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If you like piña coladas, you may have escaped to the local watering hole for an umbrella-topped, pineapple-infused treat in a pre-pandemic society. Post-CO

ANGOLA — The Angola Plan Commission on Tuesday approved the subdivision of a property owned by Greg and Natalia Baird at 800 Butler Street into two separate lots, a decision the Bairds had requested. The Bairds went before the Commission seeking to legally divide their almost five-acre residential property just north of Angola’s Hulbert Hills Subdivision into two lots so they can build a house on the new, vacant lot. They plan to eventually sell their existing single-family home and m...

Old headline resurfaces as causionary tale: Beware of botulism DETROIT LAKES, Minn. - As another canning season approaches, it might be worth taking a moment to remember the story of Edward and Delphine Hein. The couple threw a dinner party 80 years ago at their farmstead two miles northeast of Grafton, N.D. Written By: DL News Staff | 8:39 am, Aug. 16, 2011 × This edition of the Walsh County Record from 1931 is filled with stories about the fatal dinner. Later, a 13th pe...

“Hello, Central!”  If you’ve been to Nome for the Iditarod finish, you’ve definitely heard the resounding voice of longtime resident and beloved Mayor Richard Beneville. We will miss his enthusiasm when the race returns to Nome for the 50 th anniversary running, but we know that his spirit will be there welcoming each and every team as they cross the finish line. Below are the storylines to watch, and you can access these clips via the Iditarod Insider-led press pool Dropbox here: ...

BE liquor store sales top $2M By Chuck Hunt - Editor | Feb 28, 2021 Blue Earth’s municipal liquor store had a banner year in 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, and possibly because of it. In fact Blue Earth Wine and Spirits topped the $2 million mark for sales in a single year for the first time ever. “As far as I know, that is the highest sales in a one year time,” Blue Earth Wine and Spirits manager Dave Olson says. “And I think it can be attributed to COVID. Our monthly sales went...

Confusion over insurance, contractors creates headache for customers Carmen Baker stands by last Sunday to help pass tools and materials to her boyfriend, Bob Chittick, as he works on the ceiling of her bathroom at Edgewood Forest Mobile Home Park in Cedar Rapids. Baker’s home was severely damaged in the Aug. 10 derecho. Unable to find reliable contractors, Chittick, who has a background in construction, has taken on the project himself and works on the trailer almost daily when he has time b...

Fargo teen makes court appearance on murder charge A Fargo youth accused of strangling his older sister appeared Thursday in Cass County District Court. The attorney for Sergei Isaac Carlson, 15, asked for and was granted a continuance of the preliminary hearing, which is usually the first point ... Written By: news@inforum.com | × A Fargo youth accused of strangling his older sister appeared Thursday in Cass County District Court. The attorney for Sergei Isaac Carlson, 15, asked...

CAFO Moratorium extension vote tabled by county board Crawford County IT WAS A PACKED HOUSE at the December 2019 Crawford County Board of Supervisors meeting, when the county board voted to enact a one year CAFO Moratorium. A very different scene from the December 2020 meeting where the board voted to table a vote on extending the moratorium, thus al-lowing it to end by default. There were few in-person witnesses to the board action du...

Board of Supervisors may vote on extending CAFO Moratorium Crawford County CRAWFORD COUNTY - The Crawford County Board of Supervisors has a variety of things of note on their agenda for their Tuesday, Dec. 15 meeting, which starts at 10 a.m. Perhaps most notable is the agenda item called ‘Report from LCC/action on extending CAFO moratorium.’ Although Crawford County remains in ‘Phase One,’ which means public health guidelines recommend limiting indoor...

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