Month: March 2021

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has posted to its Facebook page, “Due to a large grass fire, Highway 2 is closed from 140th Ave SW (approximately 12 miles east of Crookston) to Highway 32.”

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The Crookston Chamber of Commerce recently held their first Chamber Ambassador visits in almost a year to welcome Erin LaPlante as a new State Farm Insurance agent, taking over Courtney Poulkrabek’s office location in downtown Crookston.

“It’s been almost a year since we’ve held Crookston Chamber Ambassador visits due to COVID guidelines. We have many visits to catch up on from the past year from leadership changes and growth in our business community,” said Crookston Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Terri Heggie. “Recently one of our teams stopped by for a ribbon-cutting and to present the first clear dollar of profit for Erin LaPlante of State Farm Insurance.”

Pictured above left to right – Jennifer Larson of State Farm, Terri Heggie of the Crookston Chamber, Tracy Kuchan of LeBlanc Realty, Lance Norman of RiverView Health, Kalie Normandin of LeBlanc Realty, Erin LaPlante of State Farm, Lindsey Erdman of Benedictine Living Community, Carrie Michalski of RiverView Health, Shayla Solberg of Altru Health System and Sandy Perkins of State Farm. 

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The Minnesota Department of Health is reporting 1,453 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, 97 probable cases from antigen testing, and 5 deaths. The confirmed cases are the result of 20,669 completed tests for a positive rate of 7 percent.  

Polk County had 4 confirmed cases, Lake of the Woods County-4 cases, Roseau County-3 cases, Marshall County-2 cases, Mahnomen County-1 case, and Red Lake County-1 case.

Updated March 29, 2021
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• CDC: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Cases in the U.S.
• Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome In Children (MIS-C) Statistics
• COVID-19 Vaccine Data: Provider Registration

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Local Garden Valley Technologies (GVT) Internet subscribers are experiencing a large-scale internet outage across the service area. This outage is caused by an ethernet switch issue that connects the DNS/DHCP servers. We are working as quickly as possible to get service restored and will send an update as soon as that has happened. GVT apologizes for the inconvenience that an Internet outage like this causes for the members.

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The Northwest Regional Corrections Center announced the arrests of the following individuals:

Mohammed Yasin Yousif, 21, for felony theft of a motor vehicle.

Robin Star McGillis, 29, for gross misdemeanor 4th-degree assault of a public employee.

Benjamin Gerald Owen, 38 of Thief River Falls, for felony theft of a motor vehicle.

Gregory Gregory Clemons, 60 of Glenwood, for a felony firearm violation as a felon convicted of a crime of violence.

The Crookston Fire Department responded to the following calls on 3/28/2021:

At approximately 5:30 p.m., the CFD was called to the Hammond Township for a grass fire. Upon arrival, the grass fire had approached some power poles and CFD extinguished flames. The power company was notified and CFD cleared the scene.

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On Sunday at 12:47 p.m. the Polk County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a one-vehicle injury accident at 270th Avenue SW and 420th Street SW (north of Beltrami). The driver, Denis Aubol (age 39) of Crookston, left the roadway and struck a power pole. Aubol was taken by private vehicle to Riverview Hospital for minor injuries. The vehicle had extensive damage. Red River Valley Cooperative Power Association responded to evaluate the power pole(unknown damage value at this time). Alcohol was not a factor. Assisting with the accident was the Beltrami Fire Department.

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