05/15/2008 12:00 AM ST. PAUL – Portraits of three former governors displayed in the State Capitol were vandalized Wednesday, but the Minnesota Historical Society said they can be repaired.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM Headquarters for this year’s festival is in the Minnesota State Community and Technical College, and the featured speaker is author and active field researcher Scott Weidensaul. The event is Thursday through Sunday.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM This week is National Law Enforcement Week. Officers who have died in the line of duty will be remembered for the sacrifice they made to keep this country safe.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM Motion signs are going to be allowed in Detroit Lakes, and although existing signs are grandfathered in, most of them would have been legal under the ordinance anyway.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM The enforcement leads into the summer driving season, the deadliest time on the roads. A seat belt citation is $25 but can cost as much as $115 with court and administrative fees.
05/14/2008 12:00 AM Legislative leaders and Gov. Tim Pawlenty are back at the negotiating table today, after budget-balancing talks broke off late Tuesday and Democrats passed an education bill against the governor’s wishes.
05/14/2008 12:00 AM Hundreds of North Dakotans can help solve a health mystery by participating in a study that will investigate possible risks associated with eating wild game killed by lead bullets.
05/14/2008 12:00 AM
Students looking to participate in extracurricular activities at Detroit Lakes High School next year will see a $10 increase in activity fees.
05/14/2008 12:00 AM Since Rollie Oelfke retired as chief jailer from the Becker County Sheriff’s Department last November, the position has remained unfilled.
Molnau kicks off Capital for a Day Brian Basham/Record
Detroit Lakes Mayor Larry Buboltz, Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau, Kelly Blackledge and Cleone Stewart have a laugh before the dedication ceremony for the Detroit Lakes City Park’s rain garden Wednesday morning. Molnau was in town Wednesday, helping Detroit Lakes celebrate being named Capital for a Day.
05/14/2008 12:00 AM The Detroit Lakes city and school communities worked in unison to create an educational, interactive environment for over 220 sixth grade students last week.
05/14/2008 12:00 AM Because of that holding pond, construction project engineer for MnDOT Shiloh Wahl explained, there is no room for parking by the boat landing. Instead, boaters will have to park in the overlook area and walk back to their boats or park in the hotel parking lot they are staying at.
05/14/2008 12:00 AM A child born May 3 by emergency C-section after his mother was injured in a crash is making good progress in the hospital, but his future chances remain guarded, his parents and doctor said Tuesday afternoon.
05/14/2008 12:00 AM Keith Joseph Hanks, 25, of 13879 Echo Park Court, Burnsville, has been charged with felony second-degree controlled substance crime, sale.
05/14/2008 12:00 AM Dell Donald Holm, 51, of 25578 East Island Lake Road, Detroit Lakes has been charged in Becker County District Court with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and making terroristic threats, both felonies.
05/14/2008 12:00 AM Jason Lee Ruchti, 38, of 15 Wisconsin Street, Callaway, has been charged in Becker County District Court with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and third-degree assault, substantial bodily harm, both felonies.
05/14/2008 12:00 AM Donnie Lee St. Clair, 34, of 36644 Martin Drive, White Earth has been charged in Becker County District Court with felony second-degree controlled substance crime, possession.
05/14/2008 12:00 AM Beverly Ann Rogers, 20, of 26392 Crane Road, White Earth has been charged in Becker County District Court with felony second-degree controlled substance crime, possession.
05/13/2008 12:00 AM Continuing a popular Mother’s Day tradition, the federal government’s top official for baby names, Michael J. Astrue, commissioner of Social Security, Sunday jointly announced with Parade magazine the most popular baby names for 2007.
05/13/2008 12:00 AM State budget talks broke down Tuesday night, prompting questions about whether the 2008 legislative session can end peacefully or if the Democratic-controlled House and Senate will send the Republican governor bills he cannot accept.
05/13/2008 12:00 AM State budget talks broke down Tuesday night, and Democratic legislative leaders immediately began sending the governor bills he opposes before offering him a new olive branch.
05/12/2008 12:00 AM No one was injured in an early morning accident Monday that spilled molten aluminum 2 inches deep at Team Industries’ foundry in Detroit Lakes.
