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By Mark Anderson
Managing Editor
The Staples City Council reviewed an electric rate study at their Aug. 27 meeting. Evan Leebens of Missouri River Energy presented the study. Staples is a member of MRE and gets most of the city’s electricty from the company.
Leebens said a 2015 study recommended...
The Central Lakes College Diesel Technology program is now accredited by the AED (Associated Equipment Distributors) Foundation. A tour of the program, located at the CLC Staples campus, took place Aug. 21 and was followed by a ceremony honoring the AEDF accreditation of the diesel program....
By Mark Anderson
Managing Editor
The Staples-Motley School Board is looking at developing a new strategic plan to help with future building decisions and to help the school establish an identity. The process to reach these goals will require public input that could be guided by a consultant.
The...
By Mark Anderson
Managing Editor
The Staples City Council decided to continue to enforce their nuisance ordinance after a citizen appealed a notice requiring him to clean up lumber in his driveway.
At the Aug. 13 council meeting, David Carey said he uses the lumber for business projects, he is...
By Mark Anderson
Managing Editor
The Staples-Motley School Board approved the school handbook for 2019-20, which included changed eligibility standards for activities and dropping the valedictorian and salutatorian designations after 2021.
Before the vote, citizen Bruce Drone read his objections...
Keith Olander, Dean of Agricultural Programs at Central Lakes College and Director of AgCentric, hands the microphone to Paul Gazelka, right, at the CLC Field Day on Aug. 23. Gazelka, the Senate Majority Leader, gave an update on the most recent session and talked about the agriculture issues the...
Ray Boessel, Jr. , left, his passenger Midge Johnson of Aitkin and his son, Dan Boessel, led a group of paddlers who finished a short stretch of the Crow Wing River as part of Old Waden Rendezvous. Ray Boessel built and finished this birch bark canoe just days before participating in the Old Wadena...
By Mark Anderson
Managing Editor
The Staples-Motley School Board discussed renegotiating their contract with the Staples Community Center. At a school board work session on Aug. 5, the board reviewed a contract offered by the City of Staples that would charge $80,387 for 2019-20 and a 1.5 percent...
By Mark Anderson
Managing Editor
At the July 23, Staples City Council meeting, Public Works Director Doug Bendorf said the city is planning on going to automated meters for water and light, by the year 2021. With the change, the city will be able to implement different rates for peak hours and...
by Tom Crawford
Ray Boessel, Jr., knows just how long it will take him to produce an authentic birch bark canoe.
“It takes about 80 hours for me to put one of these together,” he told a few onlookers at the Old Wadena Rendezvous in August, 2018, as he was stripping pieces of birch into the ribs...
