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SEVERE WEATHER AWARENESS WEEK- THURSDAY: TORNADOS AND STATEWIDE TORNADO DRILLS

The Severe Weather Awareness Week Topic for Thursday is Tornados and Tornado Drill Day with Crookston Firefighter Garrett Bengston. Tornados are nature’s most intense violent storms. Minnesota averages about 40 tornadoes per year, although, in 2021, the state had 64 tornados, including 22 tornados on December 15th alone. Tornados strike quickly and with little warning […]

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FUNDRAISER FOR THE JACKSON SEIBEL FAMILY WILL BE HELD JUNE 8 AT THE CROOKSTON INN

A spaghetti feed and silent auction fundraiser will be held for Jackson Seibel, son of Jess and Garett Bengston on Tuesday, June 8 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Crookston Inn. Seibel, a 2018 Crookston High School graduate, is undergoing intense treatment to fight a relapse of Hodgkins Lymphoma.  Jackson was first diagnosed in

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CROOKSTON FIREFIGHTER’S HOST DRIVE-THRU PANCAKE BREAKFAST

The annual pancake breakfast at the Crookston Fire Department’s main station had a different feel as people picked up their pancakes and sausage to go Friday morning.  Even with the changes, firefighter Garrett Bengston said it was pretty steady all morning. “I feel it was a very big success for being the inaugural year of

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SALVATION ARMY BELL RINGERS BUSY IN CROOKSTON

Volunteer bell ringers for the Salvation Army were out in Crookston this week.  Bell ringers included Garrett Bengston and Eli Sullivan from the Crookston Fire Department, and Cameron and Benjamin Halos from the University of Minnesota Crookston’s Delta Theta Sigma fraternity.

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Community Pitching In To Help Jackson Seibel and Family

The Crookston quickly began to rally around the family of Jackson Seibel as news of his diagnosis spread throughout the community.  Seibel, a 2018 graduate from Crookston High School and the son of Jess and Garrett Bengston, was diagnosed with Stage 2 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma earlier this month and quickly began to undergo chemotherapy treatment. While

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