05/12/2008 12:00 AM Emma Johnson, senior at Detroit Lakes High School, was named a winner in the Minnesota Music Teachers Association State Piano Competition.
Competing with the governor Minn. Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau holds up a walleye Saturday on Pelican Lake in Minnesota. Molnau caught the first fish in the competition with Gov. Tim Pawlenty for the fishing opener. In the past six years, Molnau and Pawlenty have had a friendly competition for first fish caught, longest fish and most fish caught on opening day. Molnau has been the unofficial winner each year – and it seemed this year would be no different.
05/11/2008 12:00 AM Question: Is a golf cart to be used mainly to get to and from the golf course or can it be driven all around town on all the streets? Do you need a driver’s license?
Snowmobilers help the food pantry SUBMITTED PHOTO
The ULTRA Snowmobile Club donated $800 to the Becker County Food Pantry. Those present were Food Pantry director Jack Berenz, left, and secretary Alice Hammer, right, and ULTRA members Jeff Alberts and Chris Lindberg.
05/11/2008 12:00 AM For 21 years now, Minnesota State Patrol Trooper Malachy McCarthy, a Detroit Lakes native, has been keeping the highways and byways of the Rochester district safe for motorists.
05/11/2008 12:00 AM The Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce presents “Transform 2010” held Thursday, May 22, 7:30–9 a.m., in Ulteig Engineers, 1041 Hawk St. and Richwood Road.
05/11/2008 12:00 AM After discussion and a close vote, David Spies was denied tax increment financing for his condominium project on West Shore Drive, where Voyageur Lanes is now located.
05/11/2008 12:00 AM Thirty-four women gathered to assemble over 1,000 fresh orchid Mother’s Day corsages to be distributed to area pro-life churches. The corsages have a “Thanks Mom for Life” button attached.
05/11/2008 12:00 AM FACE, Inc., producers of the WE Fest and 10,000 Lakes Festival, have been awarded a $75,000 grant from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to increase recycling at special events held in Soo Pass Ranch.
05/11/2008 12:00 AM In recognition of National Nurses Day (May 6), Hospice of the Red River Valley is hosting an educational opportunity for area nurses as well as those interested in end-of-life issues.
05/11/2008 12:00 AM And in addition to DL being in the state’s spotlight for a day this week, the city also will be well represented this weekend during the state’s sesquicentennial festival. The local band The Fat Cats have been asked to perform.
05/10/2008 12:00 AM ‘You got any shiners?”
That was the million-dollar question Friday at Ken’s Tackle Shop on Otter Tail Lake, situated on what’s considered one of the top 10 walleye-fishing lakes in Minnesota.
05/10/2008 12:00 AM
ST. PAUL – A judicial panel recommends the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission reject an electric transmission project in western Minnesota that is linked to the proposed Big Stone II power plant.
05/10/2008 12:00 AM Congress needs to act to reign in speculators because “the Commodities Futures Trading Corp. is doing its best imitation of a potted plant,” Dorgan said.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM Three eighth-graders at Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Junior High spent Thursday in in-school suspension for sitting down during the pledge of allegiance.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM Michael Jeffery Eng, 39, of 25 Prairie View Estates, Glyndon has been sentenced in Becker County District Court for felony check forgery.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM David Alan Quashnick, 39, of 55566 Highway 34, Osage, has been charged in Becker County District Court with felony fifth-degree controlled substance crime, possession.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM Ty Spencer Walvatne-Donahey, 20, of Arvada, Colo., has been sentenced in Becker County District Court on a felony charge of fifth-degree controlled substance crime, possession.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM ome people don’t make changes because they think, “’What can one person do?’ But it’s how a lot of things get started.”
So says Hazel Harvego, 88, who may be that one person for this area.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM For some Frazee Elementary sixth-graders, Wednesday morning’s field trip to the Detroit Lakes/Becker County Airport was about the chance to take their first airplane rides.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM A group of teenagers spending a week in Orlando, Fla., during the summer doesn’t look like work at first glance.
Don’t tell that to 13 Lake Park-Audubon High School students. That’s the number who advanced to the Family, Career and Community Leaders of American National Leadership Meeting — to be held July 13-17 — after winning their events at the state convention in April.
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