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Articles from the January 13, 2022 edition


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  • At-Home COVID Test Kits are available for Community Members at the Red Lake Pharmacy

    Jan 13, 2022

    At-Home COVID Test Kits are available for Community Members at the Red Lake Pharmacy M-F, 8 AM - 3 PM. How-to video: AT HOME COVID TEST KITS Jill Andersen and John Nicholson from Red Lake Comprehensive Health discuss the antigen home test kits for COVID and demonstrate how to use the tests with step by step instructions. YouTube video link below. 12 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZoY_CxPILk...

  • Justice Iceman enlistes in United States Marine Corps

    Chris Jourdain, Red Lake Youth Sports|Jan 13, 2022

    Justice Iceman has enlisted to serve his country as a Marine. He comes from a long line of Warriors who've served their country in active duty. Great grandfather's Robert Iceman and Leo King served in WW II, his uncle Ervin Iceman served in the U.S. Army with active duty in Iraq and his father Michael Iceman served 4 years in the Marines and 9.5 years in the Army, doing 3 tours in Iraq and was awarded 2 bronze stars....

  • Paul Bunyan Communications 6th Pick-it Bowl Challenge Winners

    Jan 13, 2022

    (Bemidji, MN) (January 12, 2022) - Paul Bunyan Communications is excited to announce the winners of the 6th Pick-it Bowl Challenge, a free online contest for participants to pick the winners for the 2021-22 College Bowl games for a chance to win a credit on a Paul Bunyan Communications account. Winners of the 6th Paul Bunyan Communications Pick-it Bowl Challenge: 1st Place- $500 credit Troy Schulze, Park Rapids 2nd Place- $250 credit Cash McCray, Bemidji 3rd Place- $100 credit Jeffrey Smith 4th...

  • Dwight Alan Perkins

    Jan 13, 2022

    Dwight Alan Perkins May 14, 1975 ~ January 9, 2022 (age 46) Dwight Alan Perkins, 46, of the Marten Clan, passed away on Sunday, January 9, 2022, at LifeCare Medical Center in Roseau, Minnesota. Dwight was born on May 14, 1975, in Red Lake, Minnesota, to Kenneth Johnson and Gloria Perkins. He was raised in Ponemah and graduated from Red Lake High School. Dwight lived his young adult years in Ponemah and enjoyed playing softball, often traveling to play in tournaments. In 2005, Dwight moved to...

  • James George Smith

    Jan 13, 2022

    James George Smith June 5, 1976 - January 11, 2022 James Smith, age 45 of Onamia, MN passed away on January 11, 2022. Visitation will begin at 6 PM on Friday, January 14, 2022, at the District 1 Community Center on the Mille Lacs Reservation. A Funeral Ceremony will be held at 10 AM on Saturday, January 15, 2022, at the District 1 Community Center on the Mille Lacs Reservation with Nazhike officiating. Interment will be in the Vineland Burial Grounds. Upcoming Events Visitation JAN 14. 6:00 PM...

  • Clyde Bellecourt

    Jan 13, 2022

    Clyde Bellecourt May 8, 1936 - January 11, 2022 A full obituary will be published soon. All - night Visitations: Thursday, January 13, 2022 - 7:00 P.M. Phillips Community Center Minneapolis, Minnesota and Friday, January 14, 2022 - 7:00 P.M. White Earth Community Center Whiteearth, Minnesota Funeral Service: Saturday, January 15, 2022 - 11:00 A.M. White Earth Community Center Whiteearth, Minnesota...

  • Rhonda Marie (Norcross) Lopez

    Jan 13, 2022

    Rhonda Marie (Norcross) Lopez December 24, 1957 ~ January 7, 2022 (age 64) Rhonda Marie (Norcross) Lopez, age 64, "Nagweyaab Giizhigookwe" meaning "Rainbow Sky Woman" of Pine Point, Minnesota began her journey to the spirit world on Friday, January 7th, 2022 from the Sanford Hospital in Fargo, North Dakota. Rhonda was born on Christmas Eve in 1957 to Margaret Ann (Rock) and Myron David Norcross, Sr. Rhonda worked various jobs through out her life like maintenance for the Shooting Star Casino...

