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The Minnesota Department of Transportation is observing National Work Zone Awareness Week April 9-13 to encourage safe driving through highway work zones.
The week is an annual spring campaign to coincide with the start of road construction season. MnDOT officially kicked off the construction...
Staples Police direct traffic on Hwy. 10 near the intersection of 14th St.NE, after an accident on April 6. A vehicle traveling on Hwy. 10 collided with a vehicle trying to cross the highway. No injuries were reported in the accident. (Staples World photo by Mark Anderson)
April 6 west of Motley left two people injured. Christopher Brotherton, 46, of Staples, was driving a Subaru Impreza along with a passenger Valerie Elifrits, 52, of Staples. They turned onto Hwy 10 from 321st Ave. to go towards Motley, when their vehicle was rear-ended by a Dodge van driven by...
Our community’s next generation of innovative thinkers will be on display next month as students from the Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities, or CEO, program showcase their products and services at the 2018 Central MN CEO annual trade show.
The show will be held the afternoon of Wednesday, May...
For 19-year-old Phillip LaVallee, running countless miles over Minnesota roads helped make him one of the state’s top high school distance runners and a talented college athlete. The miles, the training and his life came to an abrupt end as he was running along a Wright County road in August 2013....
peech Team won the second place trophy at the 23A Sub-Section tournament held April 7 in Menahga.
“If we would have had one or two more speakers, we could have made up the seven point difference between the winners and our team,” said coach Heather Sams. Pequot Lake’s team won the tournament with...
The Minnesota Department of Health recently re-designated Lakewood Health System, Staples, as a level 3 trauma hospital. Lakewood Health System and staff voluntarily participated in the intense re-designation process to stay part of Minnesota’s statewide trauma system. The process included an...
Optometrist Stephanie Parrish joined Seth Dokken at the Staples Eye Clinic, on April 4. Parrish plans to work in Staples one day a week for the next two months, increase to two days a week during the summer and will work four days a week after the new Staples Eye Clinic/Lakeland Dental building is...
A place to call home...
While many of us don’t currently think about this, for some, having a place to call home is a real problem.
A group of Todd County citizens have been working with the Todd County Housing and Redevelopment Authority, along with the University of Minnesota Morris, the Center...
Dr. Thaddeus McCamant, specialty crops educator at Central Lakes College, was the lead author for a book for the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA). The book is titled “Perennial Fruit: New, Unusual, and Unique Crops for Northern Climates.” Contributing author was Sadie...
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