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Energy consumers in Detroit Lakes and across north central Minnesota should prepare to pay higher rates, regardless of whether the Big Stone II power plant is eventually built. But energy costs will be a lot higher in a few years -- to the point where industry will start fleeing the state -- if opponents successfully kill coal power in Minnesota, according to Detroit Lakes Utilities Superintendent Curt Punt. "We won't see the brunt of this until the 2015-2020 period,' he said.
Score one for civil society. Four members of the "vote no" group sat down with three members of the Lake Park-Audubon School Board Tuesday night and nobody got hit. Or even shouted at. The four -- Ellis Peterson, Roland Lampton, Dan Hughes and Jim Lund, all of the Cormorant area -- met with school board members Jeff Swetland, Dale Bind and Rick Olson, as well as Superintendent Dale Hogie. There was no group hug, but they actually had a pretty decent discussion, cleared the air, and explained where they were coming from on the contentious issue of new school facilities in LP-A.
The Lake Park-Audubon School Board decided against holding primary elections at a special meeting Thursday evening in Lake Park. A primary election used to be required whenever there were more than two people filing for one seat on the School Board. But the Minnesota Legislature changed the law this year, and school boards now have the option of whether they will be subject to the primary election system. The LP-A Board voted unanimously to drop the primary system, with members Rick Ellsworth and Dale Binde absent. "Historically, LP-A hasn't had a big number of candidates," said Superi
For the promoters of WE Fest and the 10,000 Lakes Festival, the cost of doing business in Becker County has just gone up -- a lot. Concert promoters will now pay $2,000 a year for WE Fest and another $2,000 a year for 10,000 Lakes Fest to defray the county's administrative costs of reviewing each year's mass gathering plan. The annual cost has been $500 since the county first issued a conditional use permit to WE Fest in 1983. But the biggest new cost to concert promoters will be a "supplemental fee" of $20,000 each year to defray county costs associated with the 10,000 Lakes Fest. The
The Becker County Recorder's Office is going digital, one step at a time, and for those in the home mortgage business, it's the greatest thing since the latest Fed rate cut. Becker County Recorder Darlene Manavel went before the County Board Tuesday to talk about progress in electronic recording: In a few months, the recorder's office will be electronically recording assignments of mortgage, satisfaction of mortgage and certificates of release. That will save a lot of time for banks, title companies and attorneys, she said. "Within minutes they will be able to complete what it takes week
A Clay County detective testified Friday about finding the alleged murder weapon hidden in the rafters in an outbuilding near defendant Kenneth Andersen's house on Fish Hook Lake. Andersen is accused of shooting his lifelong friend Chad Swedberg twice -- in the shoulder and hip areas -- with a high-powered rifle fired from a distance. His first-degree murder trial started Monday in Detroit Lakes. The upper torso shot damaged internal organs and the combined gunshots caused Swedberg to drop to the ground, where he bled to death, according to the doctor who performed the autopsy, who also
Jesse Fain may have been just three years younger than his stepfather, Chad Swedberg, but he clearly liked him, enjoyed his company, and grieves his loss. The soft-spoken Fain, now 32, with short-cropped black hair and neatly trimmed beard and mustache, was called to stand Tuesday to testify in the first-degree murder trial of Kenneth Andersen of rural Waubun. Andersen, 34, was indicted by a Becker County grand jury in September for first-degree, premeditated homicide in the April 13 shooting death of Chad Swedberg, which occurred while he was processing maple syrup near his home in rural
Jesse Fain may have been just three years younger than his stepfather, Chad Swedberg, but he clearly liked him, enjoyed his company, and grieves his loss. The soft-spoken Fain, 32, with short-cropped black hair and neatly trimmed beard and mustache, was called to stand Tuesday to testify in the first-degree murder trial of Kenneth Andersen of rural Waubun. Andersen, 34, was indicted by a Becker County grand jury in September for first-degree, premeditated homicide in the April 13, 2007, shooting death of Chad Swedberg, which occurred while he was processing maple syrup near his home in rur
The wife of murder victim Chad Swedberg clashed with the defense attorney Monday at the Becker County Courthouse. Leslie Fain was the first to testify in the first-degree murder trial of Kenneth Andersen of rural Waubun. After more than three hours of testimony, it became clear that Fain's testimony was colored by the fact that she believed Andersen had murdered her husband.
Opening statements are scheduled for Monday in the murder trial of Ken Andersen of rural Waubun. Jury selection started Monday and wrapped up late Thursday morning. Twelve jurors are required for a murder trial.