Regular season free throw percentage award – Grace Boll (74.5 percent – with a minimum of 30 attempts) Regular season rebound award – Chloe Boll (201) Regular season assist award – Chloe Boll (72) Carla Johnson Most Dedicated – Joey Nesseth
Academic All-State – Joey Nesseth All Northwest Conference First Team – Chloe Boll and Grace Boll All Northwest Conference Honorable Mention – Madi Bruggeman and Joey Nesseth
The 30th Annual Crookston Firefighters Fun Night Fundraiser is just around the corner. Kolton Walker and Cole Ricard stopped by KROX Monday to fill everyone in on the event.“This year will be our 30th Annual Fun Night and we will host it at the Eagles Club in Crookston on Saturday, April 5,” says Walker. “We will be having social hour at 5:00 p.m. with a meal following at 6:00 p.m. The meal is $30 and we will have Prime Rib and/or Walleye.”During social hour and dinner, says Walker there are some other things going on as well. “During this time we will also be playing games, and giving away multiple prizes,” says Walker. “So, it will be a great time with that as well.”There is live entertainment for the evening following the meal. “We will have a band after,” says Walker. “And that will be 32 Below. If you wish to not participate in the meal, it’s a $10 cover charge which helps us with cost and that type of thing.”
All funds that are raised during the Annual Fun Night are utilized by the fire department for things they need to continue doing what they do best in the safest way possible for both themselves and the community. “We will put it in our general fund for now. What we will use it for is to help equip a firefighter as far as helmet, air tank, mask, gloves, and bunker gear,” says Walker. “All of that costs in excess of $15,000 and its real dollars.”The general fund also serves as a place to save for the inevitable. “A time will come where we will have to purchase a different fire truck and upwards of $1 Million dollars isn’t far from the truth these days,” says Walker. “It’s real dollars we have to look at.”
Whether you have been going to the Annual Fun Night Fundraiser for years or you are planning to go for the first time, tickets are available for purchase so make sure you get yours soon. “You can get those by contacting a firefighter or please call the fire hall directly at 218-281-4584 and the full-time staff will be able to get you a ticket,” says Walker. “We do please ask that you purchase these as soon as possible so we can get an accurate meal count.”For just $30 you can have a fabulous dinner, dance to a live band and support those who make their living supporting Crookston and the safety of its residents. Get your tickets now and support the Crookston Firefighters Fun Night Fundraiser, Saturday, April 5, 2025.
Downtown snow removal will take place in Crookston on all North/South and East/West streets beginning at 11:00 p.m. tonight March 25.Snow removal will take place barring unforeseen heavy snowfall or other emergency. Vehicles parked on Main and Broadway may be towed if not moved.
Early Childhood Family Education’s (ECFE) March Musical Madness was held Monday night at Highland Elementary. A children’s interactive concert was performed by 5th grade orchestra students and Pop Strings under the direction of Crookston Public Schools Orchestra Director Lori Carlson. Children experienced the sights and sounds of orchestra instruments as well as participated in sing-a-longs, rhythm, and movement activities. Following the concert, ECFE children and families were able to make a homemade rainbow shaker instrument to take home. Exposing children to music at a young age ignites all areas of development, including intellectual, social emotional, motor, language and overall literacy. In addition to development, music also brings us joy!
Jerry Niles Peterson, 85, passed away on March 20, 2025.
Jerry was born in Crookston, MN to Evelyn L Lindberg and Nels P. Peterson on March 9, 1940. Jerry graduated from Crookston Central High School in 1958 before starting a career that spanned many interests. Jerry worked in various construction jobs throughout northern Minnesota. In the 1960s, he worked in aircraft manufacturing in California, then worked in Warroad, MN at Marvins Windows. Jerry worked on Beet Pilers at the American Crystal Sugar plant and also worked for local farmers in Polk County. Jerry was truly a man of many varied talents and interests.
Jerry enjoyed hunting and fishing and always was an avid outdoorsman.When Jerry was in grade school he caught a big catfish in Red Lake River that was as big as he was! The local newspaper was so impressed they even published an article about it. Jerry loved archery, and as a child, he even placed second in the men’s bowmen class at the Northern Bowmen’s League at Thief River Falls. He especially loved attending the Rendevouz primative reenactments. Jerry was famous for his horse and his rooster impressions. The kids that heard those impressions loved them.
Jerry’s nieces and nephews remember Jerry very fondly. Memories of Jerry include fishing, drive in movies, and shooting off firecrackers in his mom’s basement. Whenever a romantic scene would happen in a movie, Jerry could be heard commenting, “Mush, much, and Oatmeal!” Also, Jerry told one of his nieces that broccoli will give you splinters.
