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Jadyn Vogel spells her first word at the Lakes Bee Regional Spelling Bee, correctly spelling fresco in the first round, but missing on homogeneous.
Bryson Dumpprope and Brianna Ruikka use their bodies to fuel up their cars built during the Tech Mobile unit on transportation at Staples-Motley Elementary School.
Hydroponic tower gardens are growing in Sandy Opheim’s 2nd grade classroom at Staples-Motley Elementary School, part of the Tech Mobile program. Pictured, Hailee Cox, Zander Plattner and Ayden Hovland pick pieces of lettuce from the tower. Other plants growing in the gardens includes cherry...
Staples Food Shelf Director Fran Mertens, front, stands with some of the volunteers who helped unload the Second Harvest food truck on March 2. Mertens said they still need donations for the March fund drive, when money donations are counted to increase future funding. Pictured with Mertens, from...
The Cass County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a March 12 report of a missing male juvenile runaway from the rural Motley area.
The missing juvenile is identified as Dylan Joseph Vorbeck, age 15. Vorbeck left his home wearing a two-tone blue jacket and red shoes. He is described as 5 ft. 5...
As Colton Rau walks past a thicket of bushes, a rabbit is stirred up and starts running. Out of the trees above him, his red-tailed hawk comes streaking down and clamps down on the rabbit.
“It’s the most exhilarating thing ever,” said Rau, who recently finished his first year as an apprentice...
Spring truck weight restrictions in the central frost zone will start Friday, March 16, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
Winter load increases have ended and spring load restrictions are already in place in the south, southeast and metro frost zones.
Road restriction maps...
After a lengthy discussion at the special meeting Mar. 12 the Staples-Motley School Board unanimously approved making budget reductions of up to $600,000 for the 2018-19 school year as well as putting a $505,000 operating levy on the ballot in November.
The operating levy will be in addition to the...
More than 80 Staples-Motley athletes attended a nutrition seminar during lunch time on Feb. 14. The speaker was SMHS graduate Linsey Johnson, who is now studying dietetics at the University of North Dakota and is an intern at Lakewood Health System.
Johnson talked about the importance of...
The “Swing into Spring” dinner show by the Staples Area Men’s Chorus Feb. 24 at Timbers Event Center featured Michael and the Whippersnappers, Midlife Crisis (above) and Gerrymanders in a singing competition. The audience of over 230 voted with their dollars and the winner was the group that raised...
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