  • Minneapolis, St. Paul to require vaccine proof to get into bars, restaurants

    Jan 13, 2022

    Minneapolis and St. Paul will require customers to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test to enter restaurants, bars and other entertainment venues, marking some of the most aggressive steps the Twin Cities have taken to curb the spread of the virus. The action comes as officials are trying to temper a spike in infections and hospitalizations fueled by the fast-spreading omicron variant, which is causing staffing shortages across industries. "This is a critical next step to avoid...

  • Minnesota stops requiring child care providers to quarantine kids exposed to COVID-19

    Jan 13, 2022

    The state will no longer require child care providers in Minnesota to quarantine students and staff who were in contact with someone testing positive for COVID-19, though it recommends they continue to do so. The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), which notified providers Tuesday of the change to its licensing requirements, is walking a tightrope as the surge of omicron cases frustrates providers and families alike. The spike has wreaked havoc on early-childhood classrooms - leading...

  • Minneapolis schools will go virtual for two weeks starting Friday

    Jan 13, 2022

    Minneapolis Public Schools will go virtual for two weeks due to a "significant reduction" in school staff available to work because of COVID-19, district officials said Wednesday afternoon. Students will begin learning virtually on Friday and return to classrooms Jan. 31. In-person after-school programs will go on hiatus during the break while varsity athletics practices will continue as planned. Junior varsity, b-squad and middle school sports have been canceled. https://www...

  • Vikings have pointed to five candidates as names to watch for general manager position

    Jan 13, 2022

    The first two days of the Vikings' general manager and coaching searches have played out relatively quietly, with executive vice president of football operations Rob Brzezinski, chief operating officer Andrew Miller and co-directors of player personnel Ryan Monnens and Jamaal Stephenson huddling with team ownership to form a list of candidates. But there were signs things were starting to pick up as of Wednesday evening. People with knowledge of the GM and coaching searches around the league...

  • Trump slams politicians who won't say they got booster shots

    Jan 13, 2022

    NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump is slamming politicians who refuse to say whether they have received COVID-19 booster shots as "gutless." "You gotta say it. Whether you had it or not, say it," Trump said in an interview that aired Tuesday night on the conservative One America News Network. Trump, who was booed last month by supporters after revealing he had gotten a booster shot, has become increasingly vocal in calling out those who have questioned the vaccines' efficacy and safety. It's a change in posture for Trump as he eyes a...

  • GOP leader McCarthy says he won't cooperate with 1/6 panel

    Jan 13, 2022

    WASHINGTON - The House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection requested an interview and records from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday, as it continues to seek first-hand details from members of Congress on former President Donald Trump's actions on the day hundreds of his supporters brutally beat police, stormed the building and interrupted the certification of the 2020 election. McCarthy issued a statement saying he would refuse to cooperate. He said the...

  • Remote learning? We're done with it.

    Jan 13, 2022

    I didn't log my children into remote learning the other day. Around 4 p.m. Sunday we received the dreaded e-mail from Minneapolis Public Schools: "tomorrow will be an e-learning day." My first response: "Nope, not doing it." https://www.startribune.com/remote-learning-were-done-with-it/600135244/...

  • Enbridge-funded state account has paid over $4.8M for Line 3 policing costs

    Jan 13, 2022

    Enbridge has doled out about $4.8 million to cover policing and public safety costs related to construction of its new Line 3 across northern Minnesota - and the final tab will be higher. Meanwhile, courts in counties along the pipeline's route are clogged with hundreds of cases involving protesters. Several have been charged with felony theft for chaining themselves to pipeline construction equipment. The felony theft charges, which have been levied in several counties, are prosecutorial...

  • US hits NKorean officials with sanctions after missile test

    Jan 13, 2022

    WASHINGTON - The Biden administration on Wednesday slapped sanctions on five North Korean officials in its first response to Pyongyang's latest ballistic missile test and later announced it will also seek new U.N. sanctions. The Treasury Department said it was imposing penalties on the five officials over their roles in obtaining equipment and technology for the North's missile programs. In addition, the State Department ordered sanctions against another North Korean, a Russian man and a...

  • Trump abruptly ends NPR interview after he is pressed on baseless election fraud claims

    Jan 13, 2022

    Former president Donald Trump abruptly ended an interview with NPR on Tuesday after he was pressed on his baseless claims of election fraud and repeated contention that the 2020 election was "rigged" against him. Trump hung up on "Morning Edition" host Steve Inskeep nine minutes into what NPR said was scheduled to be a 15-minute interview that was broadcast Wednesday. After several lines of questioning related to Trump's widely debunked election claims, Inskeep asked Trump if he would endorse...

