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This Week Is World Breastfeeding Week

Polk-Norman-Mahnomen Community Health Services (CHS) is celebrating Minnesota Breastfeeding Awareness Month in August and World Breastfeeding Week, August 1-7.  This year’s theme focuses on “Breastfeeding: Foundation of Life.”  The week helps raise awareness of the importance of breastfeeding for promoting healthy babies, mothers, and communities and calls attention to local efforts that support breastfeeding. According […]

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CROOKSTON FIRE AND POLICE HOLD ANNUAL BREAKFAST

The Crookston Fire Department and Police Departments team up to serve the community a pancake breakfast on the Friday morning of Ox Cart Days.  They usually get close to 1,000 or more people that attend the free-will breakfast.  This year was more of the same with a steady stream of people over the four hours

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HEALTHY HOMES ASSESSMENT AVAILABLE IN THE AREA

The Polk, Norman and Mahnomen County Public Health offices offer free Healthy Home Assessments and Environmental Intervention services.  The assessment is free of charge regardless of income and it was started with the Minnesota Department of Health and Housing and Urban Development to look at families that had children with asthma to see if they

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Deer Hunting License’s Available today

Licenses available August 1; deadline to apply for antlerless permits is September 6. Additional deer hunting opportunities will be available this fall because numbers continue to rebound across the state and now many areas have populations at or above goal levels, according to the Department of Natural Resources. “Deer populations have responded well to favorable

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NORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK OFFERS FREE SWEET CORN

On Friday, August 17, North Country Food Bank will be conducting the Great Corn Giveaway simultaneously in East Grand Forks and Crookston.  The public is welcome to stop by and pick up delicious sweet corn at the Hardware Hank parking lots in East Grand Forks and Crookston between Noon and 6:00 p.m. on Friday.  Volunteers

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OX CART DAYS TO BE BIGGER THAN EVER IN 2018

The Ox Cart Days Festival is two weeks away and with 85 events and activities scheduled, there will be something for everyone.  The Ox Cart Days Committee Chairperson, Nell DeBoer said this will be the biggest festival the town has seen with events starting on Tuesday and running through Sunday evening.  There will be over

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