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Homecoming Oct. 2 - 6
Staples-Motley Schools’ Homecoming will kick off with a pep fest on Wednesday, Sept. 29, at 8:20 a.m.
Homecoming Week will be held Monday, Oct. 2 - Friday, Oct. 6, with the Coronation set for Wednesday, Oct. 4, at 9:15 a.m.
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Wadena County Attorney, Kyra Ladd, has been reappointed to the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Ladd previously was appointed by Governor Walz in September 2022 to replace and finish the term of Washington County Attorney Peter Orput, who had resigned...
Five athletes, two teams, one coach and one community contributor will be inducted into the Staples-Motley Athletic Hall of Fame.
The ceremony will be Saturday, Sept. 16 at Centennial Auditorium. The event will begin with a social hour at 4:30 p.m. The ceremony is at 5:30 and will be streamed on...
By Dawn Timbs
Staples World reporter
As of Sept. 23, 2023, you won’t be seeing Motley Police Chief Jason Borash behind the wheel of the department’s squad car. You won’t see Officer Cody Holtz, either.
The Motley City Council accepted both of their resignations Aug. 29, at a special meeting...
Staples resident Corie Hurtig, 25, was arrested as a suspect in the theft of tools from the Staples-Motley Elementary School construction.
On Aug. 14, Staples Police received a burglary report at the Staples-Motley Elementary School building site. The construction company managing the project...
By Tom Crawford
“The average city taxpayer does not pay for my services,” Scott Sadusky, Staples building inspector, told the Staples City Council at the August 8 meeting of the council. “The only people who pay are the builders and contractors.”
Sadusky and City Administrator Jerel Nelsen...
By Mark Anderson
Managing Editor
The Staples-Motley School Board heard an update of the ongoing building project at their July 24 meeting from Damien Williams of ICS.
The structural steel on the elementary school gym was nearly complete. They were possibly going to delay concrete pouring because...
By Mark Anderson
Managing Editor
Staples City Administrator Jerel Nelsen explained the city’s method of paying their building inspector, based on an agreement the city passed in 2015. Two community members attended the meeting to question the payment numbers reported in the Staples World the...
Staples Police, Fire Department and Amublance line up in solidarity to pay respect to Jake Wallin, 23, a Fargo Police officer who died in the line of duty when an assailant fired his gun at police who were helping at a car accident. Wallin is from St. Michael-Albertville High School and has...
The death of Vickie O’Brien, 63, a nursing teacher at Central Lakes College, has been ruled a murder. The Cass County Sheriff’s Department said her husband, Terrance O’Brien, 64, shot his wife and then turned the gun on himself.
Both victims were found on June 26 at their home in Sylvan Township,...
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