MOORHEAD, Minn.–The City of Moorhead is encouraging fourth, fifth and sixth graders to enter the 2020 Mayor for a Day essay contest. Three winners will be chosen from all across Minnesota. The winners will be awarded $100 and will have their essays published in the League’s Minnesota Cities Magazine. The essay question is, “Cities provide a variety of services and programs…
MOORHEAD, Minn.–The Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber has named Shannon Full as its new president and CEO. Full will begin her new role in December 2020. According to the Chamber, Full has over 20 years of Chamber experience from four states. She is currently the president and CEO of TwinWest Chamber of Commerce in Plymouth, Minnesota. Sandi Piatz, chair of…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — When asked what message he wants to send to Minnesotans, President Donald Trump simply told South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to send his love. She recalls, “I talked to him just a few days ago and I said, ‘Mr. President, I’m going to be traveling through Minnesota on a bus tour. I’m going to be talking to…
ST. PAUL — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed another extension of the peacetime emergency in response to the ongoing pandemic and it survives a vote of the legislature. He has to call the legislature into special session each time so they can vote. Before the House voted to let Walz keep his emergency powers, the Senate voted 36-31 to…
LAKE PARK, Minn. — A Ulen, Minnesota man is arrested for DWI after hitting two people in the parking lot of Cenex in Lake Park around 9:30 this morning. Becker County Sheriff’s officials say 28 year old Travis Job hit a 72-year-old man and 59-year-old female and fled. His vehicle was found a short time later in a swampy area…
MENAHGA, Minn. — It’s a day not many get to see in their lifetimes. “I turned 100 today,” Lorraine Madsen of Menagha, Minnesota says with a smile. She may have just turned 100, but Lorraine says she doesn’t feel a day over 75. “It feels great. It feels great!” She adds, “I feel honored and special, and all my kids and…
CASS CO., N.D. — A St. Joseph, Minnesota man is stopped and arrested for taking a vehicle from the parking lot of C & I Bar in Hunter, North Dakota. Cass County deputies spotted 30-year-old Marshall Strand heading down highway 18 north of Casselton around 2:40 this morning. They eventually got him to stop and arrested him on multiple charges…
Minnesota has 10 more COVID-19 deaths and 1,450 new positive cases. All of the deaths come from southern Minnesota in people 45 and older. Three lived in assisted living facilities, while seven lived in private residences. North Dakota records 3 more COVID-19 deaths and another 640 positive cases. The deaths include two men and a woman, all over 70 with…
BARNESVILLE, Minn. — A single vehicle crash on I-94 near Barnesville Saturday morning left one dead and injured three others. It happened around 8:15 when a truck driven by 61 year old Brian Smoker of Leesburg, Indiana went off the road and into the median striking the bridge pier head on. 59-year-old David Smoker also from Leesburg died at the…
BARNESVILLE, Minn.- The City of Barnesville is applying experimental polymer to a road after years of dust complaints. Keith Jackson has been living between 12th and 13th Street Southeast in Barnesville for almost half a decade. When he first saw the home they knew it was the family’s “dream home.” It was everything he could imagine and more, ut there…
