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Fourth-grader Ethan Krause helps veteran Bob Sanford fly a homemade kite at the Minnesota Veterans home Thursday. Students from Morning Son Christian School spent part ... Read more
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Schools get a money boost
St. Paul — Gov. Mark Dayton signed a $15.7 billion education budget bill Wednesday that boosts funding for public schools and early childhood education over ... Read more | 6 comments
The Latest
County, city closed to observe holiday
Many area businesses and offices will be closed Monday in observance of Memorial Day. City offices and buildings that will be closed include City Hall, ... Read more
Volunteers install new theater seating
A Center for the Arts will get a facelift. One of the more notable changes will be new theater seats, which made the journey all ... Read more
Minister’s voice goes to new distances
The Rev. Bill Helland’s voice and message of faith carries around the world. This past March, after he received the encouragement of a radio station ... Read more
Ringdahl paramedic looks forward to Haiti mission during National EMS week
He’s saved people at home and now will travel to Haiti to help teach responders in the poor country to do the same. Steve McElmurry, ... Read more
VFW Ride for Healing stops in Fergus
The Department of Minnesota Veterans of Foreign Wars announces that Fergus Falls will be one of their “Rally Points” for the weeklong Ride For Healing. ... Read more
- Catholic women plan 23rd annual fund day
- Architectural history of Fergus presented in program
- Mount Pleasant Cemetery tour is May 31
- Blood mobile planned in Perham, New York Mills in mid June
- Author to sign newest book featuring fictional local sheriff
- Concerts in the Park starting lineup
- Earl Nelson carvings featured at Kaddatz through May 31
- Decidedly Delicious Dressings for the Undecided Salad Lover
- All the right moves
- Fan bus to Twins game in August benefits hospice
- Shoreline ordinances still under revision | 1 comment
Sports
3 Fergus track athletes receive all-conference
SAUK RAPIDS — The Fergus Falls track and field team saw three athletes receive Central Lakes All-Conference honors in Thursday’s conference championship meet at Sauk ... Read more
- Comets qualify four for section meet
- Fergus girls golf competes at Willmar
- Youth tennis tourney in Alexandria
Record
Traffic stop leads to 13-year-old burglary arrest
A Pelican Rapids man is in jail for an alleged burglary 13 years ago after police pulled him over for a traffic violation recently. At ... Read more
- Driver airlifted to hospital after rollover
- 21-year-old cited for DWI
- Driver hits power pole in Parkers Prairie
Obituaries
Katherine (Kati) Eriksson Sasseville, 78, of Fergus Falls
Katherine Sasseville, died Thursday, May 16, 2013, at her home with family by her side. Kati was born in Fergus Falls on Aug. 18, 1934, ... Read more
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Decidedly Delicious Dressings for the Undecided Salad Lover
I’m anxiously awaiting the return of summer salad season. Those days when the first baskets of our food share from the local CSA (community ... Read more
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Editorials
Online tax levels the field
Beginning July 1, Minnesota will require major online retailers to collect the state’s 6.875 percent sales tax, and we say it’s about time. Nobody likes ... Read more | 1 comment
Columns
Drivers who obey laws won’t get tickets
Does any driver remember the correct distance between cars when following another? I sometimes think if ... Read more
Letters to the Editor
Firefighters helping others appreciated
I would like to thank the Fergus Falls Fire Department for going to help put out the fires and also the National Guard. I would ... Read more
Hot Issues
Vernon work to begin in August
It’s no secret that the Vernon Avenue area running in front of Lake Region Healthcare is riddled with pot holes. If all goes according to ... Read more
