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UMC inducts 5 into the Hall of Fame and honors 2 oustanding alumni

Seven individuals were honored by the University of Minnesota Crookston during Homecoming 2025 as this year’s alumni award winners and athletic hall of fame inductees. Tim Dufault 1980 and Rose (Iraci) Ulseth 1987 were recognized with the Outstanding Alumni Award, Chelsea Wiesner, DO 2014 received the Abbey [Promise] Award, and Karna (Plaine) Nixon 2006 (women’s […]

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CROOKSTON HIGH SCHOOL GRAD KIRK RONGEN DIES IN AN AVALANCHE IN IDAHO

Crookston High School graduate, Kirk Rongen, was killed in an avalanche on Wednesday, January 15, while snowmobiling in Sawtooth National Forest in the Baker Creek drainage approximately a half-mile northeast of Baker Lake, Idaho. Rongen was one of two snowmobilers caught in the avalanche near an elevation of 9,000 feet. One of the riders escaped

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