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As the Staples Economic Development Authority (SEDA) discussed construction projects at their Jan. 24 meeting, they talked about making sure local contractors and local businesses are used as much as possible.
Board member Doug Case noted that the townhomes being built by Roach Properties is not...
Although there is not an increase in the crime rate, there could be more people working on the Sentence to Serve work crew through Todd-Wadena Corrections.
At the Jan. 24 Staples City Council meeting, city attorneys Kyra Ladd and Joe Krueger gave their annual update. Both attorneys said the numbers...
A number of families attended the ‘Move, Drop (Everything) & Read’ event at the Motley Family Center Jan. 30. The fun-filled evening, sponsored by the Staples-Motley Early Childhood Coalition and Staples-Motley Early Childhood Family Education, kicked off ‘I Love to Read’ month. Parents and...
If sitting down with a good book is one of your New Year’s resolutions, now is the perfect time to make that goal a reality.
February is “I Love to Read” month and people of all ages are encouraged to take part in the literary celebration.
A number of “pro-reading” events are planned at local...
People in small towns can stop talking negatively about what things their town has lost or what it used to be like. According to Ben Winchester of the University of Minnesota Extension, the changes in rural Minnesota are almost all microcosms of globalization.
“Rural is changing, not dying,”...
The Minnesota House overwhelmingly approved the conference committee report for Senate File 1 on a vote of 108-19, recently. The bill provides a 25 percent premium reduction to Minnesotans who do not qualify for MNsure tax credits on the individual market and includes key Republican-led reforms to...
The Staples Area Women’s Chorus (SAWC) hosted the 2017 Women’s Choral Festival, ‘Her Voice, Her Song,’ on Jan. 28, at the Staples-Motley High School in Staples. The day-long event culminated with a combined concert for the public at the SMHS gymnasium. Seventeen area schools participated in the...
People interested in deer will have an opportunity to discuss goals and values that could define Minnesota’s first-ever deer management plan at public engagement meetings hosted by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in Alexandria on Thursday, Feb. 2, at Broadway Ballroom, 115 30th Ave. E....
The Minnesota Job Honor Awards is accepting nominations for its first awards event set for May 10 in the Twin Cities. The awards will celebrate “A New Kind of Hero” – Minnesotans who have overcome significant barriers to employment and the employers who hire them. Deadline for nominations is Feb....
University of Minnesota Extension will be hosting a workshop titled, “Robots vs. Parlors: Economics & Options.”
This workshop is for area dairy producers who may find themselves at a crossroads between putting in robots for automatic milking or building a parlor.
One session will be Thursday...
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