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Articles from the April 30, 2021 edition


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  • Nancy Gahbow

    Apr 30, 2021

    Nancy Gahbow February 17, 1969 - April 25, 2021 Nancy Gahbow, 52-year-old resident of Minneapolis, MN passed away on April 25, 2021. Visitation will begin at 8 PM on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at the District 1 Community Center on the Mille Lacs Reservation. Funeral Ceremony will begin at 10:00 AM on Thursday, April 29, 2021 at the District 1 Community Center on the Mille Lacs Reservation with Obizaan officiating. Interment will be in the Vineland Burial Grounds. Arrangements are with the...

  • Joseph Roberto Haro Jr.

    Apr 30, 2021

    Joseph Roberto Haro Jr. February 23, 1960 - April 26, 2021 Joseph "Jose" Roberto Haro Jr., passed away on Monday April 26th, 2021. He was born on February 23rd, 1960, son of Jose Haro Sr & Eladia Molina. Survived by his significant other: Dorinda Twobears; daughters: Ashley Haro & Allison Haro; five grandchildren: Jacob Mata Jr., Malaysia Haro, Marcus Badboy Jr., Wambli'ska Badboy andTristan Badboy. Preceded in death by a son Anthony P. Haro, two daughters Audrianna M. Haro & Bonni A. Haro, his...

  • Edward J. Bellanger Jr.

    Apr 30, 2021

    Edward J. Bellanger Jr. May 18, 1952 - April 27, 2021 Edward John Bellanger Jr., age 68, of Naytahwaush, MN, died unexpectedly on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, at his home. Funeral Services for Ed will be held Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 12:00 pm at the Naytahwaush Sports Complex, Naytahwaush, MN. Visitation will begin Monday, May 3, 2021 at 5:00 pm with a Wake Service at 7:00 pm at the Naytahwaush Sports Complex. Visitation will continue until the service on Tuesday. Burial will take place in the...

  • Minnesotans answer the call to fight the coronavirus surge in India

    Apr 30, 2021

    It's 4 a.m. in southern Minnesota and infectious disease physician Priya Sampathkumar has yet to go to bed. While others sleep, the Mayo doctor works into the wee hours from her Rochester home, making phone calls in a frantic search for hospital beds half a world away and for much-needed oxygen for patients she's never met. As the deadly coronavirus overwhelms her native India, Sampathkumar and her colleagues are fielding desperate calls from family, friends and friends of friends back home who...

  • Albert Lea bar owner who defied COVID restrictions and has been on the lam is arrested in Iowa

    Apr 30, 2021

    The Albert Lea business owner who defied state COVID-related restrictions at her wine and coffee bar and failed to show up for a bail hearing last month was arrested Thursday in Iowa. Lisa Hanson, who was released late Thursday afternoon from jail after posting $2,000 bail, told the Star Tribune that she still plans to speak Saturday at a previously scheduled "Stand for Liberty" rally at an Albert Lea park. Asked how she felt about being arrested, she said: "If I had done something wrong, I...

  • Vikings, after trading down, pick Christian Darrisaw in first round of the NFL draft

    Apr 30, 2021

    After trading down nine spots in the first round of the NFL draft on Thursday night, the Vikings picked the offensive tackle they'd targeted for much of the spring anyway. The Vikings made a move to protect quarterback Kirk Cousins, selecting Christian Darrisaw of Virginia Tech with the 23rd pick they got from the Jets. General manager Rick Spielman said the team was thinking about picking Darrisaw at No. 14, and admitted "we were a little tight" in the draft room about whether he would still...

  • Gov. Tim Walz, Democrats: Policing laws a top priority of session's final weeks

    Apr 30, 2021

    Gov. Tim Walz insisted Thursday that new police accountability measures must be part of the mix as the Legislature works to finalize a state budget and finish its session. "The accountability we saw last week for George Floyd is the floor - not the ceiling - of what we need to do in Minnesota to advance police reform," Walz said Thursday in St. Paul, where he was joined by a dozen state lawmakers who want a new round of policing bills in response to the murder of Floyd and this month's police...

  • Minnesota schools brace for big budget cuts amid pandemic fallout

    Apr 30, 2021

    Minnesota school districts are preparing to lay off teachers, drop programs and increase class sizes as they begin to feel the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their budgets. Across the state, districts that saw their costs surge and enrollment drop during the pandemic school year are drawing down on their reserves and finalizing millions of dollars in cuts. With state lawmakers in a stalemate over school funding and budget deadlines approaching, many schools have begun sending out...

