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Senators Klobuchar and Smith announce a grant for the Crookston Municipal Airport

 U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tina Smith (D-MN) announced they secured significant federal funding for infrastructure improvements at Crookston Municipal Airport. The grant provides $455,192 for a new 418-foot taxiway to provide airfield access to the site of a future hangar, bringing the airport into conformity with current standards. This grant funds the final […]

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CHAIR TINA SMITH TO LEAD SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING ON RENEWABLE ENERGY FEATURING SHANNON SCHLECHT

WASHINGTON, D.C. [6/21/21]—Tomorrow U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-Minn.) will lead her first hearing as Chair of a key Senate rural development and energy panel, where leaders from Minnesota and across the country will discuss opportunities for jobs and economic development in rural America that expanding the nation’s use of renewable energy will bring. Chair Smith will be joined by Ranking Member Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and other members of the subcommittee at the hearing, entitled, “Renewable Energy –

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IT WAS A GOOD NIGHT FOR MOST LOCAL INCUMBENTS ON TUESDAY’S ELECTION

It was a good night for most incumbents in area elections on Tuesday night as two of the four Crookston City Council members won reelection, all three Crookston School Board members won reelection, State Representative Deb Kiel, and State Senator Mark Johnson all won reelection.  CROOKSTON CITY COUNCIL Crookston City Council will have one new

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THE COUNTY LINE BY POLK COUNTY COMMISSIONER WARREN STANDELL

By Warren Strandell – Polk County Commissioner, District 2 Without getting into the politics, here are few numbers from the Primary Election that might be of interest. The numbers are those that the media generally doesn’t report (probably because they aren’t of a lot of interest to most): Polk County, with a population estimate of

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PETERSON AND FISCHBACH WIN PRIMARY ELECTION, SETTING UP A BIG BATTLE WITH NATIONAL ATTENTION

The primary election was held on Tuesday, and the voting in northwest Minnesota went as expected. In the United States Representative District 7 primary, Collin Peterson won the Democratic nod with 24,794 votes (76 percent) with 91 percent of the precincts reporting. Michelle Fischbach won the five-person Republican race with 24,121 votes (59 percent) compared

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CHAIRMAN OF THE MINNESOTA DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR PARTY VISITS CROOKSTON

Recently Minnesota Democratic-Famer-Labor (DFL) Party Chairman Kent Martin visited Crookston to meet with local activists and talk about the issues that the party is focusing on for the coming election in November 2020.  Martin told KROX that the upcoming election is an important one, and the DFL wants to make sure people are participating. “We’re

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