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The Wilkin County Commissioners meeting opened at 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 13. Commissioners Jonathan Green and Lyle Hovland were absent. The meeting continued and the opening and consent agenda were
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The county has been hard at work: cleaning out culverts and opening up ditches, making sure the water continues to flow.
Some North Dakota counties have passed resolutions against using eminent domain for right-of-way for a carbon capture pipeline. Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions is behind a $4.5 billion project that covers five states.
Wilkin County Director of Public Health Deb Jacobs presented the county board of commissioners with an update on local COVID-19 numbers, as well as expectations for the vaccine, at the board's Tuesday, Dec. 22 meeting. Jacobs said active COVID-19 case numbers are decreasing in Wilkin County, Minnesota. Numbers are expected to drop quickly in the coming days, since many people who tested positive for coronavirus are now nearing the end of their quarantine period. The highest number of active COVID-19 cases the county had at one time was 99. Jacobs said she did not see a surge in cases followin...
Wilkin County Sheriff Rick Fiedler presented four lifesaving awards at the county commission meeting Tuesday, Dec. 15. The first two people to receive the award were Breckenridge Police Officer Alec Gjerdevig and Correctional Officer Aaron Wood. Following an arrest in August, Gjerdevig noticed a line of clothes wrapped around the inmateâs neck in the changeout room, Fiedler read. Gjerdevig picked up the inmate to loosen the tension around his neck. Gjerdevig and Wood removed the clothing from the inmateâs neck and the shelf it was looped around, Fiedler said. The inmateâs face ...