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Minnesota employers ramp up hiring, but some workers remain tentative Kavita Kumar, Star Tribune © Jeff Wheeler/Star Tribune/TNS A takeout customer places an order at Heathers on Chicago Avenue in south Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS — Mystic Lake Casino Hotel is trying to lure workers with signing bonuses of up to $1,000. With 350 open positions, it held a job fair last week that featured a gourmet food bar, DJ and door prizes. Popular Searches Valleyfair boosted wages for some ...

GALESBURG — Friday, April 17, Cottage Clinics held their first vaccination clinic aimed specifically at  those ages 16 and 17. It had 150 doses of the Pfizer vaccine on hand, but by the end of the clinic, much of the supply was returned to the Knox County Health Department.  Only 23 Pfizer doses were administered that Friday, Cottage Spokesperson Eileen Inness told The Register-Mail later. As vaccine eligibility has expanded, the willingness to get vaccinated has not matched that expansion....

Erin Olson, the Director of Wellness and Public Information Officer with the Knox County Health Department, went to Facebook Thursday to show off the new site. Additionally, she talked about some of the details of the upcoming “If you are a minor, you do need to have a parent or legal guardian who will be with you the entire time, to sign the legal consent. Also, to be here during your vaccine. So, that is again open to anyone 16 and up. Anyone in the State of Illinois is available to regis...

Unemployment problems impacting mother’s everyday life Some Michiganders are not receiving payments, while others had their payments stopped without warning. “Infuriating, frustrating. I don’t know if there’s enough words in the English dictionary,” said Erin Olson, mother. This is Olson’s second hold up when it comes to receiving unemployment benefits. In November, Olson told TV5 she had waited nearly eight months to receive benefits. “I didn’t have insurance on my car so I can...

Second doses prioritized in Knox County after delayed vaccine shipments GALESBURG — Following a reduction in available vaccine doses caused by last week’s severe weather across the country, first dose COVID-19 vaccine clinics are being moved onto the backburner as the county focuses on making sure people who received their first vaccine doses weeks ago can receive their second. According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, 12,534 doses of COVID vaccines have been administered in K...

Galesburg Register-Mail GALESBURG — COVID-19 vaccinations started Thursday morning in Galesburg for Knox County residents 65 and over. One of three county vaccination sites had run out of vaccine by 11 a.m. and another by noon.  In a news release from the Knox County Unified Command, public information officer Erin Olson announced that the Knox County Farm Bureau COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic, which was run by the Unified Command, had run out of its supply of vaccines for the day.  "We are a...

Vaccination announcement planned Friday morning at Galesburg City Hall GALESBURG — A briefing at 10 a.m. Friday in the Galesburg City Council chambers will give details on COVID-19 vaccination in Knox County as vaccination efforts statewide move into their next phase.  In a release on the conference from Knox County Emergency Operations Center and Knox County Health Department Public Information Officer Erin Olson, Olson said the briefing will be “the only place where officials authorized...

Top Regional News: Police break up 200-person fight at Northwoods Mall Illinois News Desk Police use pepper balls to break up 200-person fight at Northwoods Mall PEORIA — A fight at Northwoods Mall the day after Christmas escalated to involve 200 juveniles and adults across both shopping levels and outside in the parking lot, causing Peoria police to deploy pepper balls and close down the mall. "Groups of kids got unruly and started to fight," Peoria Police spokesman Amy Dotson said Sunday. "...