wheelchair. Creating an accessible and inclusive park that also honored their Ojibwe culture became their goal. The park wi…
Monday, June 10:
A Nashwauk man was sentenced Monday to more than 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting a minor girl between 2012 and 2014.
A Bovey man has been charged with multiple crimes including four felonies after leading law enforcement in a pursuit Friday afternoon, June 14.
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GRAND RAPIDS — With the 44th annual Grand Rapids American Legion Baseball Invitational Baseball Tournament set to begin this weekend, it will be quite a weekend of baseball for area fans.
The Eastern Region of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) awarded the Enduring Service Award to the Northern Lights Nordic Ski Club at the Itasca Trails Taskforce meeting on June 13, 2019, held at the Fairgrounds Trail Building in Grand Rapids.
On Friday, the Grand Rapids Legion baseball team played a double header in Superior and the two teams won one game apiece. Superior took the first game 13-8 and Post 60 took the second one 12-8.
Randy Topper, from Cohasset, and his partner Chuck Hasse, of Walker, recently won big in the AIM Warrior Boats National Championship Shootout in Bismarck, N.D. The championship was a walleye shootout on the Missouri River. Topper and Hasse placed 5th last year at the Lake of the Woods State …
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Joyce Aileen (Bjorkquist) Neary was born on September 5, 1942 …
Donald Claude Darnell, 88, of Baraboo, Wisconsin, formerly of …
Roland Eugene Thompson, 61, of Grand Rapids, MN, formerly of B…
Memorial services will be held for Debbie Lignar (my sister) a…
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Our Grand Rapids Police Chief, Scott Johnson, recently wrote an excellent article in the Herald Review titled “Each Life is Precious” (May 29, 2019). Chief Johnson detailed the conundrum that our law enforcement face on a daily basis while protecting people with addictions and psychiatric co…
The young woman is laying on the motel room floor. The radio call dispatched to officers was that she wasn’t breathing. Deputy Steve Snyder quickly arrives at the motel and rushes through the door. Officer Ashley Moran comes in right behind him. The woman has no pulse. For all practical purp…
Americans are tired of half measures on climate change. Seven in ten Americans want utility companies to overhaul their operations and generate 100 percent of the nation’s electricity from renewables in the near future.
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