September 2024

Guess Who?

Each week, the Advocate Tribune will share a photograph from our archives for you to “guess who”.

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From the Editor’s Desk

As fall approaches more quickly than one would perhaps like, the calendar fills up at an alarming rate with sporting events, activities, school happenings, meetings regarding fall and winter events that happen in the local area, and of course, election related happenings.This year for the first time in perhaps a great many years, the newspaper is working on hosting a candidates forum in Granite Falls for local mayor and council candidates.

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Suspect identified in SWAT standoff

Last week, in a press release from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the suspect involved in a police standoff with SWAT in rural Clarkfield, was identified as Kasey Paul Willander, age 27 of Clarkfield.Willander received gunshot wounds during the standoff, and is, according to the press release, hospitalized in stable condition at HCMC.

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