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by Trinity Gruenberg trinity@inhnews.com The Verndale City Council held their regular meeting on Monday, March 9. Final Payment Approved For Sidewalk Project The recommended final payout to Ideal Construction is $48,102.19, representing the remaining amount due under the project, after negotiations with Moore Engineering. Council Member Jim Runyan repeatedly questioned whether the city should instead receive a total of $52,000 from Moore (combining an earlier discussed $30

A man who died in a house fire early Monday morning in Otter Tail County has been identified. According to the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office, the fire was reported before 4 a.m., March 9, along County Highway 75, northwest of Wadena. Multiple emergency crews responded to the scene, including firefighters from the Bluffton, Wadena, Sebeka and New York Mills fire departments, along with Astera Ambulance... Subscribe to get the rest of the story...

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The Wadena County Sheriff’s Office asked for the public’s help on Friday in locating a missing man from the Staples area. Russell Nanik, 87, was reported missing by family members on the evening of March 6. He was last seen leaving his residence north of Staples around 10 a.m. on Friday. He was driving a red 2002 Chevy Silverado with Minnesota license plate KAK 229 and was described as wearing a green plaid shirt and blue jeans... Subscribe to get the rest of the story...

by Trinity Gruenberg trinity@inhnews.com The Wadena County Commissioners held their regular meeting on March 3. Opioid Settlement Dollars to Fund Public Safety Cabinet at City Park A new public access safety cabinet will house an automated external defibrillator (AED) and naloxone (Narcan) at the city’s main park by the Depot. The $10,700 request came from the county’s Opioid Settlement Advisory Committee on behalf of Advocates for Health, a Sartell‑based nonprofit that ins

This prompt is a really good one and is one of my favorites from the past month that I have used. Now, this one does actually require that you have used your AI tool for some time so that it can answer the questions being asked. Here is the prompt and I will include what my Buddy (my name for my ChaptGPT tool) came up with. This is the exact prompt to use: ROLE: You are an expert psychologist with a keen eye for spotting human patterns. OBJECTIVE: Based on everything you

To the Editor: The longer I have been on the county board, the more I believe there is, at the very least, a need to update our 1970 zoning laws, which have changed very little since then. It’s about a lot more than just increasing our tax capacity. Here are some other reasons why this is important: 1. Increased tax capacity increases our ability to keep our tax rates down, to deal with ever increasing mandates coming out of St. Paul. We currently have the eighth highest ta

News from Clarissa's Past 25 Years Ago March 21, 2001 Several parents whose daughters are members of the Eagle Valley Girls Basketball team were on hand at the March 12 school board meeting venting their frustrations with the way the girls basketball team is being handled. Board Chairman Bob Winkler explained that the board would not take action, but would listen as it is a personnel matter. Diane Considine served as spokesperson for the group. Over the next hour, criticism

News from Browerville's Past 25 Years Ago March 22, 2001 Sue Wiersgalla is secretary-treasurer of American Legion Post 293, and loves it. The American Legion Post and the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) work together to open the doors of the Vets Club to Browerville’s citizens but basically its a post home for the vets. The Vets Club is proud to sponsor the “fish fry” on Friday nights during Lent. This project is very successful and raises money for the year for various chari