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There will be six contestants competing for the title of Miss Crookston 2020 on Friday, August 21 at the Crookston High School gymnasium. The six contestants are Emma Boll, Savanah Meine, Emily Funk, Victoria Proulx, Shelby Aamot, and Linnea French. Emma Boll is the daughter of Melissa and Brian and will play the piano and […]
Crookston’s Cody Brekken is the commander of the North Dakota National Guard’s Charlie Battery out of Fargo, N.D. On July 27, Brekken and the members of Charlie Battery were presented with the 2019 Alexander Hamilton Award presented annually by the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery branch to the battery that demonstrated exceptional achievement and mission
Last week, the University of Minnesota Crookston, received a $100,000, one-year grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) agency to fund the Mano Amiga program of the Veden Center for Rural Economic Development. The Vedan Center works to increase employment and entrepreneurship opportunities among the growing Latino community in Crookston
The Minnesota Department of Health is reporting 629 new cases of COVID-19 and nine deaths. Polk County has three new cases for 139 total since the start of the pandemic. There have been 57,779 cases (4,927 active) of COVID-19 in Minnesota, 6,569 of which have been health care workers from 1,090,303 completed tests. There have
KROX Radio’s Chris Fee sat down with Crookston School District Superintendent Jeremy Olson and Polk County Public Health Director Sarah Reese to discuss how the school district and Polk County Public Health are working together to make the best decisions for the students for the upcoming school year. The interview is below –
In late June, Governor Tim Walz authorized $600 million in aid to local governments impacted by COVID-19 from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Polk County received $3,985,249 in funding. Polk County Administrator Chuck Whiting said the County Board will need to figure out how to use its funding. “What we
