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St. Paul, MN: Holiday greenery and Christmas trees bring joy throughout the season, but they can also hide dangerous hitchhikers. Diseases and invasive species can make their way into our landscapes on trees and boughs brought into Minnesota from other states. To protect our environment, the State of Minnesota is asking residents to properly dispose…
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ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec., 14, 2022 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) State Director Colleen Landkamer today announced that the Department is investing $3 million to help create new and better market opportunities and expand essential services for rural people in Minnesota. “Rural businesses, ag producers and entrepreneurs provide many of the everyday essentials we depend on,” Landkamer said. “The…
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Cuyuna Regional Medical Center Education is offering an Emergency Medical Responder course in Crosby this winter for people wanting to help save lives and contribute to the health of their community. The 17-week class begins January 23 and will be held Monday evenings from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at CRMC in Crosby. The cost of…
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The Aitkin County Board of Commissioners met with Health and Human Services on Tuesday.The Board approved contract for MN DHS Community Support Program, among other things. HHS Child Support Supervisor Julie Herbst gave a presentationon child support: Herbst also described challenges during COVID that are getting better: HHS Director Cynthia Bennett, who is set to retire…
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We talked to Brainerd Mayor Dave Badeux about the recent City Council meeting, which started with some “End of the Year-House Cleaning” preparing for next year: The Council realized street lighting standards and policy needed to be further clarified: A presentation from MNDOT about the Washington Street/210 future design plans was given, too: The new designs…
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Aitkin County Public Health’s Liz Short and Brea Hamsdorf discussed upcoming Smoking Cessation Classes coming on Tuesday in January and February at the Aitkin Public Library:
–Manuals for TVs are regarded as useless, but in five thousand years they are as valuable as the Rosetta Stone: Most of those manuals have the same text in over 20 different languages and alphabets. –Tom and Jerry are best friends. But Tom has to pretend to hate Jerry in order to protect (Jerry) so…
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City of Aitkin Megan Workman highlighted the efforts of snow removal from last week and this week, coordination in dealing with bitter cold temperatures, 2023 Levy and Budgets, and business and employment opportunities:
(Katwe Kabatoro, Uganda) — A hungry hippopotamus in Uganda swallowed a toddler whole before spitting the child out. Police say the two-year-old boy was playing in his family’s house near Uganda’s western border when the animal attacked and swallowed him head-first. A man who saw what happened threw rocks at the hippo. The startled animal…
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