By Mark Anderson

The Staples-Motley School Board held their organizational meeting on Jan. 4, the first meeting for new members Lisa Anderson and Jeremy Reeck.
The board elected Bryan Winkels as chair, Bruce Lund as vice chair, Mary Freeman as clerk and Brad Anderson as treasurer.
The board approved the same yearly...

Twenty-twenty-one brings the celebration of birth for Katie Bounds and Brandon Lorentz, Wadena, who welcomed their new baby girl, Charli Kaye, into the world on Jan. 1. Charli was born at 4:42 p.m., weighing 8 pounds, 6 ounces and measuring 20 1/2 inches.
The delivering providers were Dr. Lindsay...
The massive spike in COVID-19 in November and December is continuing to go down, with Central Minnesota part of the decline. Every county and city in the area is seeing fewer new cases in previous weeks. For the first time since the pandemic started, Todd County has fewer new cases than Wadena...
Staff and residents at Lakewood Health System and Lakewood Care Center, Staples, started to receive their first round of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 22. A second dose for each person receiving the vaccine will be scheduled and given 21 days after the first.
This is phase 1a of the...