“Your ancestors prayed for you to live a life they couldn’t, long before your feet touched this earth.” This is the message Rachel Evangelisto, Miss Minnesota 2022, presented to students in grades 6-12 at Morris Area High School during a program on November 16. Evangelisto is the first Indigenous woman to receive the title of …
The Morris Area School Board learned at the November meeting that one of the teachers at the school was named a Minnesota Educator of the Year for 2022. Jenny Maras is one of four teachers from Minnesota to receive the Minnesota Rural Education Association (MREA) honors. Maras was presented with the award at an MREA …
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The Hancock City Council approved allowing Widseth to do the design plan for a new Fire Hall and improvements to the current Community Center and Fire Hall. The design plan will cost $62,900 and means that the council is committed to moving forward with the project. It was the consensus of the council members at …
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In a meeting that focused mainly on preparing for winter and also preparing for next year’s budget, the Stevens County Commissioners had a lot to talk about on November 15. Emergency Manager Dona Greiner spoke via zoom about Winter Weather Awareness Week saying that this information is also shared on the County facebook page. She …
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After the winter we had in this area last year, when someone brings up Storm Alerts, you tend to think about snow emergencies, towing and fines. Last year there were two Snow Emergency declarations issued in Morris and each time several vehicles were ticketed and towed. That led to numerous phone calls to the city …
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Anytime Sim Sports is a business that is appropriately named. They offer many types ofsimulated sports at any time of the day or year. This new Morris business opened onOctober 12, 2022 in one of the large storage units behind Thrifty Drug. The owner isChase Engebretson who graduated from Morris Area High School in 2020. …
Republican Torrey Westrom easily won election to the new District 12 state Senate seat defeating Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) candidate Kari Dorry.Westrom, of Alexandria, defeated the Ortonville Democrat 26,179 to 10,813.We The People Party candidate Ashley Klingbeil, who had challenged Westrom’s residency in the district, received 1,485 votes, or 3.86%.The new Senate District 12 includes all of …
Republican Paul Anderson of Starbuck won election to the new District 12A state House seat with 71.1% of the vote. He defeated Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) candidate Eddie Barrett of Ortonville who got 5,388 votes, or 28.8%. Anderson, 70, a farmer who lives near Starbuck, has a physical education degree from the University of Minnesota, Morris. He …
People who love history are not living in the past but learning from the past. They enjoy hearing old stories, seeing antique items and exploring ancestry. They just can’t get enough of what they see and hear from our history. The best place to learn about history is at a local museum and the person …
Standing in a queue, or line, for 29 hours to spend 30 seconds beside the casket of Queen Elizabeth was so amazing and ‘totally worth it” for Andrew Israels-Swenson of Morris. He was the eighteenth person in that queue and sat, fortunately on a bench through rain and other weather conditions, for all of that …
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