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Demolition has started on the old Norman County Highway Department. In late 2023 county staff officially moved out of the old highway department building and into a new state of the art facility after a lengthy construction project. Norman County Engineer Keith Berndt says that he and the county staff are happy to be in…
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A recent survey conducted by the CME Group/Purdue University suggests that fewer farmers expect farmland values to increase in 2024. Director of Purdue University Center for Commercial Agriculture Jim Mintert tells us more about this survey’s findings. 2023 broke some records in terms of farmland costs for the region as the North Dakota per acre…
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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced that over the next few years they will be increasing the focus on the management of “Rough Fish” species in Minnesota Rivers after a surge of interest in the fishing of these species. Red River Fish Specialist for the Minnesota DNR Nicholas Kludt explains what these “rough fish”…
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the State of Minnesota’s lawsuit against major parties in the fossil-fuel industry may proceed in state court. Without comment, the Court denied the petition of the defendants ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute, and three Koch Industries entities to review lower-court decisions that remanded the case to state court.…
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FERTILE, MN—The Fair Meadow Nursing Home took up most of the conversation at Monday night’s Fertile City Council meeting. During public comments, a resident expressed concern about how the City Council has handled operation of the city-owned Fair Meadow Nursing Home since administrator Angie Leiting resigned under fire in June. Then, Kari Swanson and Dave…
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The Twin Valley City Council met for their first city council meeting of the year Monday night. One topic of discussion was the winter activities the city offers to residents. Twin Valley Mayor Mike Bolton tells us more about these activities. Bolton says that they got an update from their engineers regarding their water and…
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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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R&J News compiled our year in review, looking back on the stories that made the News with R&J News in 2023 with a month by month breakdown.
As we move deeper into the winter months illness will continue to spread throughout the community and schools. Ada Borup West and Norman County East school nurse Tracy Johnson tells us some of the illnesses she’s seeing spread around and what she recommends people do to stop the spread of these illnesses. If you do…
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For the second straight year the Fergus Falls Veterans Home was awarded the “Best Nursing Homes” award for 2023 by the U.S. News & World Report magazine. Fergus Falls Veterans Home administrator Jonathan Stone tells us more about the Veterans Home and the services they offer to veterans. Stone told us more about the award…
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