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Articles from the May 7, 2020 edition


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  • Dana Lee (Jensen) Cash

    May 7, 2020

    Dana Lee (Jensen) Cash March 26, 1966 ~ April 27, 2020 (age 54) Dana Lee (Jensen) Cash, age 54, of Longville, Minnesota passed away at her home on April 27, 2020. Dana was born in Bozeman, Montana on March 26, 1966 to Grace VanGeest and Jerry Jensen. Family that Dana is reunited with are mother, Grace VanGeest; Stepfather, Darrel; nephews, Jayme & Jacob Wipper; niece, Tina Kay Erickson; Grandparents, Al & Lou Jensen, Robert & Rebe Mather and Edwin & Edna Berger. Dana leaves behind her husband,...

  • Michael Roy

    May 7, 2020

    Michael Roy May 15, 1961 - May 04, 2020 Michael Roy, age 58, of Mahnomen, MN, died unexpectedly on Monday, May 4, 2020, at his home....

  • Minnesota needs up to 4,000 more workers to track COVID-19

    May 7, 2020

    Minnesota might need 4,000 more workers to identify and isolate the surging number of COVID-19 infections and their contacts, a state official said Wednesday. Known as contact tracers, they are a vital part of the "test, trace and isolate" strategy that the state has embraced to control the spread of the new coronavirus, which has sickened 8,579 and led to 485 fatalities. https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-needs-more-workers-to-track-covid-19/570259072/...

  • Minnesota reports 30 COVID-19 deaths, including two tied to food processing plants

    May 7, 2020

    Minnesota reported a single-day record of 30 deaths related to COVID-19 on Wednesday, including a worker in the 50s age range at the JBS plant in Worthington that has shut down amid a substantial outbreak of the infectious disease. More than three-fourths of the newly reported deaths involved elderly residents of long-term care facilities, which have become an increasing focus of state COVID-19 testing and response efforts. The state on Wednesday morning reported that one death involved a...

  • New Hope nursing home with deadly coronavirus outbreak cited for numerous health violations

    May 7, 2020

    A Twin Cities nursing home with a troubled regulatory past has become the site of one of the state's largest coronavirus outbreaks - continuing a deadly trend among senior facilities with poor health and safety records. At North Ridge Health and Rehab, a large senior community in New Hope with a 320-bed nursing home, 44 residents have died and another 68 have been sickened by the COVID-19 respiratory illness in recent weeks. Only one other senior facility in the state has seen more fatalities...

  • Minnesotans urged to stay close to home for fishing opener

    May 7, 2020

    Like so many things in this time of a pandemic, Minnesota's time-honored fishing opener won't be quite the same this year. This is the weekend when Minnesotans usually dig out their tackle boxes, hitch up their boats and line the highways to their favorite spots across the state. https://www.startribune.com/minnesotans-urged-to-stay-close-to-home-for-fishing-opener/570256862/...

  • Target sharing its COVID-19 safety tool kit to help other Minnesota businesses open up

    May 7, 2020

    Target Corp. is sharing its COVID-19 safety tool kit - including employee health screening checklists and social distancing signs that can be printed out - to provide a potential road map for other retailers and businesses as they look to reopen in the coming weeks. The Minneapolis-based retailer also said this week it has received more than 10,000 preorders for infrared thermometers from Minnesota businesses. Last week, Target began offering them at wholesale cost to businesses across the...

  • Minnesota attorney general's office fielded 400 complaints since eviction proceedings stopped

    May 7, 2020

    One landlord tried to kick a family with a 4-year-old girl out of their home over unpaid rent. A mobile home resident could not flush his toilet because the landlord cut his water off. Another landlord refused to supply the propane needed to heat his tenant's home in March and April. Those were among the most serious of the more than 400 tenant complaints the Minnesota Attorney General's Office has fielded since the state's eviction moratorium went into effect in March. https...

  • COVID-19 puts some Minnesota rural hospitals on life support

    May 7, 2020

    It was 3 p.m. on a weekday and the newly renovated hospital in Grand Marais, Minn., should have been buzzing with activity. Normally, patients would have been waiting to see doctors and hallways would have been busy with technicians leading patients to scans and blood tests. But on this recent day - and every day for the past seven weeks - the lobby's cushioned chairs sat vacant as the few staffers working wait for the first COVID-19 case to show up in northeastern Minnesota's Cook County....

  • More than 300 USDA meat inspectors sidelined by coronavirus

    May 7, 2020

    More than 300 federal meatpacking inspectors are either sick from coronavirus or in self-quarantine after exposure to the virus. As of Tuesday, 197 inspectors from the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) had tested positive for the virus, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. Another 120 employees are under quarantine. A union reported three inspectors have died from the virus. https://www.startribune.com/more-than-300-usda-meat-inspectors-sidelined-by-coronavirus/57...

  • Llamas, heroes of the pandemic?

    May 7, 2020

    Winter is a 4-year-old chocolate-colored llama with spindly legs, ever-so-slightly askew ears and envy-inducing eyelashes. Some scientists hope she might be an important figure in the fight against the coronavirus. She is not a superpowered camelid. Winter was simply the lucky llama chosen by researchers in Belgium, where she lives, to participate in a series of virus studies involving both SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome). Finding that her...

