East Grand Forks, MN - Former East Grand Forks Mayor Lynn Stauss has died. He was 77. Stauss suffered from kidney disease and had been on dialysis. Stauss was a long time teacher who spent 21 years as mayor and was instrumental in helping the city recover from the devastating 1997 flood. Funeral services for Stauss will be held Friday at Hope Church, at 1601 17th Ave S, Grand
In the weeks after those fateful days in April 1997, when Grand Forks was in ruins, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., held an important meeting in his Washington, D.C., office.