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But St. Joseph was in the process of selling the school building when the bonding was awarded. Now local lawmakers are seeking a change in the law.  "I cant fault them for that," said Sen. Jeff Howe, R-Rockville, of St. Josephs building sale. "Youve got to make the decisions the best you can at the time youre making them." Bonding is never a sure thing, Howe said. And the 2020 bonding bill wasnt passed until October during the Legislatures fifth special session of the year.  Howe authored a b...

The city is born, but mistakes were made; can we regroup? Anne Buckvold The arrival of I-94 changed everything. “Do you accept the challenge of development? Or let someone else do it?” These thoughts ran through Jerry Weyren’s head as he watched the 460-acre family farm take its first beating. As the highway department surveyed the west end of the farm, Jerry surveyed that whole situation. Realizing he could continue in agriculture or accept the challenge, he decided to get things organiz...

Kevin Kluesner was selected from a pool of eight applicants and has accepted the position, according to Mayor Rick Schultz.

Search begins again NEW RICHLAND Staff Writer At the January 19 regular meeting of the NRHEG Board of Education, board members new and old once again faced the task of searching for a new Superintendent, after the delivery of Dale Carlson’s resignation effective June 30. There is a printable summary of the Superintendent Search process and a Survey community members can fill out to help with the process. Go to the NRHEG website (https://www.nrheg.mn.us) and search for  “Superinten...

Buckvold Resigns from St. Joseph City Council Anne Buckvold has resigned her seat. Buckvold submitted her resignation Thursday to the St. Joseph council and city officials. Buckvold was appointed to the council in 2018, and says “life circumstances have changed” since that time. “It’s definitely been an emotional decision and I didn’t want to have to do it,” Buckvold said. “It’s been on my mind for the last month or two. If I’m going to do it, I want to do it well, and I just ...

My Life; St. Joe Mayor Rick Schultz [PODCAST] St. Joseph Mayor Rick Schultz joined me on WJON for our "My Life" series. Rick grew up with two siblings in a small town west of Sauk Centre called Osakis. He was very involved in sports and band growing up. He says hes always loved basketball and that love led him to playing in high school and one year in college at Moorhead State as a walk-on.  He transferred to St. Cloud State after 1 year at Moorhead State where he was an education major.  He ...

FANUC America and CNC Software, developer of the Mastercam CAM software, have released a new postprocessor designed to optimize five-axis capabilities in FANUC CNC machines. The new postprocessor allows advanced machine tool operators to reduce their cycle times while boosting part accuracy, particularly for CAD/CAM-generated five-axis simultaneous contouring part processes. A growing number of manufacturing industries, such as aerospace, medical and mold and die job shops, are incorporatin...

I want to quickly speak with commander rick schultz who is in charge of everything that is out there. for anyone who is not sure how much is really going on, all of these flags, all this stuff replts what -- represents what? >> it represents various parts of the organization as well as some of the impacts that are on going that were preparing for in the field. some of it is boom thats deployed. some of it is weather impact. some of it is vessels that are deployed in responding to the incident. a...