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		<description>granitefallsnews.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more.</description>
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		<title>Clarkfield  to contract with county for policing, Ecumen tabs Ness as new Clarkfield Care  Center Administrator</title>
		<link>http://www.granitefallsnews.com/article/20130523/NEWS/130529742/1025/BUSINESS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 12:05:16</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Eric J. Monson
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		<description><![CDATA[Two big questions were answered in the city of Clarkfield during City Council proceedings Tuesday night. First, the council voted unanimously to enter into final contract negotiations with the Yellow Medicine County Sheriff to provide full law enforcement for the city and will be disbanding their one-car police force. Prior to that discussion, however, interim Clarkfield Care Center Administrator Mike Miller announced that Charles Ness, from Cottonwood, will be hired by the management company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Granite Falls council continues&#8200;housing ordinance talks </title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:44:35</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Scott Tedrick
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday night's Granite Falls City Council meeting saw the continuation of discussions regarding the seemingly imminent new rental and housing ordinance.<br>The council is still at least two meetings away from approving the ordinance, which would give the city new legal powers to address blighted properties within the community. The council must hold two readings of the document before accepting it into the city charter but has continued to hold off as they tweak the final language.]]></description>
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		<title>Minnesota Water Trails 50th Anniversary this weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.granitefallsnews.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519650/1025/BUSINESS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 8:28:09</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Minnesota&#8217;s State Water Trails system, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is participating in Clean Up the River Environment&#8217;s (CURE&#8217;s) annual Minnesota River History weekend, May 17-19 in Granite Falls.]]></description>
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		<title>USDA announces final call for 2012 Census of Agriculture</title>
		<link>http://www.granitefallsnews.com/article/20130513/NEWS/130519927/1025/BUSINESS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 8:57:58</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the window to respond to the 2012 Census of Agriculture officially closing on May 31, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is urging farmers and ranchers not to miss this opportunity to be counted and help determine the future of farming in America. USDA has already received more than 2 million completed Census forms.]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Cross puts the brakes on new payment model, brings relief to GF Hospital at least temporarily</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 8:44:26</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Scott Tedrick
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		<description><![CDATA[Plans by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (BCBS) to implement a new payment model that is expected to have an egregious impact on the bottom line of the Granite Falls Hospital and other rural health providers have been throttled back until January 1, 2014, according to a statement released by the health insurer on Wednesday, May 1&#8211; the same day that the new model had been scheduled to go into effect.]]></description>
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		<title>Silvio Calabi: Enclave is the good news, bad news Buick</title>
		<link>http://www.granitefallsnews.com/article/20130506/NEWS/130509697/1025/BUSINESS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Mon, 6 May 2013 16:17:24</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Silvio Calabi, More Content Now
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when we thought it was safe to go back to Detroit, after the hard lessons carmakers learned in the Great Contraction, along comes the Buick Enclave. I don’t mean to suggest that it’s a new car — the Enclave debuted as a 2008 model, which explains a lot — but that it already needs a pavement-up makeover.<br>The good news, early in ‘08, just before Capitalism collapsed, was that the Enclave was a modern unit-body, three-row, front-wheel/all-wheel-drive crossover vehicle that managed its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greg Zyla: 1958 Lincoln was massive</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 6 May 2013 16:15:55</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Greg Zyla, More Content Now
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: Greg, I’d like to know about what happened to the Lincolns from back in the 1950s. Up until 1958, I thought the styling was quite nice for a luxury car. Then in 1958, Lincoln came out with a massive piece of monstrosity that to this day I think was the biggest Lincoln to date.  What happened in 1958?  Chuck L., Evanston, Ill.<br>A: Chuck, the year 1958 was one of those years that the stylists went crazy with “big.” Regardless of model, from Buick to Chrysler to Ford, manufacturers flooded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital takes hit: Dramatic, sudden change by Blue Cross Blue Shield could cost close to $1M</title>
		<link>http://www.granitefallsnews.com/article/20130502/NEWS/130509810/1025/BUSINESS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 2 May 2013 15:40:49</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Scott Tedrick, News Editor
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		<description><![CDATA[A new payment plan by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (BCBS) that went into effect May 1 is expected to have a crippling impact on the bottom line of Granite Falls Hospital and other rural health providers throughout the state.<br>&#8220;We're more than a little unsettled,&#8221; Granite Falls Hospital and Manor CEO George Gerlach told the StarTribune. &#8220;We're running on slim margins ... When Blue Cross rolls in and says we're going to cut your reimbursement significantly, it's a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miller gets bronze at Inventors Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 2 May 2013 12:37:03</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Eric J. Monson
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		<description><![CDATA[Bronze, at least chromatically, fits Orville &#8220;Shorty&#8221; Miller well. Gold would have been too glitzy and lusterous. Silver? Too shiny and pristine.<br>But, a bronze medal? That color blends well at Miller Equipment and Manufacturing, indistinguishable in color and luster from rusted steel, dirtied tin or aging cardboard boxes holding parts yet to be needed, or found. Bronze is an honest color for a working country fab-shop that is slowly being overrun by the glacial movement and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citywide, Scenic Byway garage sales this Saturday </title>
		<link>http://www.granitefallsnews.com/article/20130502/NEWS/130509837/1025/BUSINESS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 2 May 2013 12:26:41</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Minnesota River Valley Scenic Byway is coordinating a &#8220;Byway-long Garage Sale&#8221; on Saturday, May 4, which is the same time that the city of Granite Falls will be holding its annual garage sale.]]></description>
