December 2023

Registration open for Minnesota DNR webinars on winter outdoor skills and stewardship

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources invites people interested in wildlife and outdoor skills to check out the winter program schedule for the Minnesota Outdoor Skills and Stewardship Series.Webinars will cover winter sports that take place on the ice, owls, the northern lights, mudpuppies, reading the snow for animal tracks, ice fishing, boats and boating equipment, fish art, wolves, deer in winter, lynx and muskrats, winter foraging, and Critical Habitat license plates.

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Yellow Medicine County Courts

MN State Patrol - MarshallEuceda Hernandez, Armando, Watertown, South Dakota; Offense date 10/27/23 No Minnesota Drivers License (Misdemeanor); Plea 11/17/23 Guilty; Disposition 11/17/23 Convicted; Court Decision 11/17/23 Payable without appearance; $100 Fine.Aleman Hernandez, Norman Leonardo, Marshall; Offense date 5/27/23 No Minnesota Drivers License (Misdemeanor); Plea 11/9/23 Guilty; Disposition 11/9/23 Convicted; Court Decision 11/9/23 Sentenced; $100 Fine.Ruiz, Lianette, Montevideo; Offense date 10/21/23 No Minnesota Drivers License (Misdemeanor); Plea 11/9/23 Guilty; Disposition 11/9/23 Convicted; Court Decision 11/9/23 Payable without appearance; $100 Fine.Mencia Echaver, Estaban, Montevideo; Offense date 10/24/23 No Minnesota Drivers License (Misdemeanor); Plea 11/21/23 Guilty; Disposition 11/21/23 Convicted; Court Decision 11/21/23 Payable without appearance; $100 Fine.Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s OfficeKrautkremer, McKenzie Judith, Saint Cloud; Offense date 8/29/21 Traffic - DAR (Misdemeanor); Plea 11/17/23 Guilty; Disposition 11/17/23 Convicted; Court Decision 11/17/23 Sentenced; $25 Fine.Catalan Robles, Adiel, Clarkfield; Offense date 10/23/23 Traffic - DAC (Misdemeanor); Plea 11/10/23 Guilty; Disposition 11/10/23 Convicted; Court Decision 11/10/23 Payable without appearance; $200 Fine.Wells, Timothy Jay Jr, Granite Falls; Offense date 10/21/23 Traffic - Third Degree DWI - Operate Motor Vehicle - Alcohol Concentration 0.08 within 2 hours (Misdemeanor); Plea 11/20/23 Guilty; Disposition 11/20/23 Convicted; Court Decision 11/20/23 Sentenced Local Confinement (90 Days, Stay 0 Yr 0 Mo 89 Days for 1 Yr Credit for time served: 1 days); $300 Fine.Canby Police DepartmentTucker, Chelsea Lynn, Porter; Offense date 8/21/23 Disorderly Conduct - Offensive/Abusive/Boisterous/Noisy/Obscene (Misdemeanor); Plea 9/18/23 Guilty; Disposition 11/9/23 Stay of adjudication; Court Decision 11/9/23 Continued Local Confinement (2 Days credit for time served: 2 days); $200 Fine.Jennings, Rachel Ivy Alma, Chaska; Offense date 12/14/21 Traffic - DAR (Misdemeanor); Plea 11/20/23 Guilty; Disposition 11/20/23 Stay of adjudication; Court Decision 11/20/23 Continued; $50 Fine.Joseph, Valentino Akol, Canby; Offense date 11/7/23 Fourth Degree Driving While Impaired with BAC of .08 or more as measured within two hours of driving (Misdemeanor); Plea 11/21/23 Guilty; Disposition 11/21/23 Convicted; Court Decision 11/21/23 Sentenced Local Confinement (90 Days, Stay 0 Yr 0 Mo 75 Days For 1 Yr Credit for time served: 15 Days); $250 Fine.Granite Falls Police DepartmentLaCount, Melinda Ann, Willmar; Offense date 7/31/23 Disorderly Conduct - Offensive/Abusive/Boisterous/Noisy/Obscene (Misdemeanor); Plea 10/2/23 Guilty; Disposition 11/9/23 Convicted; Court Decision 11/9/23 Sentenced Local Confinement (90 Days, Stay 0 Yr 0 Mo 88 Days For 1 Yr Credit for time served: 2 Days); $200 Fine.

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Garrison Keillor & Friends: Thank goodness for Minnesota

Winter is here, people, and let’s face it — somebody has to live up here in the north, we can’t all sit around Mirage-a-Lounge, Florida, and play golf every day, somebody has to raise the soybeans and defend the border against the insatiable Canadians, and so here we are, putting on our puffy coats that make us look fat and stocking caps that destroy our hairstyle and heading out into the frigid blast and going to work and getting important stuff done, and not passing nuclear secrets around to our pals at the club or doubling the size of our penthouse on loan applications.

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