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Motorists traveling on Minnesota highways this fall need to be aware of large, slow-moving farm equipment transporting crops to markets, grain elevators, and processing plants. Farm equipment is large and heavy, making it hard for operators to accelerate, slow down, and stop. The machines also make wide turns and sometimes cross over the centerline. They […]
On Thursday, August 19 at 8:08 a.m. the Polk County Sheriff’s Office responded to a Dump truck overturned in the north ditch off CR 73 just east of US 2 in rural East Grand Forks. 44-year-old Efrain Ramirez of Hatton, ND was the sole occupant and driver of the 2007 Sterling dump truck. Ramirez was
On Friday, August 14 at approximately 9:05 a.m., the Polk County Sheriff’s Office responded to a property damage traffic accident that involved a BSNF train and a semi dump truck. The nearest intersection was 290th Ave SW and 260th St. SW in Rural Crookston MN. Deputies arrived and were able to determine that the train
Melanie Lessard submitted a thank you message to the Crookston High School Class of 2020, and the people who made Friday’s parade possible. For photos and a video of the parade click here. The message from Lessard is below – I would like to express my sincere thank you for all of you out there
Fire Calls At 8:20 Monday evening, the Crookston Police Department informed the Crookston Fire Department that there was smoke coming from a burning barrel on the 500 block of Marin Avenue. Firefighters investigated, extinguished the embers, then contacted the owner about city ordinances forbidding that type of burning activity. Just after 1:00 Tuesday morning, they
The Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Minnesota State Patrol has enacted a road closure on Highway 220 north of Hwy 1 near Oslo due to water over the road. The road closure also includes Highway 317 to the North Dakota border. The highways will remain closed until further notice and traffic should seek alternate
