Local Radio
The McIntosh Harvest Festival is here and it’s shaping up to be on of the most exciting and fun family events of the year across the county. Kathy Downing and Andrea Stordahl from the festival committee joined R&J Broadcasting to discuss the event happening tomorrow, Saturday September 19th from 9am-3pm in McIntosh. Downing discusses a…
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The Firefly Center for Art and Wellbeing has been busy already this year putting together a gaggle of events for people in the Fosston area and their schedule doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime in the Fall. Heide Danos, the Center Director, spoke to R&J News about some of the great fall activities the…
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Bison fans, KKCQ in Fosston will be running a North Dakota State Football Trivia competition starting today at 7:35am and 9:05am and Monday-Thursday of next week at the same times each day. During each of the time slots for those 5 dates, a Bison football trivia question will be asked on-air and the first caller…
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The East Polk Heritage Center just wrapped up with it’s Heritage Days event over the weekend celebrating 40 years of operation and 31 years of the Heritage Days, and Executive Director Bonnie Stewart and President Stephanie Anderson spoke to R&J Broadcasting to discuss what is next on the calendar for the Center with that in…
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The Fourth annual Northern Soy Marketing Crop Tour is right around the corner with the dates set for September 21st-25th and will welcome participants from southeast Asia this year with Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand among the growing international markets that will be represented at this year’s tour. Many northern soybean farmers have come to know…
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The City Council in Fosston had one of its bigger meetings in some time on Monday to go over several big budget discussions and of course make the final vote on what would go into place on the intersection of highway 2 and Johnson with the old stoplight no longer being viable. City Administrator Cassie…
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The Polk County Commissioners meetings are in full swing here in mid-September with the 1st couple meetings taking place last 2 nights and a 3rd meeting set for next Tuesday, September 22nd. Some of the items of approval included a 5% wage increase that will be helped to coming into fruition by the county’s paying…
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The Cass County Sheriff’s Office says they are actively investigating the death of a person in rural Cass Lake. The individual’s body was found in a local resident’s yard at around 8am on Sunday morning. The body was discovered in a yard in the area of John Moose Drive NW in Pike Bay Township, the…
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The Northwest Minnesota Arts Council announced yesterday that they are bringing a new exhibit to their gallery at Northland Community and Technical College in Thief River Falls. The exhibit, Self-Taught Artists, Self-Told Stories: a folk art exhibit, will run through November and will have 110 unique pieces of folk art which include Indigenous beading, acrylic…
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As October approaches, flu season is just around the corner and Essentia Health will be taking steps to help the community by bringing back their vaccine walk-in events throughout October this year at several of their clinic locations. Every year the Center for Disease Control estimates the number of children under the age of 5…
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