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UMC Club Hockey has three named to All-Region team

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The University of Minnesota Crookston Golden Eagle Club Hockey team had three players named to the ACHA’s Central All-Region Team.

Mason Romfo (Fr., F, Langdon) and Alexander Bailey (Jr., Crosby, N.D.) were named to the Central Region First team. Anthony Foster (Soph. Warroad) was named to the Central Region third team.

Romfo, who led the Golden Eagles in scoring and was tied for second in the ACHA, finished the year with 30 goals and 66 points. In Regionals, Romfo had one goal and four points in the three games played.

Bailey, who was fourth in the ACHA with points by a defenseman with 39 and second in the Central.

Foster, who was second on the Golden Eagles in points with 54, finished as the 15th highest scorer in the ACHA. Foster has now scored 106 points in just 58 games played as a Golden Eagle.

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Jessica Morberg named RiverView Health EOM for December 2024

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Jessica Morberg is literally a lifesaver. She was recently recognized for her intuition and heroics when honored with RiverView Health’s December 2024 Employee of the Month award.

Morberg is an RN in the Emergency Department. In her five years with RiverView, she’s also worked on the Inpatient Unit.

A McIntosh native, she enjoys spending time at home with her family and dog, Gus.

“I am very grateful for this nomination,’’ she shared of being Employee of the Month. “I appreciate all of my amazing coworkers. They are a big part of why I like working at RiverView.’’

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Crookston High School FFA to hold outreach and fundraiser event on March 13

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The Crookston FFA invites the community to its outreach night and fundraiser on Thursday, March 13, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Crookston Eagles.

Burger baskets and pie will be served.  No tickets are needed, but free-will donations are appreciated.  A silent auction will include student projects and donations from community businesses. “It’s not an expensive event to come to. You give what you can,” said Kevin Capistran. “We want to get to the point where we don’t say congratulations, you made it to a state contest. Now we need money from you. We are trying as an organization to get it where the students can go on these trips, because they earned them, cost-free for them.”  Last year, Crookston sent around 40 kids to the state convention, and this year, they will be sending the same amount of kids to the state.

At 6:00 p.m. Crookston FFA members will perform opening ceremonies and recite the FFA creed.  FFA teams will have booths set up to share information about the Career and Leadership Development Events they are competing in this year.  There will be hands-on activities and attendees can test their knowledge on FFA contest questions. “It will be an event where you can learn more about FFA so we can encourage all the community to come on out to see the teams that are going to state and all the different areas that they participate in their Career and Development events,” said Kevin Capistran. “Each one will have a table set up around the room, and you can learn about the areas in which the FFA students are working and interact with them.”

 Everyone is invited to come to Crookston FFA Night to learn more about FFA and help support members as they prepare for their trip to the Minnesota FFA State Convention in April.  “Our community is relatively new to FFA. We had it back in the 70s and 80s, and we lost it for a while, but we only got it back in 2020. So we are maybe at the point of not everybody in the community knows what FFA is,” said Capistran. “This would be a great opportunity to come have a burger and a piece of pie and find out what it is all about.”

If you have kids in elementary school, bring them by to learn more about FFA. “If you’re a parent of a fifth, sixth, seventh grade come and see what opportunity is coming down the pike in a year or two,” said Capistran. “As soon as those kids get into junior high, they have the chance to take those ag classes and be part of FFA.”

Again, the Crookston FFA outreach night and fundraiser will be on Thursday, March 13, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Crookston Eagles.

For more information, contact crookstonFFAalumni@gmail.com

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Polk County opens new Family Resource Center at Washington School

Polk County has opened a new Family Resource Center in Crookston, now inside of Washington School. This marks the fourth site around the county that has now been opened, the second one in Crookston.

Family Resource Centers are designed to provide a welcoming environment for families to come into with any potential needs that could arise, from hygiene and diapers to forms and housing. “Whether it’s filling out forms, or looking for connections in the community, a service provider, housing, daycare, it’s really just a place for parents and children to feel connected,” says Victoria Ramirez, a representative for Polk County who led the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The Family Resource Center also offers a play area that serves as a way for both children and parents to make connections and build support systems, and even have an artist from Crookston High School designing a mural on the wall. Ramirez also expressed how excited she was to get the site inside of Washington School. “It’s already a family-friendly center of the community, and we already have preschoolers here and a playground, so it’s just what we needed, a family-friendly space.”

This is the fourth site that Polk County has opened, with one at the Crookston Library, one in East Grand Forks, and one in Fertile, with a new site in Fosston opening within the month.

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U.S. Secret Service shoots armed man located near White House

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The U.S. Secret Service shot an adult male near the White House in Washington, D.C., shortly after midnight on Sunday who brandished a firearm leading to an “armed confrontation” with law enforcement.  The encounter happened near the intersection of 17th and F Streets near the northwest corner of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House.

The agency said that local police had reported on Saturday that a “suicidal individual” possibly traveling to D.C. from Indiana. Secret Service personnel later located the individual’s vehicle parked near the intersection an intersection on the western perimeter of the White House, and the man who matched the description was found on foot about a block north on foot.

The agency’s spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement: “Secret Service personnel were involved in a shooting following an armed encounter with a person of interest shortly after midnight on March 9 at 17th and G Streets NW. Media staging area will be at 17th and Pennsylvania. As officers approached, the individual brandished a firearm, and an armed confrontation ensued, during which shots were fired by our personnel.”

