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Park Rapids City Council refers CUP request back to planning commission Council members were unconvinced about the adequacy of applicant Stephen Larsons parking plan for a proposed apartment building remodel. 7:00 am, Mar. 13, 2021 × The Park Rapids City Council had concerns about the parking arrangements planned for a proposed apartment remodel at 205 Pleasant Ave. S. (Hubbard County GIS map) The Park Rapids City Council tabled a conditional use permit (CUP) request Tues...

Print The owner of the Conception dive boat that caught fire off the Channel Islands, killing 34 below deck, has sold the two remaining boats in the fleet amid a flurry of new lawsuits filed by the victims’ families. Truth Aquatics was cited by the National Transportation Safety Board for poor oversight and a lack of a required roving night watch in the Labor Day 2019 deaths on the Conception. The buyer of the two vessels is a newly formed company, Channel Island Expeditions, described by t...

Stephen M. Larson Funeral services will be 11:00 am Saturday, February 27, 2021 at First Baptist Church in Long Prairie for Stephen Larson who died suddenly on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at his home in Alexandria. The Rev. Matt Stacey and Rev. Paul Twist will officiate and burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery in Long Prairie. Visitation will be Friday, February 26, 2021 from 4-7 pm and 1 hour prior to services Saturday at First Baptist Church in Long Prairie. Arrangements have been entru...

In perhaps another indication of how 2020 has been a year most people want to forget, Iowans spent a record amount of money on liquor this past year. The increase came during the 2020 state fiscal year, which ran from July 1, 2019, through the end of June this year — a period that includes the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in stores, bars and taverns operating under tight restrictions. Despite the pandemic, or perhaps because of it, total liquor sales in Iowa dur...

Like the heart, home apparently also is where the booze is. The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in Iowa last March and a subsequent temporary shutdown of Iowa’s bars, restaurants and hospitality industry and mitigation directives to slow the viral spread meant more Iowans were working and drinking at home — which translated into record liquor sales for fiscal 2020. Officials in the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division say in a report released Thursday that liquor sales totaled $367.3 mi...

"This dismissal of this case is in direct opposition to the will of the public and the Legislature, who instituted these laws, the plaintiffs stated. Asberry ruled in favor of the defendants motion to dismiss determining there was no "cognizable claim at issue, Larson said. In September, the nonprofit CARU Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals filed a civil complaint against the dairy, located on Cottonwood Avenue since the early 1960s, listing dozens of alleged acts of inhumane trea...

Like the heart, home apparently also is where the booze is. The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in Iowa last March and a subsequent temporary shutdown of Iowa’s bars, restaurants and hospitality industry and mitigation directives to slow the viral spread meant more Iowans were working and drinking at home — which translated into record liquor sales for fiscal 2020. Officials in the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division say in a report released Thursday that liquor sales totaled $367.3 million ...