2024

Nancy Black, Tribune Content Agency TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (09/19/24). Career expansion delights this year.

What parent hasn’t been there? It’s been a long day, you still have dinner to make, maybe lunches for tomorrow, too, and you just don’t have the energy to wrangle your kids into a new art project or plead with them to pick up a book.

Paulette Johnson described her brother John’s move from one nursing home to another as “traumatic.” John Johnson had lived in the Meadow Lane Restorative Care Center in Benson for about five years before he had to leave when the center announced its closure last summer. Since the COVID pandemic, nursing homes across Minnesota have been closing at alarming rates, due to financial stressors.

Reconnecting was the goal of the first Ridgewater College Foundation Board Member Reunion Sept. 11 in Spicer.

A Dassel man died Saturday from burns he suffered in a gas explosion. According to a Meeker County Sheriff’s Office news release, Jeffery Holmquist, 46, died from injuries he suffered when there was an explosion inside a fish house in the 70000 block of 178th Street in Collinwood Township.