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WE Fest Officials have announced that Marijuana of any kind will not be allowed for on-site consumption on the WE Fest grounds. The new Minnesota law legalizing the use of Marijuana come into effect on August 1, 2023 just two days before the Country Music Festival officially kicks off. (From Valley News Live)
HALSTAD, MN—The Halstad City Council moved one step closer to solving the city’s wild turkey problem. As R&J News has previously reported, people have been feeding wild turkeys in Halstad…which has led to more turkeys coming into the area and some turkeys have damaged homes. Halstad Mayor Darin Johnson says at Monday’s regular meeting, the…
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FERTILE, MN—In Fertile, you have to be 16 years old with a valid driver’s license to drive an ATV, UTV or golf cart on a city street. At Monday night’s Fertile City Council meeting, City Administrator Lisa Liden says the City wants to tweak that ordinance a bit. Liden says there will be a public…
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The Highway 34 resurfacing project between County Road 29 and County Road 26/47 has been scheduled to begin on Thursday, July 3, 2023 according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation. The project has been postponed twice already with past dates for the project being scheduled on June 5, and June 15. The detour will be…
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Solem Lutheran Church in Hawley is celebrating 150 years of history with a number of activities during the weekend of the 23-25. Solem Church Representative Theresa Olson gives us a brief history of the church. Solem Lutheran Church will also be hosting activities that people are invited to participate in for the celebration. Olson also…
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District 2 State Senator Steve Green has scheduled three town hall meetings for June. The Republican legislator will host one in Bemidji on June 20th at the Beltrami County Fairgrounds beginning at 3:30 in the afternoon. The next day on June 21, the Senator will be in Walker at the Walker Area Community Center pavilion…
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HILLSBORO, ND—One of the biggest events on this weekend’s Hillsboro Days schedule is the Draft Horse Pull, which will be Saturday afternoon at Woodland City Park. Paul Geray, the draft horse pull’s organizer, tells us what a horse pull is. Geray says draft horse pulls are featured in events like the Calgary Stampede and are…
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Mahnomen County’s annual Breakfast on the Farm will take place this Saturday, June 17 at the Steinmetz Robotic Dairy Farm northeast of Mahnomen. Jimmy Steinmetz, who owns the farm, says they’ll be serving pancakes, ham, strawberries and ice cream. And he’ll have plenty of people to prepare the food. Steinmetz says they fed between 900…
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The Twin Valley City Council met on Monday, June 12 to discuss a multitude of topics in their monthly council meeting. The major topic that was discussed in this meeting was the next step in the water, and sewage project that will be happening in Twin Valley and around the wastewater storage ponds also known…
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A former Ada-Borup graduate won a OCB Natural Spartan bodybuilding competition on Saturday, June 10 this past weekend. Ivy Johnson, a 2019 graduate from Ada gives us her background. Johnson also shared the kind of training one has to go through in order to compete in a bodybuilding competition like the one she competed in.…
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