Jerry is preceded in death by his parents, Nels and Evelyn Peterson, and his sister, Myrna Andrews.
Jerry is survived by his sister, Gayle Greer (Tom); brother-in-law, Paul Andrews; 7 nieces and nephews; several great-nieces and nephews; 1 great-great nephew, and several cousins.
Jerry’s family would like to give a heartfelt thank you to the staff and nurses at Bethany Nursing Home South University Campus in Fargo, especially Willow Lane on 3rd floor. The staff are some of the kindest, and most caring people ever. The family cannot begin to thank them enough for the care they gave to Jerry.
Jerry’s family will honor his memory with a service from the graveside at Oakdale Cemetery at a later date.
Patricia “Patty” Louise Shepersky, age 82, of Park Rapids, MN, passed away at her home on Monday, March 17, 2025. A memorial service will be at 11:00 am on Saturday, March 29, 2025, at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Park Rapids. At visitation will be from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm on Friday, March 28. 2025, at the church, and will continue an hour prior to the memorial service on Saturday. Jones Pearson Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.
Patty was born on November 30, 1942, to Albert and Mary (Paul) Degelder in Drayton, ND. She graduated from Sacred Heart Catholic School in East Grand Forks. She went on to work as a school bus driver for the Crookston School district. She also worked on the family farm and as a greeter at Walmart. Patty was united in marriage to Spencer Larson on November 21, 1961. The couple settled in Euclid, MN. After Spencer’s passing in 1992, she would enter her second marriage to John Shepersky on November 11, 1989.
Patty was a member of St Peter the Apostles Catholic Church. She enjoyed baking for all her neighbors and had a passion for farming and gardening.
She is survived by her husband, John; children: Brenda (Ed) Shepersky, Spencer (Nancy) Larson Jr., Joel (Denette) Larson, and Mary Pat (Paul) Peterson; step-children: Linda (John) Rohloff, Debbie (Erik) Montzka, and Connie (Terry) Harsha; siblings: Carol (Bill) Hoverson, Jane Taylor, Barbara (Dave) Roden, Mary (Dave) Kokenge, Art (Kathy) Degelder, and Oscar Degelder; 25 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her husbands, Spencer; a son, David; stepsons, Doug and Randy; grandsons, Kyle and Shawn.
Marilyn A. Hasler, Fertile, MN, passed away, at age 76, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at Fair Meadow Nursing Home in Fertile, MN.
Marilyn Ann (Olson) Hasler was born July 22 in Valley City, ND to Pearl (Regner) and Arthur Olson. Marilyn’s early years were spent in Marion, ND where she attended elementary school. In 1960 Pearl married Ronald Seefeldt of Grand Rapids, ND. Marilyn attended and graduated from LaMoure HS in 1966. That summer she attended Valley City State College, graduating three years later with a major in biology and a math minor. She taught biology in Huron, SD 1969-1970 and married Dennis Hasler on June 26, 1970. She taught junior high math and science in Edgeley, ND 1970-1971.
In 1971 Marilyn and Dennis moved to Fertile, MN. They were blessed with three children, Ethan (1972), Kristen (1976) and Zachary (1978). After all three children were in school, Marilyn did some substitute teaching. She also worked in season at a tax office and was briefly the city librarian. Marilyn developed a deep interest in antiques and had an eagle eye for high-quality pieces at a bargain price. For several years she had an antique shop with a local shop owner.
Marilyn was a gifted craftswoman, working wonders with a sewing machine and hand stitching. She also crocheted, knit, did hardanger, wheat weaving, and basket weaving. She was active in Concordia Lutheran Church teaching Sunday school, vacation bible school, singing in the choir, working in the altar guild, and was active in women’s bible study and prayer groups. Although afflicted with four major illnesses, three of them incurable, her strong Christian faith, the most important thing in her life, gave her the strength to live with grace and dignity. She was preceded in death by her parents, Pearl and Arthur; and brother, Darrell Seefeldt. She is survived by her husband, Dennis; children, Ethan (Wendie) Hasler of East Grand Forks, MN; Kristen (Jimmy) of Los Angeles, CA, and Zachary of Fargo, ND; sisters, Jane (Ken) Aller of Naples, FL, and Lisa (Jim) Zalusky of Mapleton, ND; brother, Chad Seefeldt of Grand Rapids, ND; grandchildren, Noah and Quindelynne; nieces, Tara and Melissa; and nephews, Travis and Christopher.
A private family service will be held at Hope Evangelical Free Church in Fertile, MN. Inurnment will be conducted at a later date. It is preferred that any memorials go to Breakthrough T1D (formerly known as Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.)
