Month: May 2023

The Crookston Community Pool is closed until further notice.

Masonic Lodge is selling Vidalia onions at Scotts True Value now until supplies run out.

Sign up for the Minakwa Golf Course 3-person team Memorial Day Scramble that will be held on Sunday, May 28, for more details and to sign up, call 281-1774.

Highland Elementary School has postponed the 5th and 6th-Grade Band, Choir, and Orchestra Concert to Thursday, May 25, at 1:30 p.m.

Home Delivered Meals will be delivered this week by the Presbyterian Church.

Golden Link activities for Tuesday are Pinochle and Recycled Cards at 1:00 p.m. and SAIL at 2:30 p.m.

The Benedictine Villa Auxiliary will meet Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. at the Summit Apartment on the third floor. Any new and interested folks are welcome to come.

Golden Link activities for Wednesday are Mens Cards at 8:00 a.m., Cribbage at 10:00 a.m., and Bridge at 12:30 p.m.

The Fisher American Legion will have burger night on Wednesday.

The Crookston Housing and Economic Development Authority (CHEDA) will meet Thursday, May 25 at 7:00 a.m. at the Valley Technology Park.

Golden Link activities for Thursday are Foot Care from 8:30 a.m. to noon, Smear at 1:00 p.m., SAIL at 2:30 p.m., and a Thursday evening meal.

The Crookston Eagles Club will have bar bingo at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, the kitchen will serve food.

The Crookston Eagles Club will have bar bingo at 6:30 p.m. on Friday with $500 must-go.

The Crookston Eagles Club will have bar bingo at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday with $400 must-go.

Join the Kiwanis Builders Club in walking dogs and collecting donations for Scruffy Tails Humane Society on Saturday, May 27, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at 720 East Robert Street in Crookston. You can bring donations of cat and dog food, cat litter, and paper towels.

The Crookston Public School District will have no school on Monday, May 29, for Memorial Day.

Crookston City Hall will be closed on Monday, May 29 in observance of Memorial Day. Garbage Collection in Crookston for Monday, May 29th (Memorial Day) will be collected on Tuesday, May 30.

The Golden Link will be closed on Memorial Day, Monday, May 29.

The Crookston Veterans Council Memorial Day program will be held on Monday, May 29, at 10:00 a.m. at Oakdale Cemetery in Crookston. A flag raising at the entrance following the ceremony. At 11:00 a.m., the Naval Ceremony will be held at the Sampson Bridge.

The Fisher American Legion Memorial Day program will be held at 10:00 a.m. at the Fisher School on Monday, May 29. The Auxiliary Memorial Day Luncheon will be from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The public is invited.

The Sandhill Church Memorial Day Program will be held Monday, May 29, 2023, at 10:30 a.m. at Sand Hill Lutheran Church. The guest speaker is Mike Nielsen from Fisher, MN. The program also includes musical selections and readings, followed by the Honor Guard Ceremony and lunch. Everyone welcome.

The Polk County Transfer Station will be closed on Memorial Day Monday. Normal hours will resume at 7:00 a.m. Tuesday, May 30.

The Polk County Historical Museum Season Opener celebration will be Tuesday, May 30, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Everybody is welcome to visit the renovatedmuseum andenjoy freewine and snacks provided by the Irishmans Shanty and Polk County Historical Society board members.The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from noon to 4:00 p.m. Admission is free.

The last day of school for the Crookston Public School District will be on Thursday, June 1.

Polk County Household Hazardous Waste Collections will be held at the Fertile Fairgrounds on Friday, June 2, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. and at the East Shore Beach Area of Maple Lake off County Highway 10 on Saturday, June 3, from 9:00 a.m. to noon. The Polk County Transfer Station accepts household hazardous waste Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 year-round.

Crookston Spring registration for Driver Education is open to all students currently enrolled in Crookston Public Schools. The next session will be June 5 through the 20. Additionalregistration forms for fall and winter are also available to check dates and times to determine the best time for driver education for your child. Please return your registration to the High School Office and pay in the High School office prior to the first day of class. All information is on the registration forms here. If you have any questions, please contact Chris Trostad at Highland School at 218-281-5600.

Lutheran Social Service Meals, with support from DSAAA and United Way, will distribute meals to individuals 60 plus on Monday, June 12th, at 9:00 AM at Golden Link in Crookston. Recipients will receive a bundle of 10 meals, first come, first served. To register, contact Wendy Jerry at 218-773-3017.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary 1902 Crookston will have their regular meeting at the Golden Link Senior Center on Tuesday, June 13, at 6:00 p.m.

CONTINUING ANNOUNCEMENTS

Highland School is currently looking for donations of new or gently used winter gloves. Please drop off any donations at the Highland School Office if you are interested in donating.

The Crookston Care & Share is now accepting donations of Womens, Mens, and childrens coats and jackets, jeans, sweatshirts, long sleeve t-shirts, and winter gear, as well as toiletries and other common items. Donations may be dropped off at the Care and Share Center at 220 East Third Street.

