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Feeding America Study Shows Food Insecure Families Need More To Make Ends Meet People Facing Hunger Reported Needing an Additional $45 Per Month for Food Before Covid-19 News provided by Share this article Share this article CHICAGO, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study released today by Feeding America shows that household budgets were seeing further strain despite improvements in overall food insecurity rates before the pandemic. Map the Meal Gap is the only study that provides local-l...

Of the 12,000 pigs inside the buildings, 9,000 were piglets and 3,000 were sows. Written By: Tribune News Service | 2:06 pm, May 18, 2021 × Pixabay photo WASECA, Minn. — A fire in rural Waseca left about 12,000 pigs dead and two barns destroyed late Sunday into Monday, May 17. Fire crews arrived on scene at Woodville Pork around 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Waseca Fire Chief Jason Forshee said one of the buildings was fully in flames when they arrived and the fire spread to a second building...

Downtown Owatonna Hotel Groundbreaking Set The Owatonna Area Chamber of Commerce and Tourism (OACCT) announces Thursday June 3 at 5 pm as the groundbreaking ceremony on the "transformational projects downtown," as indicated in the Tuesday Talk e-newsletter. "Its celebrating $30 million invested in the new Marriott Courtyard Hotel, restaurant, Pearl Apartments, Old Town Bagels and Streetscape project." The public is invited to attend. That groundbreaking event comes on the heels of a similar ha...

Rice County to Build New Jail and Law Enforcement Center The Rice County Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 today to construct a new Jail/LEC on a green site location. After months of discussions and some lengthy debate there was not a lot of time taken to make the decision at the meeting in Faribault. The options and their fiscal impact outlined in the County Commissioners packets were: Joint powers agreement for the buy-in and shared operations at the existing Steele County Jail.   Cost TBD (...

The meetings are June 3-4 and June 7-10 in various locations. 1:14 pm, May 11, 2021 × The North Dakota Stockmen’s Association (NDSA) will host its 2021 Spring Roundups, “Charting the Course,” June 3-4 and 7-10 in Hope, Napoleon, Stanley, Watford City, Beulah and Leonard, N.D. The Spring Roundups serve as the organization’s district meetings and will include socials, suppers, informational programs, NDSA Nominating Committee meetings and local brand inspector meetings. In each...

Arrested Woman In Steele County Had Lizards In Her Purse Once a month the Steele County Sheriffs Office puts out an online publication entitled Behind the Steele Star the online newsletter covers the month that was for the sheriffs office. This months newsletter featured one blurb that stood out, an arrested woman in Steele County, ended up bringing in two lizards into the Steele County jail. The monthly newsletter only states about the bizarre find that: During a recent intake at the jail the...

Are You Ready for a Normal Steele County Fair? The countdown to the Steele County Free Fair drops below 100 days this weekend, August 17-22 in Owatonna. Last May when the event was canceled the Countdown to the Fair clock at www.scff.org was set a staggering 455 days. Fair manager Scott Kozelka said on a recent Fair Talk broadcast, "Ive never felt better." He still watches updates from health officials closely, but says "People are ready," based on surveys hes seen of the general publics desire...

[Listen] AM Minnesota Soil Biologicals and Bio-Stimulants Special thank you to Extension Educator Claire LaCanne in Rice and Steele County for organizing todays AM Minnesota with University of Minnesota Soil Scientist Paulo Pagliari PhD. to discuss soil biologicals and bio-stimulants. I have been hearing about different biologicals and stimulants that you could add for example to your liquid fertilizer in furrow and the bacteria would fix nitrogen for your corn. I have also heard about other pr...

[Listen] AM Minnesota Soil Biologicals and Bio-Stimulants Special thank you to Extension Educator Claire LaCanne in Rice and Steele County for organizing todays AM Minnesota with University of Minnesota Soil Scientist Paulo Pagliari PhD. to discuss soil biologicals and bio-stimulants. I have been hearing about different biologicals and stimulants that you could add for example to your liquid fertilizer in furrow and the bacteria would fix nitrogen for your corn. I have also heard about other pr...

Freeborn County fair canceled, other SE Minnesota fairs still a go The Freeborn County fair was canceled, Friday, April 30, while other county fairs in Olmsted, Goodhue and others are still scheduled to take place. Written By: Post Bulletin staff report | 2:21 pm, Apr. 30, 2021 × Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay ALBERT LEA - The 2021 Freeborn County fair has been canceled due to public safety concerns and COVID-19 restrictions, the fairs Facebook page announced Fri...