SHELLY, MN—Here’s an update to a story R&J News told you Sunday. Saturday night’s fire at the Shelly Grain Elevator was caused by embers from the August 8 fire re-igniting. Norman County Sheriff Ben Fall tells R&J News the Shelly Fire Department was called at 8:07 Saturday night about flames coming from the grain elevator’s…
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SHELLY, MN—There’s been another fire at the Shelly Grain Elevator. You’ll remember back on August 8, the grain elevator was destroyed after apparently being struck by lightning. The Norman County Sheriff’s Office says a second fire at the grain elevator happened Saturday and was contained by 10pm. R&J News is reaching out for more information…
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SHELLY, MN—Here’s an update to a story R&J News has been following. Firefighters remain on the scene where the Shelly Grain Elevator was destroyed by a fire early this morning. Norman County Public Information Officer Liz Brainard has the latest information. US Highway 75 has been closed through Shelly since this morning. Brainard was asked…
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SHELLY, MN—The Shelly Grain Elevator was destroyed by a fire early Friday morning. Firefighters from across the region were called to the scene at 5:16am. Crews from Shelly, Ada, Hillsboro, Twin Valley, Fertile, Fisher, Gary, Perley, Hendrum, Halstad, Moorhead, Grandin, Borup, Beltrami, Buxton, Waubun, Climax and rural East Grand Forks responded to the fire. Norman…
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SHELLY, MN—The Shelly City Council spent a great deal of time at Monday’s regular monthly meeting talking about homes that aren’t taken care of…with lawns much higher than city codes allow. Shelly Mayor Ron Cakebread talks about how big the problem is. Also at Monday’s meeting, the Shelly City Council met with a consultant from…
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SHELLY, MN—At Monday night’s Shelly City Council meeting, a newcomer to the area was approved to receive one of the city’s free lots to build a home. George Swenson, acting mayor at Monday’s council meeting, talks about the free lots program. Swenson says the lots aren’t totally free; there will be some expense for hooking…
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Flood warnings remain in effect for the listening area until further notice. This includes the Red River at Halstad, the Wild Rice River at Hendrum, the Marsh River at Shelly and Norman County. Here are the latest river reports as of around 9 this morning from the National Weather Service: The Red River at Halstad…
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HALSTAD, MN—R&J Broadcasting’s Jim Birkemeyer spoke with Halstad Utility Superintendent Lucas Spaeth on the flooding situation in Halstad. Here’s what the National Weather Servicer was reporting for flood water levels as of 9:30 am Wednesday. The Red River at Halstad was at 29.66 feet, with flood stage at 26 feet. The Red is expected to…
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R&J News reached out to Norman County Emergency Manager Garry Johanson for the latest on the flood situation in Norman County. Johanson later told us that there is water over the road on Highway 9, five miles north of Ada, between 260th Avenue and 280th Avenue. He says there are no barricades on the highway….and…
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Shelly, MN — The town of Shelly celebrated its 125th birthday over the weekend with the annual Shelly Days celebration. George Swenson of the Shelly Community Club says the event went quite well. Swenson says there were two new activities this year that became quite popular. Some familiar events at Shelly Days were also well…
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