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The Polk County Commissioners on Tuesday morning were asked to consider a local option sales tax and wheelage tax to make up an anticipated deficit in County State Aid Highway (CSAH) funding. None of the commissioners made a motion to approve either the .25 percent local option sales tax or the wheelage tax. Commissioner Gerald […]
On Tuesday, August 25 the Polk County Sheriff’s Office received information about a website teenagers have been using called omegle.com. It is reported that children learned about this site through the Tik Tok app. Investigators looked into the site and found that it is a chat and video chat format where you do not need
The Minnesota Department of Health is reporting eight deaths and 414 new cases of COVID-19 today. The new cases come from just 8,858 tests for a positive rate of 4.7 percent. There was one new case in Polk County bringing the county’s total cases to 180 since the pandemic began. Updated August 25, 2020 Updated
The Northwest Regional Corrections Center announced the arrests of the following individuals: Joseph James LaFrance, 24 of Crookston, for felony 5th-degree possession, procurement, or control of a controlled substance. Patrick Michael Denny, 48 of Red Lake Falls, for felony 5th-degree sale of marijuana mixture with no remuneration. Timothy Michael Myers, 52 of Fargo, ND, for
The Crookston Ways & Means Committee on Monday night discussed potentially moving fall clean-up week up to late September before settling on continuing to plan to hold in the last week of October as in years passed. Public Works Director Pat Kelly told the committee that a lot of residents use fall clean-up week to
The Crookston City Council met on Monday night, where the City Council voted 5-2 to move the Crookston Visitor’s Bureau under the Crookston Housing and Economic Development Authority (CHEDA) temporarily. However, Mayor Dale Stainbrook vetoed the resolution. The veto was one of the first used in recent memory by a Crookston Mayor. Following the mayor’s