  • Red Lake felon sentenced for illegal possession of firearm, meth and fentanyl

    Jan 13, 2022

    RED LAKE — A Red Lake man has been sentenced to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for illegally possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl and possessing a firearm as a felon, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice. According to court documents, on Nov. 21, 2020, Joshua Jon Lussier, 34, was arrested in Hubbard County pursuant to a federal arrest warrant. In Lussier’s vehicle, law enforcement observed in plain sight a glass smoking device commonly used for met...

  • Minnesota School Boards Association cuts ties with national group

    Jan 13, 2022

    ST. PETER, Minn. — The Minnesota School Boards Association is among the latest in the U.S. to withdraw membership from a national association that asked for help from federal authorities in handling parent protests and threats at school board meetings and compared the issue to "domestic terrorism." Minnesota Republicans in November called on the state's school board association to leave the National School Boards Association (NSBA). "That the national school board organization would be involved in this attack on parents is outrageous," state S...

  • Minnesota to offer $200 to get kids 5-11 vaccinated against COVID-19

    Jan 13, 2022

    ST. PAUL — Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday, Jan. 11, announced that the state would offer $200 to Minnesota families that vaccinate their children ages 5 through 11 against COVID-19. The incentive programs follow several other rounds of giveaways for other age groups aimed at enticing people to get immunized against the illness. It also came as the omicron variant spurred record-level case counts in the state. Families that get their child or children a first and second dose of the vaccine between Jan. 1 and Feb. 28 will be eligible for the money, W...

  • Triple Homicide on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

    Jan 13, 2022

    On the early morning hours of January 5, a triple homicide occurred in Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. On January 10, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s Department of Public Safety released the names of three deceased victims who were shot and killed inside a home on the reservation. The bodies of Alma Garneaux, 38, Jamie Graham, also 38, and Michael White Plume Sr., 39, were found shot to death inside a home located at 554 BIA 28, Wounded Knee, according to a statement f...

  • Tribal Leaders Weigh in on the Catholic Church's Effort to Engage over Indian Boarding Schools

    Jan 13, 2022

    An increasing number of Catholic organizations are joining the discussion about Indian boarding schools. But what role do they have to play in the pursuit of truth and healing, and who is their participation serving? In November, Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, and Bishop James Wall of Gallup, New Mexico, chairman of its Native American Affairs subcommittee, sent a letter on...

  • Navajo woman sworn in as Arizona Senate member

    Jan 13, 2022

    Less than two hours before the 2022 legislative session began, the Senate welcomed Theresa Hatathlie as its newest member. The Coconino County Board of Supervisors appointed Hatathlie, 52, to fill the District 7 Senate seat vacated last month by Sen. Jamescita Peshlakai, who resigned to take a job with the Biden administration at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Like Peshlakai, Hatathlie is Diné, a citizen of the Navajo Nation. Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Brutinel swore in Hatathlie at the Senate on Monday morning. Flanked...

  • The 'incorrigible' Thunder Before the Storm

    Jan 13, 2022

    Nee-gon-we-way-we-dun introduced himself. He said he was from the Three Fire Society, Gathering of the Sacred Pipes, a Sun Dancer, and the American Indian Movement. “My spirit name is Nee-gon-we-way-we-dun,” he said. “The translation of that is Thunder Before the Storm.” Nee-gon-we-way-we-dun said he was only 11-years-old when a Becker County judge gave him another name, “Incorrigible.” https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/the-incorrigible-thunder-before-the-storm...

  • 2022 Tribal Election Announcement

    Jan 13, 2022

    The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe hereby announces that a Regular Election will be held on June 14, 2022, on the LEECH LAKE RESERVATION. This REGULAR ELECTION provides for an April 5, 2022, PRIMARY ELECTION in the event there are more than two (2) eligible candidates for each open position. Elected positions to be filled are as follows: A. SECRETARY/TREASURER-LEECH LAKE RESERVATION BUSINESS COMMITTEE-FOUR (4) YEAR TERM B. COMMITTEEPERSON ON DISTRICT I -LEECH LAKE RESERVATION BUSINESS COMMITTEE-FOUR (...

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