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Alexandria Public Schools launches referendum website
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (329+ words) 🏥 👮🏽 👩🚒 HEROES AMONG US — NOMINATE ONE TODAY! 👩🚒 👮🏽 🏥 ALEXANDRIA — The Alexandria Public School District has launched a dedicated website — CardinalCommunityPlan.org — to provide information about the district’s upcoming referendum on Tuesday, Nov. 3. The site features details about the operating levy referendum, which…...
Alexandria man in 2-vehicle collision in Pope County
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (128+ words) 🏥 👮🏽 👩🚒 HEROES AMONG US — NOMINATE ONE TODAY! 👩🚒 👮🏽 🏥 POPE COUNTY — An Alexandria man suffered non-life-threatening injuries after a two-vehicle collision the morning of Sept. 9. According to information from the Minnesota State Patrol, a GMC pickup driven by Scott Lyle Stanbra, 53, of Alexandria,…...
Letter: Bring together your neighbors during National Welcoming Week
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (303+ words) 🏥 👮🏽 👩🚒 HEROES AMONG US — NOMINATE ONE TODAY! 👩🚒 👮🏽 🏥 The internet and expanded access to technology has made our small communities part of a global landscape. Exploring the world is easy from the comfort of our living rooms. However, your next cultural experience…...
An Echo Press Editorial: Minnesotans keep their budgets tight
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (547+ words) 🏥 👮🏽 👩🚒 HEROES AMONG US — NOMINATE ONE TODAY! 👩🚒 👮🏽 🏥 Are you a penny pincher when it comes to setting your budget at home? Or do you find yourself asking: “Budget, what budget?” Maybe it’s time to get out your pen and paper and…...
Changing trees can be signs of what's to come for winter
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (279+ words) 🏥 👮🏽 👩🚒 HEROES AMONG US — NOMINATE ONE TODAY! 👩🚒 👮🏽 🏥 ALEXANDRIA — Minnesota’s landscapes are turning page by page into autumn’s story. Late August into September brings the first hints — maples blushing at the edges, sumac blazing scarlet along ditches, birches glowing yellow and prairie…...
10th annual Oletoberfest set for next weekend at Copper Trail - Alexandria Echo Press | News, weather and sports from Alexandria, Minnesota
1+ week, 2+ day ago (524+ words) 🏥 👮🏽 👩🚒 HEROES AMONG US — NOMINATE ONE TODAY! 👩🚒 👮🏽 🏥 ALEXANDRIA — This marks the 10th year of Oletoberfest at Copper Trail Brewing Co., which will run from Sept. 11-13 and will feature a weekend of live music, games, contests, historic presentations and more. Featured fundraisers will…...
Mike Frisch: Fishing with the bladed swim jig - Grand Forks Herald | Grand Forks, East Grand Forks news, weather & sports
1+ week, 2+ day ago (496+ words) 🏥 👮🏽 👩🚒 HEROES AMONG US — NOMINATE ONE TODAY! 👩🚒 👮🏽 🏥 A common question is, “What’s the best lure to throw to catch lots of fish of various species?” For me, the answer is easy. A bladed swim jig paired with a plastic trailer catches…...
From the Echo Press archives 2001: Hospital adds new surgery center in Alexandria
1+ week, 4+ day ago (657+ words) Alexandria Echo Press From the Echo Press archives 2001: Hospital adds new surgery center in Alexandria This week in history in Douglas County. “This Week” in 2001, 25 years ago: Phase I of the expansion of the Douglas County Hospital is completed, but…...
‘Echoes in the Night’ offers definitive look at Jacob Wetterling story
1+ week, 5+ day ago (727+ words) 🏥 👮🏽 👩🚒 HEROES AMONG US — NOMINATE ONE TODAY! 👩🚒 👮🏽 🏥 MONTEVIDEO, Minn. — Chris Newberry was 15 years old and growing up in Minnetonka, Minnesota, when 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted on a rural country road just an hour’s drive away on Oct. 22, 1989. “I was one…...
Jeffers homers twice as Twins trounce Tigers
1+ week, 6+ day ago (374+ words) 🏥 👮🏽 👩🚒 HEROES AMONG US — NOMINATE ONE TODAY! 👩🚒 👮🏽 🏥 Ryan Jeffers connected for two of the Twins' four home runs in Minnesota's 11-1 win against the Detroit Tigers on Monday in Minneapolis. Jeffers went 2-for-3 with four RBIs, and Taj Bradley (10-6) struck out nine…...