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FERTILE, MN—A man from Mentor was taken to the hospital after his motorcycle collided with an Amish buggy Friday night near Fertile. The Minnesota State Patrol says the crash happened around 5:20 Friday night on Highway 32 at 450th Street. 52-year-old Mark Johnson of Mentor was northbound on Highway 32, with a horse and buggy…
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HILLSBORO, ND—The Hillsboro Vets Club is hosting a fundraiser Saturday night for the Veterans Honor Flight of North Dakota and Minnesota. Vets Club manager Terry Wahl says this fundraiser has become an annual event. Wahl says there will also be a live auction starting at 6:30pm. Wahl tells us why the Veterans Honor Flight has…
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Essentia Health announced Thursday that all the steps of diabetes testing will take place at its Fosston facility. Diabetes testing, also known as A1C testing, has been available in Fosston. But blood samples collected locally were then sent to an off-site laboratory, so it took longer to get test results. Now that analysis can take…
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FOSSTON, MN—The Fosston Area Sportsman’s Club is going to help get young people interested in fishing. Kim Rue with the Sportsman’s Club says her group hit the jackpot when applying for a state grant. Rue says an event last year involving sixth grade students in Fosston is a key part of this story. 32 of…
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HAWLEY, MN—The 65th annual Hawley Rodeo gets under way this weekend. Bull riders and the bulls, bronco busters and horses will be getting ready to compete Friday and Saturday nights at the Hawley Rodeo Grounds. Rodeo co-chair Jody Jackson says everything will be different each night. Jackson says there are plenty of activities in Hawley…
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ST. PAUL, MN—There’s a new scam making the rounds. It’s a text message supposedly coming from the Minnesota Department of Motor Vehicles…claiming that you have an outstanding traffic ticket and providing a link where you can send your payment. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety–that’s the genuine agency’s name–doesn’t use text messaging to get payment…
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The North Dakota Highway Patrol has identified the man from Gardner who died in a motorcycle accident over the weekend near Killdeer. 71-year-old Gene Schepp died last Saturday when he failed to make a curve on Highway 22 north of Killdeer and overturned. Schepp died from his injuries.
AUDUBON, MN—There’s going to be a birthday party this Saturday at the Cormorant Lakes Sportsman’s Club in Audubon. Tammy Odegaard, one of the Sportsman’s Club’s directors, has details. Odegaard says there will also be door prizes, as well as meat raffles. And what kind of a birthday party would it be without games, cake and…
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A motion hearing will be held Thursday morning in the lawsuit between former Fair Meadow Nursing Home administrator Angie Leiting and the City of Fertile, Fair Meadow and former Fertile Mayor Dan Wilkens. Both sides have asked the Polk County Court for summary judgments in the case. Fertile is asking that the case be dismissed;…
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MAHNOMEN, MN—Mahnomen City Administrator Taylor Guenther is on a business trip. She tells R&J News where she’s going and why. Guenther and the Mahnomen City Council have been looking for ways to improve the look of Mahnomen’s Main Street.