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LOCAL NEWS MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2020

06/29/2020

THE ROSEAU SCHOOL IS PLANNING A JULY 16TH  GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY FOR IT’S FORTY MILLION DOLLAR RENOVATION AND BUILDING PROJECT.

KRAUS-ANDERSON IS THE GENERAL CONTRACTOR;   BOB FITZGERALD,  WITH  K/A,  TALKS ABOUT MORE THAN TWO YEARS OF WORK WITH STUDENTS AND STAFF IN THE SAME SPACE.

THE FIRST PART OF THE WORK IS IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE ROSEAU SCHOOL.

 

THE ROSEAU COUNTY BOARD,  LAST WEEK,  HELD A LENGTHY DISCUSSION ON WATER ISSUES IN THE GREENBUSH AREA.

 

LIFECARE PUBLIC HEALTH HAS BEEN DOING COVID CASE INVESTIGATIONS SINCE JUNE FIRST,  WHEN THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TURNED LOCAL CONTACT TRACING TO LOCAL HEALTHCARE.

BROOKE HOMSTAD AT LIFECARE PUBLIC HEALTH SAYS CASE INVESTIGATIONS INCLUDE LETTING PEOPLE KNOW WHEN THEIR ISOLATION PERIOD ENDS,  AND THEY ASK HOW PUBLIC HEALTH CAN HELP.

 

THE ROSEAU PUBLIC LIBRARY IS EXPECTED TO  RE-OPEN TODAY.

THE LIBRARY HAS BEEN CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC FOR THREE MONTHS.

 

MINNESOTA’S  TOBACCO BUYING AGE IS NOW  21.

IT HAD BEEN 18 BEFORE A LEGISLATIVE CHANGE WAS SIGNED INTO LAW LAST MONTH BY GOVERNOR TIM WALZ.

LAURA SMITH,  WITH CLEARWAY MINNESOTA,  SAYS THAT’S GOOD NEWS;  BUT THAT YOUTH VAPING REMAINS A MAJOR HEALTH ISSUE;

AND THAT BANNING FLAVORED TOBACCO WOULD HELP.

LAST YEAR’S MINNESOTA STUDENT SURVEY SHOWED ONE-QUARTER OF ALL HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS HAD USED  E-CIGARETTES IN THE PREVIOUS MONTH.

 

MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR MARJORIE  MADISON OF ROSEAU ARE THIS MORNING AT  ELEVEN  AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN ROSEAU.

MARJORIE  MADISON DIED IN APRIL AT AGE 85.

 

THE PERSONAL FINANCE WEBSITE  WalletHub  SAYS MINNESOTA HAS THE FIFTH HIGHEST TAX BURDEN IN THE UNITED STATES,   BEHIND  NEW YORK,  HAWAII,  VERMONT AND MAINE.

THAT’S BASED ON A COMBINATION OF SALES,  INCOME AND PROPERTY TAXES.

NORTH DAKOTA IS  34TH.

THE LOWEST TAX BURDENED STATES ARE ALASKA,  DELAWARE,  TENNESSEE AND WYOMING.

 

THERE WERE EIGHT MORE COVID-19 DEATHS IN MINNESOTA YESTERDAY, INCLUDING ONE IN KOOCHICHING COUNTY.

THERE ARE STILL SIX CONFIRMED CORONAVIRUS CASES IN ROSEAU COUNTY,  ACCORDING TO THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.

 

TODAY’S GRAND FORKS HERALD HAS A FRONT PAGE FEATURE ON THE PINE TO PRAIRIE BIRDING TRAIL,  WHICH WAS STARTED IN  1998,  AND COVERS MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED MILES OF MINNESOTA HIGHWAYS.

ROSEAU AND WARROAD ARE TWO OF THE STOPS ON THAT BIRDING TRAIL.

 

THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES SAYS ARCHERY, FIREARMS AND MUZZLELOADER HUNTERS HARVESTED  187, 587  WHITETAIL DEER IN  2019.

THAT’S JUST OVER A THOUSAND LESS THAN WERE HARVESTED IN  2018.

HUNTERS HARVESTED NEARLY  198 THOUSAND DEER IN 2017.

THE D.N.R.  STUDY SAYS THERE WAS AN EIGHT PERCENT INCREASED IN THE BUCK HARVEST LAST YEAR,  AND A NINE PERCENT DECREASE IN ANTLERLESS DEER.

 

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