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Dawn Chisholm (Farm Safety) Brandon Weber (Valley United Co-op) Chuck Ruebke (Area Farmer) Cody Baker (Southern Minnesota Beet Cooperative) Neil Rockstad (ASGA President) Dave Roesch (Ada Area Farmer) Adam Sip (Bayer Crop Science) David Thompson (World Assosciation of Beet and Cane Growers President) Dr. Ashok Chanda (University of Minnesota Extension) Gary Jacobson (Jacobson Red Angus)
There was a fire at the Clearbrook swimming pool Wednesday night. Clearbrook-Gonvick Police Chief Ryan Solee has details. There’s no word on injuries. Solee says the fire was one of those things. Chief Solee was a guest on Thursday’s Food For Thought program on KKCQ.
R&J News has been sharing ways for you to protect your home from break ins with help from the Twin Valley Police Department. Twin Valley Police Chief Jason Douville is shifting today’s focus from home break in prevention to vehicle break in prevention. One common belief some people share is that locking your door actually…
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A new business opening its doors in Ada July. The business K9’s Grooming will be filling a high in demand service for the residents of Norman County. K9’s Grooming owner Amanda Bachleitner tells us what made her bring her business to Ada and how she got started in the dog grooming business. Bachleitner told us…
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Progress continues to move along in the Dekko Community Center renovation project. Dekko Manager Brianna Eggen highlights some work that has been completed and some that will get started soon. Eggen says work continues to be done in the pool room as well, but they have ran into some complications when it comes to the…
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This past Sunday nearly 200 people gathered from across the country for the fourth annual Lefse and Lemonade celebration at the Historic Grue Church in rural buxton. Event organizer, Bobbi Hepper Olson, says the turnout was a pleasant surprise. In addition to a record number of attendees, there was also a monetary record of over…
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The World Association of Cane and Beet Growers (WACBG) hosted their annual summer conference last week. WACBG President David Thompson says things went well, and tells us some highlights from the conference. Work is not over for Thompson and the WACBG as they do have more meetings planned for later this year and next year…
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FOSSTON, MN—The Fosston School Board held its June meeting last week. Superintendent Todd Selk says the Board approved the district’s budget for the upcoming school year. Selk also thanked donors to the Fosston School District for making several events possible during the last school year. Selk also reminds Fosston residents of the school’s summer hours. …
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Minnesota 7th District Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach spoke to R&J News Wednesday about the progress of the Farm Bill in Congress. Fischbach says a part of that Farm Bill is legislation she is sponsoring that will help rural America. We’ll have the final part of our interview with Representative Fischbach on Friday.
Wednesday, June 26th marked the start of picking season at a certain strawberry farm as we had the opportunity to pay a visit to Sunne U-Pick Strawberries on their opening day. We got to talk to Joel Sunne who has been running the farm for a while now. So how did the business start? And…
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