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Minnesota Alliance With Youth has announced that Hannah Erickson of La Prairie has been selected to serve on the Minnesota Youth Council for a third term, representing MN Congressional District 8. Erickson is a junior at Greenway High School.
Last week, I wrote about how it is almost the middle of August, and now the middle of August is gone. Last week, I wrote about how I haven’t tackled cleaning my garage. That task is still not complete. However, it’s still August, and I have hoped that I can get everything accomplished before…
More than 4,000 veterans call Itasca County home, and more than 70% of them are aged 65 or older, said Veteran Services Officer Luke St. Germain, who provided the Itasca County Board of Commissioners with a Veteran Services Department update on Tuesday. The department has witnessed a “busy y…
The American Farm Bureau Federation celebrates (AFBF) its 100th anniversary this year. Beginning in 1919, the organization has made a major impact on a nation, regional and local level. Here in the Grand Rapids area, the Arrowhead Regional Farm Bureau (ARFB) has continued to play an importan…
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CHERRY — As eighth graders in 2015, Austin Michels and Justin Caple sat helplessly in a room as the news broke that the Cherry High School football program was being disbanded.
HIBBING — Heading into Bud Light Season Championship Night at Hibbing Raceway, multiple classes had yet to determine a Track Champion on the year which added some extra intrigue to the evening’s program. The WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds, WISSOTA Pure Stocks, and WISSOTA Super Stocks were all up…
After reading the above title, even though some of you are probably thinking of The New Kids On The Block (NKOTB), the late 1980s through ‘90s “boy band” that has of late seen a popularity resurgence, by replacing “block” with “dock,” this column’s purpose is more in the woods and water real…
For decades upon decades there have been many lures that have come and gone. Thousands as a matter of fact, and some darn good ones, came off the shelves and disappeared into tackle boxes all over the country. Some of the different styles of artificial baits continue to transform from their …
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Timothy “Tim” Washburn Sr was born in Grand Rapids on Dec. 23,…
Henry “Hank” D. Hesse, age 83, of Jacobson, MN passed away Sun…
Joseph Krofel Jr., age 67, of Cohasset, MN passed away Monday,…
Herbert L. Washburn, age 76, of Grand Rapids, MN died unexpect…
Duane Ruben Plagemann, 84, of Grand Rapids, MN passed away pea…
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U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-Minn.) released the following statement Aug. 19 after Planned Parenthood announced its forced exit from the Title X federal family planning program due to the Trump Administration’s new restrictions barring health care providers from exploring all health care optio…
The search is on in earnest. What began as a sporadic, poorly funded (if at all), and shot-in-the-dark search for alien life by a few astronomers and scientists who in some cases kissed their grants good-bye because of their interest has now become a multibillion dollar enterprise by governm…
Last Sunday’s Reminisce column touched on the story about Minnesota’s current record muskellunge, caught in 1957. Fishing guide Art Lyons caught it just off the shores of High Banks Resort. It took nearly two hours to land the muskie, which officially weighed 54 pounds. And it took nearly 20…
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