  • Federal regulator steps in to protect Minnesota's wild rice stands

    Apr 30, 2021

    Wild rice waters contaminated with sulfate from industrial pollution have never been included on Minnesota's long list of officially polluted waters that require fixing. But they will be now - 30 of them across the state - thanks to federal regulators who stepped in to say the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) was breaking federal law by not listing them as impaired. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week sent the MPCA a list of 30 wild rice waters that don't meet the...

  • Idaho lawmaker accused of rape resigns after ethics ruling

    Apr 30, 2021

    BOISE, Idaho - An Idaho lawmaker accused of rape by a 19-year-old legislative intern has resigned after an ethics committee found he should be formally censured. The investigation into Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger began in March after a young staffer reported he raped her in his apartment after the two had dinner at a Boise restaurant. Von Ehlinger has denied all wrongdoing and maintains he had consensual sexual contact with the young woman. He resigned Thursday after an ethics committee unanimously...

  • Red Lake Lady Warriors Softball Team loses to Kelliher-Northome 18-3

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Apr 30, 2021

    RED LAKE MN - The Red Lake Lady Warriors Softball Team lost to Kelliher-Northome 18-3 at home in their second game of the season. On Tuesday, Red Lake lost to the Drakes 14-2 in Blackduck. The Lady Warriors are now 0-2 on the season and will host Pine River on May 3rd, travel to Cass Lake on May 4th and travel to Walker-Hackensack-Akley on May 7th. The Mustangs are now 2-1 on the season. SCHEDULE: https://www.redlakenationnews.com/story/2021/04/27/sports/revised-red-lake-warr...

  • Red Lake Lady Warriors Softball Team loses to Kelliher-Northome 18-3 - P2

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Apr 30, 2021

    RED LAKE MN - The Red Lake Lady Warriors Softball Team lost to Kelliher-Northome 18-3 at home in their second game of the season. On Tuesday, Red Lake lost to the Drakes 14-2 in Blackduck. The Lady Warriors are now 0-2 on the season and will host Pine River on May 3rd, travel to Cass Lake on May 4th and travel to Walker-Hackensack-Akley on May 7th. The Mustangs are now 2-1 on the season. SCHEDULE: https://www.redlakenationnews.com/story/2021/04/27/sports/revised-red-lake-warr...

  • Sexual Assault Awareness Walk to be held Friday in Red Lake

    Apr 30, 2021

    RED LAKE -- Equay Wiigamig, the women's shelter in Red Lake, will host a Sexual Assault Awareness Walk this week to take a stand against sexual violence and show solidarity with survivors. The walk will take place at 11 a.m. on Friday, April 30, and begin at the Boys and Girls Club in Red Lake. Attendees will march toward the Red Lake Nation College and Government Center and then end back near the Boys and Girls Club again. Healing songs will be sung during the walk, and participants are...

  • A Prayer Answered: SpaceX to Expand Internet Coverage in Rural Alaska With FCC Approval

    Apr 30, 2021

    "I have really slow internet at my house," Alaska Native Iñupiaq seventh grader, Kaden Kulukhon, wrote in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Kulukhon was among a handful of middle schoolers and educators beseeching the FCC to approve a licensing modification to send satellites into polar orbit, effectively offering remote Alaskan villages access to broadband internet. "All the people in my house use the internet. When COVID hit all the websites that I used at school could...

  • PolyMet mine project goes 'boom'

    Apr 30, 2021

    The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld a decision reversing a critical mining permit for the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota, in what was hailed as a win by the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and environmentalists in their long-running battle over the $1 billion project. The high court’s decision on April 28 affirmed the Minnesota Court of Appeals’ decision that the permit should not have been issued without further review. “In layman’s terms, the PolyMet permit to mine just went boom,” said Paula Mac...

  • Evening briefs in Indian Country - Headlines from April 29, 2021

    Apr 30, 2021

    Sugarbush brings healing, sweet maple syrup ODANAH, Wisconsin — Sugarbush time begins in the fleeting moments when winter first signals its departure, making way for spring. When the daytime temperatures rise above 40 degrees, usually about mid-March, the maple sap begins to flow. Although one can continue to gather sap after trees begin to bud, the syrup is bitter. Sugarbush is a short, delicious season of intense work signaling that the first fruits of the earth are emerging. Fresh maple sap is highly perishable and must be cooked into s...

