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The Northern Cass School District recently received a donation totaling $1 Million dollars with help from BankNorth. Northern Cass Superintendent Cory Steiner tells us more. Steiner says the donation will go toward the construction of a health and wellness center, which will provide many amenities to communities in the Northern Cass School District. Steiner says…
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The Norman County Fairgrounds and Raceway is currently having fiber optic internet installed. Fair Board President Don Merkens says the project could help open the door to new projects and innovations at the fair. Norman County Raceway manager Jake Bitker says the fiber optic project will be a great benefit to the race track as…
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Several students from our main listening area on the North Dakota side of the Red River are preparing for the state Class B Speech meet Saturday. At the regional tournament earlier this month in Northwood, Hillsboro’s Charlie Johnson finished in 2nd and 3rd in Poetry and Dramatic respectively, qualifying for the state tournament in both…
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GLYNDON, MN—“The City made an error.” Those words from Glyndon Mayor Tracy Tollefson at Wednesday’s Glyndon City Council meeting about removing a monument. The monument was a plaque remembering former Glyndon fire fighter Dennis Fox. Tollefson picks up the story. The plaque now is with Fox’s surviving son, Kent, and Tollefson says the family will…
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Three farms in northwest Minnesota will receive grants from the Rural Energy for America Program, or REAP. R & T Stenerson Farms in Hendrum will use a half million dollar grant to install an energy efficient grain dryer. This project is expected to save $3000 per year. Pederson Brothers Partnership in Bejou will receive almost…
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Earlier this year, former Ada High School and Ada-Borup teacher Nathan Purrington was inducted into the Minnesota FFA Hall of Fame. Red River Farm Network’s Whitney Pittman caught up with Purrington at the Minnesota State FFA Convention. Purrington talks about his career in agricultural education, which eventually took him to the University of Minnesota-Crookston. Purrington…
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CLIMAX, MN—The Climax-Shelly School had a four-legged visitor this week. Climax-Shelly Principal Lucas Soine tells us about it. You can hear the Climax-Shelly School News Thursday afternoons at 2pm on 106.5 FM KRJB.
On Ed Gackley’s Oh Canada Show on April 23rd, he had Ken Kellar from the Fort Frances Times newspaper as a guest. Ken is an alum at Fort Frances High School who has been involved with the theatre program for a while through his work with the newspaper. And he was very excited to talk…
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One of the most iconic voices in Minnesota broadcasting history has died. Al Shaver, who was the play-by-play voice of the Minnesota North Stars, died Monday. He was 96. From the North Stars’ arrival as a National Hockey League expansion team in 1967…to their departure to Dallas in 1993, Shaver was behind the microphone calling…
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