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News from Verndale's Past 40 Years Ago, December 25, 1985 • Verndale played host to a convention held last weekend for the Mrs. Santa Clauses, who assembled to list their gripes. They were opposed to the color red, and opted for purple. They declared “Plump is in” and asked for various items such as a cook stove, automatic poopper-scooper, a moped and more. They welcomed the “real Mrs. Santa” (Alyce Seaton). At the conclusion of their program they performed a dance. • Kim T

by Trinity Gruenberg trinity@inhnews.com The Verndale City Council held their regular meeting on Monday, December 8. Sidewalk Cost Overage Settled Moore Engineering provided an update on the Safe Routes to School sidewalk project. John Pauna of Moore Engineering explained that the project had exceeded its original budget of $436,237.79, reaching a final recommended total of $499,675.85. The overage ($63,438) was due to various field adjustments and additional work, includ

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The Initiative Foundation has awarded 17 grants totaling $740,000 through the Otto Bremer Trust’s Community Responsive Fund, supporting Central Minnesota nonprofits that are improving lives and strengthening communities. The Community Responsive Fund distributed $3 million to 64 organizations in Greater Minnesota. The Initiative Foundation helped administer the funding across Greater Minnesota to ensure resources reached local organizations that understand their community’s

The Wadena County Sheriff’s Office has taken measures to transition our CodeRED emergency system following a recent cyberattack and data breach that has impacted hundreds of agencies nationwide. CodeRED is a critical notification system used to deliver time-sensitive alerts during severe weather events, public safety threats, and other emergencies. CodeRED has reported the impacted dataset may contain contact information of CodeRED users such as: name, address, email addre

Wadena County Attorney Kyra Ladd was presented with the Minnesota County Attorneys’ Association (MCAA) Johnson Distinguished Service Award at the 48th Annual MCAA meeting held in Bloomington on December 3.  The award is presented to a county attorney who has demonstrated a history of significant leadership, strived to improve the quality of justice, and whose activity has increased and enhanced public awareness of the office of county attorney at the state and/or national le

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by Coach Greg Johnson On Thursday, December 11th, the Boys Basketball team hosted the Sebeka Trojans. The Pirates came up short in this one in a very low-scoring game and lost by a score of 39-30. Braylin Deleon led the Pirates in scoring with 14 points. He also grabbed 5 rebounds on the night. Zain Waldahl led the team in rebounds with 6, while Kyler Vertina led the team in steals with 6. Bryce Pickar added 3 blocked shots on the night... Subscribe to get the rest of the st

by Coach Sam Schmitz Despite Emily Elfstrum’s 20-point night, the Verndale Pirates fell to the Sebeka Trojans 40-51 on December 11. Elfstrum hit three second-half three-pointers to keep the game within reach, but the Pirates were unable to get key defensive stops. The Pirates were 7 of 10 (70%) from the free-throw line, but the Trojans had more trips to the charity stripe and were 8 of 25 (32%). The Pirates gave up 32 points in the paint. Elfstrum also grabbed 8 defensive re

Wrestling managed to get their Tuesday matchups with Frazee and Royalton rescheduled to Thursday night in Frazee. It was a great night of wrestling for Raiders as they won both matches quite easily. First they took down Frazee 37-25 and beat Royalton 64-12. At the Grand Forks Sertoma on December 13 Wrestling Team Tourney: BHVPP defeated Fargo North 50-19; Fargo Davies defeated BHVPP 33-31; BHVPP defeated Central Cass 38-33; BHVPP defeated Bismarck Century 36-30; BHVPP def