  • Western Governors University Announces Scholarships in Honor of National Teacher Appreciation Week

    Apr 30, 2021

    Redby, Minn. (April 29, 2021) – In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, which runs May 3-7, Western Governors University (WGU) has announced it is offering $200,000 in scholarships to area teachers who are interested in furthering their education. The WGU Loves Teachers Scholarships are open to new students who are pursuing an AAQEP and CAEP-accredited bachelor's or master's degree from the online, nonprofit university's top-ranked Teacher's College, or are interested in completing one of the u...

  • SEASONAL LOAD LIMIT NOTIFICATION

    Apr 30, 2021

    Date: April 29, 2021 Subject: Spring load restrictions end in north-central and north frost zones The Minnesota Department of Transportation will end spring load restrictions (SLR) in the NORTH-CENTRAL and NORTH frost zones Monday, May 3, 2021 at 12:01 AM. Spring Load restrictions have already ended in the other frost zones. Frost zones and restricted routes can be found on the MnDOT load limits map. Start and end dates and other load limit information are shown at mndot.gov/loadlimits. Overweight permits for more than 80,000 pound gross...

  • EPA Announces Public Comment Period for Additions to Minnesota's Impaired Waters List

    Apr 30, 2021

    (CHICAGO--April 29, 2021) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a public comment period for 30 days regarding its inclusion of 30 additional waters impaired for sulfate on Minnesota’s Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 303(d) Impaired Waters List. The 30-day public comment period starts April 29, 2021 and ends May 31, 2021. EPA continues its review of extensive input from Tribes regarding waters “used for the production of wild rice,” along with any additional information received during this public notice and comment perio...

  • Redby Community Cleanup Day Door Prize Winners

    Apr 30, 2021

    $50 Walmart Gift Card- Tiffany Kingbird $50 Walmart Gift Card- Anna Oakgrove $50 Target Gift Card- Sydney Sayers $50 Target Gift Card- Peggy Thunder $25 JcPenny Gift Card- Donna Jourdain $25 JcPenny Gift Card- June Atkinson $25 Subway Gift Card- Arlen Barrett $25 Subway Gift Card- Ryan Roy $25 Hulu Gift Card- Tyron Thunder $25 Hulu Gift Card- Michael Brown $25 Buffalo Wild Wings Gift Card- Tyron Thunder Jr $25 Buffalo Wild Wings Gift Card- Jory Natewa $25 Dairy Queen Gift Card- Daniel Stately $25 Dairy Queen Gift Card- Adrianna Norris $25...

  • NAJA demands Gannett address pay disparities in U.S. newsrooms

    Apr 30, 2021

    OKLAHOMA CITY — The Native American Journalists Association demands Gannett immediately address sexist and racist pay disparities in its newsrooms and calls on journalism philanthropists, funders, grantors and subscribers to join as allies in holding the company accountable. According to a recent study by the NewsGuild-CWA, women and people of color made at least $5,000 less than their white male counterparts at 14 Gannett newsrooms in the U.S. At the Arizona Republic, a hub for Indigenous women working on stories from Indian Country, the gende...

  • 2021 Red Lake High School Prom - P9

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Apr 30, 2021

    5 Red Lake High School Prom King - Arron Chaboyea Queen - LaTayla Pemberton...

  • 2021 Red Lake High School Prom - P10

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Apr 30, 2021

    5 Red Lake High School Prom King - Arron Chaboyea Queen - LaTayla Pemberton...

  • Warriors split double-header with Laporte - P11

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Apr 30, 2021

    The Red Lake Warriors opened their baseball season on Thursday, April 22, 2021, hosting Laporte for a double-header. Three other games scheduled earlier season had to be postponed due to the weather conditions and will likely be made up sometime later in the season. Laporte won the first game, while Red Lake took the second. The Warriors have a very young team this year with no juniors or seniors on their roster. Red Lake is now 1-1 on the season and is schedule to travel to Lake of the Woods...

  • Warriors split double-header with Laporte - P12

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Apr 30, 2021

    The Red Lake Warriors opened their baseball season on Thursday, April 22, 2021, hosting Laporte for a double-header. Three other games scheduled earlier season had to be postponed due to the weather conditions and will likely be made up sometime later in the season. Laporte won the first game, while Red Lake took the second. The Warriors have a very young team this year with no juniors or seniors on their roster. Red Lake is now 1-1 on the season and is schedule to travel to Lake of the Woods...

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