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LOCAL NEWS MONDAY, JUNE 8, 2020

06/08/2020

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ISSUED THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS AND TORNADO WATCHES YESTERDAY AND LAST NIGHT FOR PARTS OF NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA, INCLUDING ROSEAU COUNTY.
CARL JONES, AT THE GRAND FORKS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE, SAID THE HEAVIEST WEATHER OCCURRED SOUTH AND WEST OF ROSEAU, WITH HIGH WINDS AND HAIL.
JONES SAYS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE TODAY, AS THE TEMP APPROACHES 90 IN ROSEAU COUNTY.

 

A PUBLIC VISITATION WITH SOCIAL DISTANCING IS SATURDAY MORNING (Ten to Noon) AT HELGESON FUNERAL CHAPEL IN WARROAD FOR RUTH STUKEL OF WARROAD. A PRIVATE FAMILY SERVICE WILL BE HELD AT A LATER DATE. THE FAMILY ASKS THAT MEMORIALS BE DIRECTED TO THE WARROAD HERITAGE CENTER OR “HELPP, INC”.
RUTH STUKEL, A FORMER WARROAD MAYOR AND WARROAD ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE WAS 94.

 

PRIVATE FAMILY SERVICES FOR DONALD McFARLANE OF BAUDETTE WILL BE HELD AT THE PITT COMMUNITY CHURCH. A PUBLIC GRAVESIDE SERVICE IS NEXT TUESDAY (June 16/ Noon) AT THE HILLSIDE “ZIPPEL” CEMETERY IN RURAL BAUDETTE, WITH MILITARY HONORS BY THE BAUDETTE VETERANS CEREMONIAL SQUAD.
DONALD McFARLANE WAS 99.

 

MEMORIAL SERVICES ARE PENDING FOR ELVIRA LINDGREN OF BAUDETTE.
SHE WAS 90.

 

DOZENS GATHERED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON NEAR THE HIGHWAY ELEVEN BRIDGE IN ROSEAU FOR A BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTEST.

 

THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAYS ROSEAU COUNTY NOW HAS FOUR CONFIRMED CASES OF CORONAVIRUS, AND THERE ARE 34 CASES IN PENNINGTON COUNTY.
LAKE OF THE WOODS AND COOK COUNTIES STILL HAVE NO CONFIRMED CASES.

 

THE TOGETHER AGAIN TOUR, FEATURING BURTON CUMMINGS AND RANDY BACHMAN, IS NOW SET TO START IN JUNE 2021.
CUMMINGS AND BACHMAN WERE CO-FOUNDERS OF THE WINNIPEG BAND “THE GUESS WHO”. BACHMAN LATER FOUNDED BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE, WHILE CUMMINGS HAD A SOLO CAREER.

 

ROAD CONSTRUCTION ON HIGHWAY TWO IN BAGLEY STARTS THIS WEEK, MEANING LANE CLOSURES AND DELAYS.

 

ROSEAU’S NORTHLAND RANGE AND GUN CLUB RE-OPENS TOMORROW FOR TRAP AND SKEET SHOOTING.
THE CLUB WILL BE OPEN TUESDAY NIGHTS.

 

PARTS OF THE TWIN CITIES MOST AFFECTED BY RIOTING AND LOOTING DURING THE GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS ARE GETTING SOME DONATED HELP, IN THE FORM OF FOOD DONATIONS.
ANNIE NELSON STANOCH, WITH HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA, SAYS MONETARY DONATIONS WOULD ALSO BE HELPFUL.

 

THE ROSEAU SCHOOL BOARD, LAST WEEK, APPROVED ADVERTISING TO HIRE AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL TO REPLACE KELSEY JOHNSON, WHO RESIGNED TO TAKE A JOB IN ANOTHER DISTRICT.
THE NEW HIRE WILL BE A K-12 ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL; JOHNSON HAD BEEN THE HIGH SCHOOL ASSISTANT.

 

THE ROSEAU COUNTY BOARD HAS RENEWED AN AGREEMENT WITH KITTSON COUNTY FOR PART-TIME HIGHWAY ENGINEERING SERVICES.
ROSEAU COUNTY HIGHWAY ENGINEER BRIAN KETRING HAS BEEN ASSISTING KITTSON COUNTY SINCE THE DEPARTURE OF KELLY BENGTSON EARLIER THIS YEAR.

 

THE ROSEAU CITY COUNCIL, LAST WEEK, RECOGNIZED MONETARY DONATIONS FROM BORDER STATE BANK, CITIZENS STATE BANK, LIFECARE MEDICAL CENTER AND STOSKOPF REDI-MIX TO THE RIVERVIEW PARK GAZEBO CONCERT FUND.

 

A ROSEAU COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COVID RESPONSE PLAN INCLUDES PLACEMENT OF SYMPTOMATIC PEOPLE IN ISOLATION, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE A SELF-ISOLATION OPTION.
ROSEAU COUNTY IS PARTNERING WITH NORTHWEST COMMUNITY ACTION FOR SCATTERED SITE HOUSING SUCH AS RENTAL HOUSES AND TRAILERS.

 

A ROSEAU COUNTY BOARD OF APPEAL AND EQUALIZATION IS A WEEK FROM TOMORROW.
THAT’S FOR PEOPLE TO MAKE A FINAL APPEAL OVER THEIR PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENTS.
COUNTY ASSESSOR LIZ LUND SAYS THERE WERE FEW RESIDENTIAL CHANGES IN THE MOST RECENT ASSESSMENT PERIOD.

 

THE NORTHWEST MINNESOTA RETIRED AND SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM HAS A FOURTEEN DAY MEAL KIT AS PART OF THEIR COVID-19 RESPONSE, WHICH THEY’RE HOPING TO CONTINUE INTO THE FALL.
TAMMY FROHLICH IS THE R-S-V-P PROGRAM DIRECTOR.
KC’S COUNTRY MARKETS IN BADGER AND GREENBUSH; SUPER ONE FOODS IN ROSEAU; AND DOUG’S SUPERMARKET IN WARROAD HAVE PARTNERED WITH R-S-V-P FOR THAT PROGRAM.

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