Articles from the January 3, 2019 edition


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  • Next Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner is appointed

    Jan 3, 2019

    Posted at 15:04 on Thursday, January 3. Today, Minnesota Gov.-elect Tim Walz announced his selection of Thom Petersen to serve in his cabinet as Commissioner of Agriculture. Minnesota Farmers Union (MFU), a grassroots family farm advocacy organization, applauds the appointment of Petersen, who has served as the MFU Government Relations Director since 2002 and lives on a farm in Pine City with his wife and their children. "Thom has been a strong advocate for Minnesota's family farmers at the...

  • Correction: school board meeting

    Jan 3, 2019

    *Correction: the newspaper has incorrectly posted that a general tour of the elementary campus by the school board will be held on January 7...it will in fact be on Monday, January 28 at 7 p.m. at the elementary school. The regular monthly school board meeting will follow at 7:30 p.m. at the elementary school library. The mix-up was due to an error on the newspaper's side of things....

  • A bucket of ice for New Year's

    Jan 3, 2019

    Not good! That's all there was to say while describing rural travel since last Friday's (December 28) snow storm. Conditions worsened with freezing rain fall on Sunday night (December 30), then dipping temperatures on Monday and negative numbers for high temperatures on New Year's Day. In Brooten, the high hovered around one below zero on Tuesday afternoon, January 1....

  • (VIDEO) Home dance comp

    Jan 3, 2019

    Shown below is video from the home dance comp on December 20....