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CROOKSTON, MN—A homeless shelter in Crookston is holding a dinner to raise money for buying a cargo van. Tom Anderson, board chairman of Care and Share, talks about the dinner, which is called “Open Hearts, Open Doors.” Care and Share in Crookston also operates a soup kitchen and food shelf. If you’d like tickets for…
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A proposed merger between two regional health care systems has fallen through. Essentia Health and Wisconsin-based Marshfield Clinic Health System have been in talks over a possible merger for the last two years. But on Friday, both sides released a statement saying the merger wouldn’t happen. According to published reports, the two sides were reportedly…
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Top Hat Theatre in Ulen will do something they’ve never done before: serve dinner before a performance. On Saturday, January 13, the Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre will perform “Murder on the Menu.”. Before the performance, a dinner of potato dumplings, ham and corn will be served…and at intermission, there will be dessert. Judy Lewis, executive director…
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There’s going to be a town hall meeting in Bejou Saturday morning to talk about Second Amendment rights. Minnesota State Senator Steve Green of Fosston has been invited to speak at the meeting. Green tells R&J News Minnesota’s new red flag gun law will be discussed. Green went on to give his view of the…
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Now that 2024 has arrived, here’s a story we’ll be hearing about in the new year. Norman County Environmental Services Director Garry Johanson has been part of a group that’s working on an Emergency Management Readiness Funding Bill that will be discussed in St. Paul. Testimony at the Minnesota capitol is scheduled for this spring. …
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Two people were injured, one seriously, after their car struck a semi Tuesday morning on I-29 in Fargo. The North Dakota Highway Patrol says a semi was stopped on the right shoulder of Southbound I-29 with its warning lights on. At 11:15am, a 2021 Nissan Sentra driven by 23-year-old Rachel Krueger of Moorhead drove onto…
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Here’s another sign of Christmas: empty boxes that once contained presents. Norman County Environmental Services Director Garry Johanson tells R&J News’ Joe Lancello about the importance of recycling. Johanson adds there is one type of cardboard you shouldn’t recycle: used pizza delivery boxes. The grease in the box makes it unsuitable for recycling.
North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum has declared a statewide emergency for widespread utility infrastructure damage caused by the ice storm that left more than 20,000 North Dakotans without electricity. Burgum plans to ask for a presidential disaster declaration to unlock federal assistance to help pay for eligible response costs and infrastructure repairs, including hundreds of…
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Last week, R&J News told you the Concordia-Moorhead women’s hockey team was near the site of a mass shooting in Prague, Czech Republic where 15 people were killed–including the gunman–and 25 wounded in the country’s worst ever mass shooting. Jerica Friese, a senior co-captain of the Cobbers, spoke to R&J News about that day. Friese…
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Employees at Benedictine Living Community in Ada will be seeing something extra in their paychecks. Benedictine Executive Director Morgan Hviding tells R&J News a wage increase will be across the board for all employees. Hviding goes on to say this wage increase will be paid for through a state award for two years. After that,…
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