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Supporters of the Staples Veterans Park carried their big flag in the Railroad Days parade on Aug. 21. (Photo by Mark Anderson)
COVID-19 is being transmitted in local areas with one outbreak in Long Prairie this past week. State numbers released August 12 showed that Long Prairie had 18 new cases during the week, with Staples and Browerville each having five new cases and Pillager four. This was the third week in a row with...
By Mark Anderson
Managing Editor
The Staples City Council approved a capital improvement plan for the next five years. At their Aug. 10 meeting, the council learned that one item on the list, $152,000 for self-contained breathing apparatus for the fire department, will be bolsteered by a $129,000...
75 Years Ago - 1946
o Aug. 15, 1946 - People of Staples and this community, who have been visiting the Staples Municipal hospital, are asked to refrain from visiting the hospital during the present polio scare. This rule has but two exceptions, and will be enforced, according to physicians of...
Daniel Boessel (center) of Bigfork, was one of the demonstrators at the Old Wadena Rendezvous last weekend, explaining how birch bark canoes were made in the late 1700s. Boessel’s great-grandfather, Bill Hafeman started the family tradition of building canoes from that era, a business now run by...
Face and arm painting artist Beth Kern (left) was busy during the Old Wadena Rendezvous Aug. 14. Getting her arm painted with a fun design is Leah Burton of Hewitt. In line waiting their turn are, from left, Caleb Burton, Hewitt; and Aveda, Raiden and Ivy Hanson of Bluegrass. (Staples World photo...
The Purple Hulls from Texas performing on the Old Wadena Rendezvous stage. (Photo by Dawn Timbs)
It appeared as if people were walking on top of the Crow Wing River at Old Wadena Park in rural Staples Aug. 14. With very little rainfall in Minnesota this summer, water levels are low in area lakes and rivers; and the numerous sandbars in the rivers has made it difficult for people to go tubing...
The Staples Railroad Days parade will begin at 5 p.m. on Saturday
The parade will start on 4th Street NE and Dower Ave. NE, near the Staples Elementary School. It will travel south along 4th Street to 3rd Ave. NE, then one block east to 5th Street NE and north again back to Dower Ave.
To enter a...
By Dawn Timbs
Staples World reporter
Motley Police Officer Cody Holtz was sworn in Aug. 9, at the regular meeting of the Motley City Council.
Mayor Al Yoder administered the oath, after which Police Chief Jason Borash pinned the new officer’s badge on to his uniform.
Chief Borash informed the...
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