ThePrairieSkylineFoundation is looking for new members. For those interested in joining, you can contact Kay Hegge at 218-289-1246.

Second booster doses of Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are now available at Altru Clinic in Crookston for people 50 and older and those 12 and older who are immunocompromised. The second booster dose must be administered at least four months after the first booster. Adults who received Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) for their primary vaccine and booster dose at least four months ago may now receive a second booster dose of Pfizer or Moderna only. To schedule your COVID-19 booster dose in Altru Clinic in Crookston, please call 218.281.9100.

The Benedictine Living Community Auxiliary is looking for new members. For those interested in joining, you can contact President Diane Seddon at 218-280-6736.

The Crookston License Center is now offering the Class D written test for permits, new-to-state residents, and MN reinstatements. The test is available by appointment for a fee of $10.00. If you want to schedule an appointment, please call 218.281.5423 or email licensecenter@co.polk.mn.us.

The Crookston Public Librarys Books & Brews Book Club meet on the fourth Tuesday of every other month at 6:30 p.m. at Drafts Sports Bar and Grill. They will discuss books and enjoy beverages. Appetizers are provided by the Friends of the Crookston Public Library; participants are responsible for the cost of their own food and drinks. All are welcome.

The Crookston Public Librarys Reading by the Red Book Club meets on the fourth Tuesday of every other month at the library at 6:30 p.m. They will discuss books and enjoy beverages.

The Golden Link is serving noon lunch Monday through Friday. The cost is $8. Veterans meals are half-price on the first Monday of the month. Call 281-3072 by 10:00 the day you plan to have lunch.

The Crookston Friends of the Library meet on the third Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m.

The Crookston Library Board meets on the first Wednesday of each month at 5:15 p.m.

The Cove Youth Center in Crookston is open Monday through Friday from 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.Students and parents should call ahead to check the availability of the youth center at 218-470-0149.

Polk County Public Health is available to answer questions about COVID-19 and help obtain essential services such as groceries, medications, and other daily items at 281-3385. The phone is staffed Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. 4:30 p.m.

The Crookston Care and Share Centers Donation and New Hope Food Shelf will be open every Monday and Wednesday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. and every Friday from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. For information on the Care and Share New Hope Food Shelf website, click here. For more information or to donate, call 218-277-0000.

The Golden Link is now renting rooms for parties. Free for members. Call 218-281-3072 for details.

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The Northwest Regional Corrections Center in Crookston reported the arrest of the following-

Jimmie Lee Bates III, 27 of Moorhead, for fleeing a peace officer

Tyler Housker Williamson, 25 of Thief River Falls, for DUI with alcohol concentration of .08 within two hours

Grant Elliot Tuseth, 37 of Crookston, crimes against railroad, trespassing

Austin Ambrose May, 25 no address provided, for felony domestic assault

Joseph Allen Corneillie, 44 of East Grand Forks, for public nuisance

The Crookston Fire Department (CFD) responded to the following calls on 5/22/2023 –

At 11:34 a.m., the CFD responded to the 100 block of Sargent St. for a report of an alarm activation. Upon arrival, it was found that cooking had caused the alarm activation. There was no danger present. The CFD ventilated the residence and reset the alarm. The CFD then cleared the scene.

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The Crookston City Council met on Monday evening in the Crookston City Hall Council Chambers.

FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT STAFFING CHANGES
The council approved the current Finance Director Ryan Lindtwed request for a transfer from the position of Finance Director to the City Accountant position. The current City Accountant, Audrey Passa will move into the Finance Director position. Ryan has many, many years of accounting experience in private accounting. He thought he could best serve the city by using the skills as an accountant as opposed to the Finance Director, said City Administrator Corky Reynolds. Audrey was recently hired as our accountant, and when Ryan made this request for transfer, he indicated he was familiar with Audrey, and he thought she could do the job. I asked the council to approve the change, and they did.

DOWNTOWN CORRIDOR DESIGN CONTRACT WITH MNDOT
The City of Crookston and the Minnesota Department of Transportation will contract with the same design consultant for the MnDOT downtown corridor study. Often times MnDOT will get their own designer, local entities will get their own designer for the roads, said Reynolds. MnDOT approached us about getting one request for proposals for all of the design and splitting out the costs in proportion to the percentage the designer would do for each entity, and the council said yes.

AIRPORT ZONING BOARD, AIRPORT LAND ZONING, MNDOT GRANT AGREEMENT
The council approved the creation of a Joint Airport Zoning Board (including the City of Crookston, Polk County, along with Lowell and Parnell townships) to zone areas surrounding the airport all so they can relocate the Crookston Municipal Airport Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS) and they will get a grant from the Minnesota Department of Transportation with the City paying 30 percent of the cost and the state paying 70 percent. We are getting a new Automated Weather Observation System, and in order to move the site, which is unacceptable now due to new regulations, we have to zone some land by the airport, said Reynolds. We have to rezone to get the participation of the townships, and we had to create a board to do so.

