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Amy McBeth of the BNSF (Burlington Northern Santa Fe) Railway Foundation hands a $25,000 check to Wally Thompson of the Staples Historical Society. With this donation, the Historical Society increases their seed fund to start the next phase of the Staples Depot project, the museum. The donation...
The first county board meeting of the year is always a busy one. New board officers must be elected, elected officials’ salaries must be set, new committee assignments made. Most of these requirements were completed on Jan. 5 by the Wadena County Board.
Commissioner Jim Hofer of Staples was elected...
Lakes Area Habitat For Humanity (LAHFH) has started work on their first renovation project in Staples. James and Sheena Ziegler will be moving into the home, at 324 3rd St NE, with their three children, twins Landon and Lucas, age three, and Hayden, five.
The Zieglers currently live in Brainerd but...
The Motley Area Food Shelf (MAFS) welcomed Sherry (Miller) Frisk as its new director last fall. It’s a position previously held by Sharon Stone.
Although she inherited a new title, Frisk’s face is a familiar one to visitors of the food shelf.
“I started volunteering here in March of 2013,” Frisk...
The Kentucky family of five who drowned in Illinois Dec. 26 had connections to the Staples area.
Robbyn Owen, 13, and Chad Owen, 10, were the children of Robert Owen, Wadena, and the grandchildren of William and Marsha Owen, Staples.
The children were traveling with their mother, Erin Schutt, 36,...
Ten-year-old Cole Carlson (left) and his sister Kaitlyn, five, of rural Motley, enjoyed skating at the ice rink in Motley Jan. 3. With temperatures hovering at 30 degrees, it was a perfect day for winter outdoor sports. “We’re so glad to learn about this,” their mother, Tammi Carlson, said of the...
Construction to renovate the Staples Depot could begin by Jan. 18, according to the plans from Alliance Building Corporation. On Jan. 5, the contractors and subcontractors met to go over a building schedule. Pictured from left, Kelvin Howieson, MnDOT District 3 State Aid Engineer, Loren Fellbaum,...
Nicole Rassmussen and Travis Stokke’s son Reid was the first baby born at Lakewood Health System in 2016. Reid was born at 7:29 a.m. on Jan. 4, weighing six pounds, eleven ounces and was 20 inches long. He will join big sister Quinn and big brother Easton at the family’s home in Brainerd.
Pictured...
Thriving Communities Initiative to begin tonight
LEAP and the Economic Development Authority (EDA) are sponsoring the start of the Initiative Foundation’s Thriving Communities project this year in Staples. Information sessions will be held at city hall on Thursday Jan.7 and Jan. 14 at 5:30 p.m....
For finding a way to get healthy food to the people who need it most, Lakewood Health System (LHS) Staples is one of the recipients of the 2015 Bush Prize for Community Innovation, which awarded them $500,000 to continue their Choose Health program and expand it to another level.
Lakewood is...
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