  • 'We don't know how it will end': Hunger stalks amid virus

    May 7, 2020

    WASHINGTON - When all this started - when the coronavirus began stalking humanity like an animal hunting prey, when she and her husband lost their restaurant jobs overnight as the world shut down to hide, when she feared not being able to feed her family - Janeth went outside with a red kitchen towel. It was Passover. Her pastor had told her about the roots of the Jewish holiday, about Israelites smearing a lamb's blood on their doors as a sign for the plagues to pass them by. So Janeth, an...

  • Bill to raise Minnesota's legal marriage age to 18 goes to Gov. Walz

    May 7, 2020

    Minnesota is poised to raise the legal marriage age to 18 in all circumstances, a move that could make the state the third in the nation to fully ban child marriage. The ban on underage unions was approved unanimously by the state Senate Wednesday, sending the measure to Gov. Tim Walz, who is expected to sign it. https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-state-senate-set-to-vote-on-child-marriage-ban/570174692/...

  • The Trading Post has a great selection of meat available now!!

    May 7, 2020

    The Trading Post has a great selection of meat available now!!...

  • Free giveaway at the Redby Ball Park on Thursday, May 7, 2020 - 3 PM - Until gone

    Free giveaway, starting at 3 PM - until gone Food, bedding, clothes, household items Donated from Open Arms Native Ministry, St. Paul This will take place at the Redby Ball Park on Thursday, May 7, 2020 Questions, contact Tina Roybal at 218 214 3820...

  • Attorney General Ellison defends ACA in Supreme Court

    May 7, 2020

    May 6, 2020 (SAINT PAUL) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison today joined a coalition of 20 states and the District of Columbia in filing their opening brief at the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) against efforts by the Trump Administration, a group of states led by Texas, and others to invalidate the entire ACA. Striking down the ACA would put the healthcare of tens of millions of Americans at risk as the country suffers from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this year, the Court granted the re...

  • Attorney General Ellison urges federal investigation of beef-packing industry

    May 7, 2020

    May 6, 2020 (SAINT PAUL) – Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison joined a bipartisan coalition of 11 attorneys general in asking the Department of Justice to pursue a federal investigation into market competition and potential anticompetitive practices by meat packers in the cattle industry. In a letter to US Attorney General William Barr, Attorney General Ellison and the coalition noted signs that packers are manipulating the market, and expressed concerns about the harm this apparent manipulation causes both cattle producers and c...

  • Exploring the Regional Impact of COVID-19 on Minnesota Workers

    May 7, 2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on employment in Minnesota, both in terms of scope and of speed. Over six weeks, beginning on March 16 through April 25, a total of 556,897 workers across Minnesota applied for Unemployment Insurance (UI). In comparison, during the height of the Great Recession, we saw about 454,000 total UI applicants during all of 2009. To help track UI applications by day, occupation, education level, gender, race and ethnicity, region and more, DEED developed the Daily and Weekly Unemployment Insurance...

  • Hennepin Healthcare expands community testing for COVID-19

    May 7, 2020

    One of the first testing labs in the state to offer COVID-19 testing has expanded to more clinic locations and is now supporting testing in long-term care, shelter and other settings by deploying teams of paramedics and nurses to do onsite collection. This expansion is vitally important to bring testing to underrepresented populations in our community and reduce transmission and outbreaks in long-term care facilities, group homes and other types of congregate care settings. “This information will help us identify where the virus is, how p...

  • New Cost Sharing Options Available for Small Minnesota Food and Beverage Makers

    May 7, 2020

    St. Paul, MN: The Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s (MDA) New Markets Program seeks to help farms and food businesses lean in to changes and opportunities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by offering new cost-sharing options for small Minnesota food and beverage makers. With specific eligibility and reimbursement limits that are available online, the program offers 50 percent reimbursement on the following expenses through the end of June: • Contracted merchandising help. This in-store support ensures that products are in stock and on the...

  • Project Grow - Tilling Begins May 4, 2020

    Project Grow - Tilling Begins May 4, 2020...

  • Looking Back: 2012 Red Lake High School Athletic Banquet - P15

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|May 7, 2020

    Looking Back: 2012 Red Lake High School Athletic Banquet held at Seven Clans Event Center in Red Lake....

  • Looking Back: 2012 Red Lake High School Athletic Banquet - P16

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|May 7, 2020

    Looking Back: 2012 Red Lake High School Athletic Banquet held at Seven Clans Event Center in Red Lake....

  • Red Lake Lady Warriors win Section 8A Tournament with 64-54 win over Badger-Greenbush-Middle River - P42

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|May 7, 2020

    FROM KKCQ SPORTS The Red Lake Warriors overcame foul trouble and a halftime deficit to win their third Section 8A championship in the last four years. With the Warriors trailing 21-20 at halftime, they scored the first six points of the second half to take a 26-21 lead, a lead they would not give up. Junior Kelanna McClain fouled out with 3:01 left in the game, but the Warriors were able to hold off a late charge by the Gators. Autumn Holthusen connected on four three pointers as Red Lake...

  • Looking Back to 2012 - April Red Lake Fishery Meeting - P4

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|May 7, 2020

    Looking Back to 2012 - April Red Lake Fishery Meeting held at the Red Lake Humanities Center....

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