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by Trinity Gruenberg trinity@inhnews.com A new Veterans Memorial centerpiece, featuring a large painted rock, has been installed near Clarissa City Hall, nestled between a circle of flags. The rock and Veterans Memorial will be formally recognized at a ceremony to be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 18, during Summerfest. The rock is being painted by local artist and former city clerk Sue Kent, who was given complete creative freedom for the design. “We told her, whatever

According to the Minnesota State Patrol, a crash occurred at approximately 3:13 p.m. on July 5 at the intersection of U.S. Highway 71 and Abbott Street West. Authorities reported that a 2023 Chevrolet Blazer was traveling north on Highway 71 and attempting to turn west onto Abbott Street when it collided with a northbound 2008 Chrysler Town & Country. The driver of the Chrysler, Giselle Vanise Longtine, 56, of Detroit Lakes, suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was tr

Donnie and Carolyn Middendorf built their farm from the ground up, but their roots in agriculture run deep. Donnie was raised on his family’s farm near Sauk Centre and spent his early years farming alongside his Uncle Bill. In 1995, he purchased a farm near Long Prairie, just across the road from where Carolyn was raised on a dairy farm. They married in 1997 and began milking 52 Holsteins in a tie stall barn. Since then, the operation has evolved considerably. Today, they

by Trinity Gruenberg trinity@inhnews.com The Verndale School Board held their regular meeting on July 6. Playground Construction Update School Board Member Chris Youngbauer gave an update on the new playground. The old playground equipment and mulch have been removed, leaving only the anchor points for the previous basketball hoops, which will be removed using an excavator. Clean sand has been brought in to form the subgrade, with plans to place fabric over it and then add

by Trinity Gruenberg trinity@inhnews.com Nineteen-year-old Carter White of Verndale is already making a name for himself on some of the best golf courses in the region, even though he just finished his first year of college golf. The former standout from Staples-Motley High School is now playing for North Dakota State University (NDSU) and has been golfing since he was just five years old. “I’ve been golfing since I was like five,” Carter said. His early start has paid of

Recent detections of the North Central skunk variant of the rabies virus in cattle from Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota, have prompted this notification. Rabies cases in livestock are relatively infrequent. However, they serve as indicators of active rabies virus transmission between skunk reservoirs and livestock within agricultural communities. This indicates ongoing circulation of the North Central skunk variant across the Upper Midwest. While rabid cattle have been de

by Trinity Gruenberg trinity@inhnews.com The Wadena County Commissioners held their regular meeting on Tuesday, July 7. Commissioner Murlyn Kreklau was absent. ADA Entrance Project The county board approved a modified design for an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)–compliant entrance on the north side of the courthouse, choosing to keep an existing pine tree and drop a previously discussed connection to the annex. The project will add the new entrance ramp on the north

News from Clarissa's Past 25 Years Ago July 11, 2001 A public hearing was held for the alley tarring by the trailer court at the July 2 council meeting. The issue was tabled until the next council meeting to be held on Tuesday, July 17. The cost of tarring the alley would be $5300 with 80% of the cost passed on to the homeowners. There were citizens on both sides of the issue. Those in favor of it felt it was a street, why not pave it? It has been patched for 13 years and

News from Browerville's Past 25 Years Ago July 12, 2001 Wade Johnson thinks that if he had gotten a chance to address neighbors’ concerns about his business expansion plans, they may have supported his bid for a conditional use permit to add slaughtering to his meat market business. But Johnson said the neighbors and officials at the zoning meeting didn’t listen to him. And, he said, two or three phone calls to County Commissioner Gary Feist to discuss the issue went unanswe

News from Bertha and Hewitt's Pasts 25 Years Ago July 11, 2001 Martina Hendrickson’s sister, Eleanora Berthiaume, who lives just outside of Hewitt checked on a shed that had blown over in the storm. Inside she found a mother cat and eight of her kittens who had perished in the building. Three other kittens were still alive. One died shortly after being found. The other two were taken to Martina’s daughter, Cathy, who was at work at the time, and brought them home. Gizmo, th