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		<title>Granite Falls&#8200;citywide clean-up set for Friday, May 10 </title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 2 May 2013 12:20:02</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past 13 years the city has coordinated this cleanup effort with the local refuse haulers who have in turn coordinated the pick-up of demo/debris material during the month of May.<br>May 10 Demo/debris<br>On Friday, May 10 the city wide clean up will take place from 8:00 a.m. until completion, to pick up the following materials:<br>&#8226;Debris and demo will be picked up at $9.60 per cubic yard which is the cost for disposal.]]></description>
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		<title>Yellow Medicine County pegs Heglund for administrator post</title>
		<link>http://www.granitefallsnews.com/article/20130425/NEWS/130429721/1025/BUSINESS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:35:23</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Scott Tedrick
News Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a 5-0 vote, Yellow Medicine County Commissioners have offered the position of County Administrator to present YMC&#8200;Family Services Director Peg Heglund&#8211;&#8211;and barring a last second change of heart it appears that the long-term YMC&#8200;employee will accept the offer.<br>&#8220;I'm very upbeat, very excited to get started,&#8221; Heglund said Tuesday evening. &#8220;I have many years of service with the county and am looking forward to continuing a working relationship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A walk for autism</title>
		<link>http://www.granitefallsnews.com/article/20130425/NEWS/130429730/1025/BUSINESS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:55:26</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Scott Tedrick
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		<description><![CDATA[Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in the United States, affecting 1 in 88 children. It is more common than juvenile diabetes, childhood cancer and AIDS combined. In Minnesota alone, more than 14,000 children have autism, and the numbers are rising rapidly.<br>Just as staggering as the statistics is the lack of awareness surrounding them, but thanks to the efforts of local Kathleen Preuss and others autism is getting the attention and support it deserves.]]></description>
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		<title>Clarkfield foundation announces  &#8220;30 for  15 in '13&#8221; opportunity</title>
		<link>http://www.granitefallsnews.com/article/20130425/NEWS/130429741/1025/BUSINESS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:41:53</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Clarkfield Area Community Foundation (CACF) is once again set to be the beneficiary of the generosity of F&M Bank. In 2013 F&M Bank will offer matching funds for each dollar given to the CACF&#8217;s permanent endowment fund up to $15,000.<br>The CACF was formed in 2008 to develop a permanent endowment fund to benefit the Clarkfield area community. It is the second time the F&M Bank has offered matching dollars to the foundation, gifting $25,000 in in-kind funds to the foundation in 2009.]]></description>
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		<title>Boundary Waters Canoe Area Among Nation's Most Endangered</title>
		<link>http://www.granitefallsnews.com/article/20130422/NEWS/130429977/1025/BUSINESS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:14:48</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Michaelson, Minn. News Connection</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The jewel of Minnesota's natural resources and tourism industry is also among America's Most Endangered Rivers for 2013."<br>The group American Rivers says the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is being threatened by a proposed copper and nickel mine near a popular entry point.]]></description>
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		<title>Highway 4 detour in Cosmos begins</title>
		<link>http://www.granitefallsnews.com/article/20130422/NEWS/130429989/1025/BUSINESS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 9:28:08</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Highway 4 reconstruction project in Cosmos began Monday, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation. The detour follows Highway 4 north to Highway 7, then east to Meeker County Road 1, north to County Road 28, and west to Highway 4.]]></description>
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		<title>GF&#8200;City Council looking into potential new housing ordinance</title>
		<link>http://www.granitefallsnews.com/article/20130419/NEWS/130419376/1025/BUSINESS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:57:20</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Scott Tedrick
News Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who fail to take adequate care of their homes or rental properties may face citations and other remedial measures if a new rental and housing ordinance is adopted into the Granited Falls City Charter.]]></description>
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		<title>YM County still looking for administrator, top choice drops out</title>
		<link>http://www.granitefallsnews.com/article/20130419/NEWS/130419438/1025/BUSINESS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 9:17:54</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Tedrick,
News Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The search for the county administrator continues. The top choice of Yellow Medicine County commissioners, Dakota County  Administrative Services Manager Heather Aagesen-Huebner, has removed herself from consideration following a failed attempt to by board members to rescind the initial offer.]]></description>
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		<title>YM County appliance, electronics, bulb and tire collection is May 4</title>
		<link>http://www.granitefallsnews.com/article/20130415/NEWS/130419693/1025/BUSINESS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:22:22</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The annual&#8200;Yellow Medicine County appliance and electronic collection will be held in the cities of Granite Falls, Clarkfield and Canby on May 4.<br>The collection in Granite&#8200;Falls will be held in the back parking lot of the Yellow Medicine County Courthouse (not the highway shop, as had been the custom) from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.; the city of Clarkfield at the Maintenance Shop from 11:30 to 2:30 p.m. and at the County Highway Shop in Canby from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.]]></description>
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		<title>Moore and CURE agree to part ways</title>
		<link>http://www.granitefallsnews.com/article/20130411/NEWS/130419793/1025/BUSINESS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:41:28</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Scott Tedrick
Staff Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Montevideo-based Clean Up the River Environment (CURE) and  its long-time Executive Director, Patrick Moore, have mutually agreed to part ways.  <br>This past Thursday, CURE&#8217;s Board of Directors approved a separation agreement. It is  expected to be a positive change for both parties.<br>&#8220;It was time to move on," said Moore.]]></description>
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