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Tracking a nice day tomorrow
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (12+ words) echopress.com 🏥 👮🏽 👩🚒 HEROES AMONG US — NOMINATE ONE TODAY! 👩🚒 👮🏽 🏥...
Letter: Bring together your neighbors during National Welcoming Week
3+ day, 9+ 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…...
Letter: Let us be welcoming to students
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (161+ words) Alexandria Echo Press 🏥 👮🏽 👩🚒 HEROES AMONG US — NOMINATE ONE TODAY! 👩🚒 👮🏽 🏥 It is the start of a new school year and our technical and community college (ATCC) is welcoming an influx of new students, many from other states and foreign countries. As…...
An Echo Press Editorial: Minnesotans keep their budgets tight
4+ day, 7+ 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…...
Letter: Organics have been marked safe
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (111+ words) 🏥 👮🏽 👩🚒 HEROES AMONG US — NOMINATE ONE TODAY! 👩🚒 👮🏽 🏥 Organics have been marked safe. Your voices were heard. Organics recycling is a critical part of our region’s sustainable waste management system, and we are committed to providing this service in both Pope and…...
Changing trees can be signs of what's to come for winter
6+ day, 9+ 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…...
Homework for parents: Osakis superintendent says everyone should complete this form
6+ day, 13+ hour ago (451+ words) 🏥 👮🏽 👩🚒 HEROES AMONG US — NOMINATE ONE TODAY! 👩🚒 👮🏽 🏥 OSAKIS — As parents wade through start-of-the-year forms and permission slips, there’s one piece of paperwork Osakis superintendent of schools Louisa Glenetske wants everyone to move to the top of the pile. It’s called the…...
Low water levels create challenges for boat launching, retrieval
1+ week, 1+ day ago (220+ words) 🏥 👮🏽 👩🚒 HEROES AMONG US — NOMINATE ONE TODAY! 👩🚒 👮🏽 🏥 ALEXANDRIA — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources advises boaters to take extra care at public water access sites throughout Minnesota, where ongoing drought conditions continue to cause low water levels. Nearly all of the…...
What color will Big Ole's hair and beard be?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (267+ words) 🏥 👮🏽 👩🚒 HEROES AMONG US — NOMINATE ONE TODAY! 👩🚒 👮🏽 🏥 ALEXANDRIA — Time is ticking if you plan on voting for what color hair and beard Big Ole will have when he is repainted. The 28-foot, 4-ton statue that stands in Big Ole Central Park…...
Commerce offers incentives to help expand solar energy storage
1+ week, 6+ day ago (391+ words) 🏥 👮🏽 👩🚒 HEROES AMONG US — NOMINATE ONE TODAY! 👩🚒 👮🏽 🏥 ST. PAUL — Minnesotans looking to get more from their solar energy systems may be eligible for thousands of dollars in state incentives to add battery storage. The Minnesota Department of Commerce has just over…...