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Fall Clean-Up Week in Crookston will be October 26 – October 30. Clean-up items will be picked up only on your regular garbage pickup day and must be placed on the street boulevard. Please note: Compost material – grass clippings, lawn, or garden waste – WILL NOT have to be in City compost bags for […]
Planning, preparation, and implementation of COVID-19 processes to #ProtectTheNest at the University of Minnesota Crookston are working well. As plans are refined and updated to reflect changing circumstances, UMN Crookston faculty and staff are happy about outcomes to-date as well as the response and responsibility shown by our students, faculty, student affairs educators, and staff
Students returned to school for the first time since March on Tuesday in a much different fashion then years past as the students and staffed donned masks and had their temperatures checked before entering the building. Those weren’t the only things that were atypical about the first day of school, however, as the temperature was
The Polk County Commissioners heard a plan on Tuesday to share approximately 50 percent of the counties funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act with the county’s partner organizations and through small business relief grants. Polk County Administration Chuck Whiting presented the layout of a plan that would earmark approximately $400,000
Polk County Public Health has released the latest COVID-19 information for the past week. There were 11 new cases from August 6-12. There have been 156 total cases since March and 129 (84.9 percent) of the cases are out of isolation. There have been four deaths since March. The good news is the County had
There have been reports of blue-green algae blooms on lakes in Polk County. Blue-green algae are types of bacteria that are normally present in bodies of water and common in Minnesota. When conditions are right, the blue-green algae can grow quickly forming “blooms.” Certain varieties of blue-green algae can produce toxins that are linked to