103 NELSON STREET NORTH RAZING
The council voted unanimously to give the resident of 103 Nelson Street North 30 days to make repairs to the property or move out of the house after the City has deemed the house uninhabitable. The home has a hole in one of the walls and a foundation wall gone. There has been no water for two years at the house. The council had some very good questions and said we will give you 30 days to make moves so you can find a place to live with suggestions of contacting Tri-Valley and to keep us informed because the City wants to raze the building, said Reynolds. There were depictions of a foundation wall completely gone, a floor tipping and tilting, and above the floor, the foundation is completely gone. This was difficult for the council because they didnt want this woman to be homeless, but on the other hand, what responsibility does the city bare if she continues to live in this and something we dont want to happen happens.

CONSENT AGENDA
The council approved the bills and disbursements of $297,259.33, and a tobacco license renewal for Superpumper.

KROX will have news from the Ways and Means committee meeting on Wednesday.

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The Crookston School Board met on Monday evening at the Crookston High School Choir and Orchestra room.

The meeting started with presentations on the Math Masters program from Highland School Chris Trostad, and Superintendent Dave Kuehn gave the board information on the World’s Best Workforce. They have three areas that they would like to see move forward in the district, said Superintendent Dave Kuehn.Doing interventions, family and student engagement, and the third was providing more opportunities for grades 9-12. One item was suggested, and the board members gave their support to a parent advisory board to get input from the district parents of all the schools.”

CHANGE TO THE 2023-24 SCHOOL DISTRICT CALENDAR-
The board approved two changes to the 2023-24 district school calendar. They voted to make two changes. The first change was to have the sixth and eighth-grade students start a day before the 9-12th graders to give them time to assimilate to the new middle school remodel. We are looking to make it a middle school day and have our sixth through eighth-grade students there and have the ninth through 12th graders start a day later to give them a chance to be in the building and walk around without all the other students, said Superintendent Kuehn. We thought it was a way to start a new middle school format the right way.

The second change to the calendar is two early release days. One on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and before Easter break. We want to get in some additional professional development for our teachers, said Superintendent Kuehn. We are doing a lot on our other professional development days with our LETRS training and Literacy training, along with other areas like diversity and equity training. So those are the two changes to the calendar. All teachers in pre-school through fifth grade have voluntarily signed up to take the LETRS training.

NEW AIR EXCHANGER FOR THE WOODS SHOP AT THE HIGH SCHOOL
The Crookston School District called for bids on a new air handling unit for the wood shop class at the high school. Three companies bid, and Vilandre of Grand Forks, ND, came in with the lowest bid at $109,000. The woods classroom has a pretty sophisticated and heavy-duty air handling system, and it is shot, so in order to have kids in there and have a safe learning atmosphere, we need to replace the unit, said Superintendent Kuehn. This will fall under our long-term facility maintenance dollars, so we have money in that account to replace it. It is a big-ticket item, and the board approved it.

MISCELLANEOUS-
The board called for bread and milk bids for the 2023-24 school year. They approved membership with the Minnesota State High School League and the LETRS agreement with teachers. All the preschool through fifth-grade teachers have signed up to participate in the LETRS training. The summer programs were approved, which included marching band practice, orchestra practice in the summer, and credit recovery summer school in June for 9-12th graders. The final main agenda item was a resolution to reinstate two teaching positions. The combination of a grant and a teacher resignation allows the district to offer the jobs to two of the teachers they cut from Highland School. The board approved the resolution.

CONSENT AGENDA
The consent agenda included the acceptance or retirement letters from LaDonna Peterson as part-time physical education instructor at Highland School and Greg Garmen as Assistant Principal at Crookston High School. The acceptance of resignation letters from Gabrielle Foede as choir instructor and Nicholle Fredrick as a paraprofessional at Highland School. The consent agenda also included the reduction of an Instructional Assistant position at Washington School and the employment of Kelsey Grunewald as payroll accountant for the district, Wyatt Ecklund as a special ed instructor at the high school, and Emily Scheresky as Food Service Director.

DONATIONS-
The board voted to approve seven donations totaling $21,131. The donations included $2,606 to the FFA from the Crookston Masonic Lodge, $2,606 to the FFA from the Minnesota Chapter of the Masonic Lodge, and the FFA also received a $500 donation from Farmers Elevator of Eldred. The board also accepted $2,500 from Nicholas Proulx for the multi-use sports complex, $1,000 from the Area 1 Envirothon of Minnesota for the Envirothon team, $11,000 towards Crookston High School scholarships from the June Shaver Endowment, and $919 to the Pirate Boys Golf team from the Crookston Pirate Boosters. We are very thankful to all the people that give donations to the district, and it comes in a lot of different ways and from different entities, said Superintendent Kuehn.

POLK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT TRUANCY REPORT-
Polk County Commissioner Gary Wilhite handed out the Polk County School District truancy report to the board. He also took some questions from the board. You can see the report over the past four years below.

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