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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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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.
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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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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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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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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Minnesota Broadcasters Association President Wendy Paulson and Director of Operations & Member Services Tim Hyde visited the KRJB Studio in Ada today. Paulson explains what brought her to Ada. The Minnesota Broadcasters Association works with over 300 Radio and TV stations across the State, and Paulson and Hyde explain what kind of work the Association…
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The Ada-Borup-West School Board held a special meeting Wednesday morning. Most of the meeting was spent discussing how many sections of Kindergarten and first grade there should be in the upcoming school year. Ada-Borup-West Superintendent Aaron Cook says increasing enrollment is the reason for this discussion. Cook tells us the School Board is going to…
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Win-E-Mac High School students will be performing “Anne of Green Gables” as a kick off to Spring. Theater Director Andrew Hanson gives a preface to the show: Director Hanson has directed many shows at the Win-E-Mac School, but this show in particular has been particularly challenging: Be sure to check out “Anne of Green Gables”…
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Progress continues to be made in the hiring of a school resource officer for the Ada Borup West School District. Ada Police Chief Steve Hager says an offer has been accepted but there’s lots of things that still need to be completed before the new officer starts. Once this is done Hager says the goal…
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