The Secret Service said the man was taken to a local hospital and his condition is unknown, adding that no injuries were reported among Secret Service personnel, and that the incident was under investigation. President Trump was not at the White House at the time, as he is visiting his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. The man’s motivation for traveling to Washington are not currently known.

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8 injured after driver plows vehicle into CarMax dealership in Southern California

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At least eight people were injured Saturday after a customer plowed their vehicle into a CarMax store in Inglewood, California (located about 10 miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles). Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesperson Jonathan Torres said that two people were critically hurt at the dealership, while the other six had minor injuries.

Police were dispatched to the store on the 8600 block of S. La Cienega Boulevard at around 2:03 p.m. local time, after a customer exited the building, entered a vehicle and drove into the business.  Per the Inglewood Police Department, the incident is being investigated as an intentional act, with police noting that a “business dispute” may have been the driver’s motive.

Video of the crash circulating on social media shows a silver Subaru SUV backing into the business via a doorway before the vehicle pivoted in a lobby area and drove out of the opposite end of the building. Police say the unidentified driver left the store following the crash and turned himself in to the Los Angeles Police Department at a police academy on Manchester Avenue. He was arrested and is being detained. The suspect faces multiple counts, including assault with a deadly weapon.

In a statement, CarMax said the suspect was a customer who was having his vehicle appraised: “The safety of our associates, community and customers is our top priority. We are deeply saddened by this event and our hearts go out to everyone impacted. We appreciate the authorities’ swift response to this terrible event.” The company said it has ‘a plan of action in place’ and is “working with the authorities on the investigation.”

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See Ellen Pompeo in the trailer for Hulu’s ‘Good American Family’

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Hulu dropped a trailer for Good American Family, a series inspired by the stories surrounding the real-life adoption of Natalia Grace.

Ellen Pompeo portrays Kristine Barnett, who is eager to adopt seven-year-old Grace (Imogen Faith Reid), who has dwarfism. She and Michael Barnett (Mark Duplass) adopt Grace, but Kristine ultimately becomes suspicious about their new daughter’s true identity.

An official series synopsis reads: “As they defend their family from the daughter they’ve grown to believe is a threat, she fights her own battle to confront her past and what her future holds, in a showdown that ultimately plays out in the tabloids and the courtroom.”

The first pair of episodes premiere March 19; see the trailer for Good American Family: HERE.

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Amanda Seyfried stars in trailer for Peacock’s limited series ‘Long Bright River’

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Peacock has released the official trailer for Long Bright River, its upcoming suspense thriller series based on Liz Moore’s bestselling novel.

Amanda Seyfried stars as Mickey, a Philly cop on patrol in ain Kensington, Philadelphia neighborhood hit hard by the opioid crisis who searches for her sister, an addict who has gone missing. Seyfried learns three were women were killed in a short time span, and she makes it her personal mission to keep her city safe and find her sister, Kacey (Ashleigh Cummings), who has “been gone for too long this time.”

A voiceover is heard in the trailer: “Over the past several days, three females have been found dead. There’s a killer on the loose, Mickey. I’m worried about you.”  Seyfried says in the trailer: “I grew up here, went to elementary school down the street. And so did a lot of the girls working the avenue today.”

The eight-episode series launches March 13 on Peacock, and also stars Callum Vinson, John Doman, Dash Mihok, Britne Oldford, Matthew Del Negro, Harriet Sansom Harris, Patch Darragh and Perry Mattfeld,

See the trailer Long Bright River: HERE.

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ARREST/FIRE REPORT MARCH 10

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The Northwest Regional Corrections Center reported the arrest of the following–

Dennis Eugene Gagnon Jr, 44 of Fosston, for DUI

Jacob Roger Fjeld, 44 of Fertile, for DUI, refusal to submit to a chemical test

Joseph Emmit Primeau, 46 of Halstad, DUI and driving after cancelation.

Ronnie Lopez Maldonado, 38 of Grand Forks, for theft – take/use/transfer of a movable prop without consent.

Jim Thomas Scheef, 45 of Fisher, for DUI

Cassie Alexis Lopez, 22 of East Grand Forks, for fifth degree assault

Scott David Mondry, 61 of Halstad, for DUI and refusal to submit to a chemical test

Hilario Rincon, 49 of East Grand Forks, for domestic abuse no contact order and violation of a contact order.

Tyler Leslie Tronnes, 39 of Shelly for driving after cancelation.

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ARREST/FIRE REPORT MARCH 10

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The Northwest Regional Corrections Center reported the arrest of the following–

Dennis Eugene Gagnon Jr, 44 of Fosston, for DUI

Jacob Roger Fjeld, 44 of Fertile, for DUI, refusal to submit to a chemical test

Joseph Emmit Primeau, 46 of Halstad, DUI and driving after cancelation.

Ronnie Lopez Maldonado, 38 of Grand Forks, for theft – take/use/transfer of a movable prop without consent.

Jim Thomas Scheef, 45 of Fisher, for DUI

Cassie Alexis Lopez, 22 of East Grand Forks, for fifth degree assault

Scott David Mondry, 61 of Halstad, for DUI and refusal to submit to a chemical test

Hilario Rincon, 49 of East Grand Forks, for domestic abuse no contact order and violation of a contact order.

Tyler Leslie Tronnes, 39 of Shelly for driving after cancelation.

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