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday for an emergency stay of a district court judge’s decision that 16,000 federal probationary employees terminated in February across six agencies and departments be immediately reinstated.
Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris filed an application Monday to “stay the injunction” issued by U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California that had ordered the Trump administration on March 13 to “”immediately offer reinstatement to any and all probationary employees terminated on or about February 13th and 14th 2025.” Alsup’s order earlier this month required six agencies — the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior and Treasury — to reinstate probationary workers fired last month. Alsup’s order covered federal workers who were still in probationary status, or those generally in a one- or two-year trial period. The judge said the terminations were likely unlawful because the Office of Personnel Management did not have the authority to direct the firings.
Harris argued in the filing that the labor unions and nonprofit groups that challenged the mass firings lack standing, saying they have “hijacked the employment relationship between the federal government and its workforce,” claiming the judge’s order also violates separation of powers. Harris wrote: “This Court should not allow a single district court to erase Congress’s handiwork and seize control over reviewing federal personnel decisions — much less do so by vastly exceeding the limits on the scope of its equitable authority and ordering reinstatements en masse.”
Harris urged the high court to “end the interbranch power grab … Those orders have sown chaos as the Executive Branch scrambles to meet immediate compliance deadlines by sending huge sums of government money out the door, reinstating thousands of lawfully terminated workers, undoing steps to restructure Executive Branch agencies, and more. The lower courts should not be allowed to transform themselves into all-purpose overseers of Executive Branch hiring, firing, contracting, and policymaking.”
The firings of probationary workers is being undertaken by the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). More than 24,000 probationary workers were removed from their positions as part of the mass firings, involving 18 agencies.
A federal judge on Monday kept his block on deportation flights of alleged members of Venezuela’s crime gang Tren de Araragua under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
In a 37-page ruling, Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C., wrote that Venezuelans whom the Trump administration wants to deport under the act should get a hearing on whether they are gang members. Boasberg wrote in his ruling: “The Court need not resolve the thorny question of whether the judiciary has the authority to assess this claim in the first place. That is because Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on another equally fundamental theory: Before they may be deported, they are entitled to individualized hearings to determine whether the Act applies to them at all.”
Boasberg said use of the Alien Enemies Act “implicates a host of complicated legal issues” adding: “Federal courts are equipped to adjudicate that question when individuals threatened with detention and removal challenge their designation as such. Because the named Plaintiffs dispute that they are members of Tren de Aragua, they may not be deported until a court has been able to decide the merits of their challenge.”
Judge Boasberg was appointed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by President George W. Bush in 2002 and elevated to the District Court in 2001 by President Barack Obama. Pres. Trump blasted the judge, writing on Truth Social: “This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President – He didn’t WIN the popular VOTE (by a lot!), he didn’t WIN ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, he didn’t WIN 2,750 to 525 Counties, HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE, BUT FIGHTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MAY HAVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE REASON FOR THIS HISTORIC VICTORY. I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do. This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!! WE DON’T WANT VICIOUS, VIOLENT, AND DEMENTED CRIMINALS, MANY OF THEM DERANGED MURDERERS, IN OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
The Justice Administration believes it has authority under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act because they are a “hybrid criminal state” invading the United States though it has been only invoked in times of declared war against other countries. DOJ lawyers have argued in court filings that “The President’s action is lawful and based upon a long history of using war authorities against organizations connected to foreign states and national security judgments, which are not subject to judicial second guessing.”
An three-member appeals court heard oral arguments later on Monday on whether the lower court can hear and address the Trump administration’s deportation of migrants under an 18th-century wartime law, but did not issue a ruling. The three-judge panel consists of Judges Karen Henderson, Patricia Millett and Justin Walker — two of whom were appointed by a Republican president. The panel declined a bid from the Trump administration to immediately remove Judge James Boasberg from the case and lift a temporary restraining order on the deportations.
The Jared Hess-directed film has an all-star cast, featuring Jack Black as Steve, Jason Momoa as Garett, and Emma Myers as Natalie, with Danielle Brooks, Jennifer Coolidge and Sebastian Hansen also starring as people “who learn to create anything they desire out of blocks in the Overworld. But, they discover the Nether, where evil creatures do the same.”
After backlash from the first teaser trailer which featured more live-action content, the new trailer for A Minecraft Movie features more CGI characters, and teases the potential challenges the characters will face during their stay in the Overworld – addressing the movie’s close ties to the Minecraft video game by positioning the main gang as players within the game’s environment.
A Minecraft Movie opens April 4 in theaters; See the trailer – HERE.
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