CROOKSTON, MN—Crookston’s annual Ox Cart Days celebration is taking place this week. Festival chair Libby Boucher talks about this year’s Ox Cart Days theme: Lots to Do in ‘22. Boucher says you can get into many Ox Cart Days events by purchasing a special button. Ox Cart Days buttons are available at several Crookston merchants. …
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Crookston, MN — The Ag Innovation Campus in Crookston is finally starting to take shape. Just shy of a year after dirt work officially began, the soybean crushing facility took a big step in the construction process this week with the walls of the main crushing facility now in place. Mike Skaug, Ag Innovation Campus…
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Crookston, MN — Alluma, formerly known as the Northwestern Mental Health Center, welcomes all throughout the region to their 1st Annual Alluma Night on Thursday, May 19th at the University of Minnesota Crookston campus. Michelle Adolphsen of Alluma joined the Access Health program this weekend to talk more about the inaugural event. She says the…
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Crookston, MN — River levels are going doing and things are looking up for the city of Crookston, which saw the Red Lake River rise rapidly over this weekend and come within a foot of a record crest. The city will remain on high alert and continue monitoring the dike with help from the National…
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Crookston, MN — Progress continues to be made on the Ag Innovation Campus and crush facility in Crookston. Tom Slunecka, CEO of the Minnesota Soybean Research Promotion Council, provided an update during the Farm and Field Program last Wednesday. While they broke ground on the facility last October, actual construction didn’t begin until this past…
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Crookston, MN — Ox Cart Days in Crookston continues through this weekend with a schedule of events a mile long. Today you can participate in the Food Truck Festival, Hawaiian meal, beach bash featuring the Island Time Steel Drum Band, kids games, beer and wine tastings, Community S’mores, Miss Crookston and Miss Tootsie Pageant, beer…
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Crookston, MN — Things are going to get sticky in downtown Crookston this Friday! Ox Carts Day began this week and one of the new events is gaining national attention. The CHEDA is helping a sponsor a Community S’mores event this Friday, August 20th at 5pm where people can grab a skewer, marshmallow, graham crackers,…
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