Thursday, December 8th: The Granite Falls Senior Advisory Board along with Senior Advocate are hosting an Open House at the Granite Falls Senior Center 2-4 p.m. to celebrate the “new look”. See improvements made to the Senior Center, enjoy refreshments and sign up for the door prize (quilt made by Bev Nordang).`
The end result of the November elections showed that voters in Yellow Medicine County had elected Stephen Emery with 1,958 votes, while incumbent Yellow Medicine County Attorney Mark Gruenes tallied 1,799 votes. However, last week, Emery declined the win.
We were very fortunate to have some great weather over the long Thanksgiving Weekend. On Saturday, temperatures were in the 40s and 50s across the state! Rush City hit a very warm high of 56 degrees! Windom, Hutchinson, and Jackson all topped out at 55 degrees, while Brainerd climbed to 51 degrees.
MN Department of Natural Resources - Enforcement Division Balvin, Kevin Douglas, Canby; Offense date 11/12/22 Hunting - Transportation of Firearms Loaded Firearm (Misdemeanor); Plea 11/20/22 Guilty; Disposition 11/20/22 Convicted; Court Decision 11/20/22 Payable without appearance; $100 Fine. Balvin, Douglas James, Canby; Offense date 11/12/22 Hunting - Transportation of Firearms Loaded Firearm (Misdemeanor); Plea 11/18/22 Guilty; Disposition 11/18/22 Convicted; Court Decision 11/18/22 Payable without appearance; $100 Fine.
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The Clarkfield American Legion & Auxiliary will have a potluck supper at 6pm at the Clarkfield City Hall on Wed. Dec.
If you’re reading this, unfortunate news: by the time this paper goes to print, our community artist-in-residence Leah Cook will have left Granite Falls. The upside is that since her goodbye party will already have happened at the Rock on Tuesday, I can safely share that we gave her a whole bunch of sock puppets as a going-away present (unless, of course, I forgot them at home – always a possibility).
Yesterday I was “supervising” some work in the basement – keeping my friend company who was trying to figure out a water drainage issue. I don’t hang on to a lot of things but since I started writing in journals six years ago, I’ve kept all of them in a bookshelf.
Around a month ago, my daughters convinced me that the thing to do was to adopt a puppy from the Hawk Creek Animal Shelter. All of our pets have only ever been rescues, but we have never adopted an actual baby animal. Thus, I underestimated how much effort raising a puppy would entail.
Prairie Five CAC, Inc. is honored to announce and to be partnering with 6WRTCC, MDAV, Mn-DOT and the five county veterans service officers of Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine and Swift, in offering free rides to veterans.