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Ronald R. Whitefeather, Sr., 72, passed away July 17, 2019 at Golden Living Center. He was born in Red Lake, Minnesota on March 2, 1947 to the late Isaac and Josephine Whitefeather. Ron had retired from Best Chairs and was a member of the Red Lake [Tribe] of the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Ron loved to pester people, buy, sell and trade anything, riding his scooter and spending time with his grandchildren. Surviving are his children, Delwyn Whitefeather, Tell City, Ron Whitefeather, Jr....
Roy Joseph DeFoe Sr. October 17, 1957 ~ July 16, 2019 (age 61) Roy Joseph DeFoe, Jr., age 61, of Cloquet, Minnesota, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, July 16, 2019. A full obituary will be posted soon....
Dawna Rae Jones December 30, 1989 ~ July 14, 2019 (age 29) Dawna Rae Jones, 29 years young, of Cass Lake, Minnesota journeyed to the spirit world on Sunday, July 14th, 2019 from Brainerd, MN. Dawna was born on December 30th, 1989 in Bemidji, MN to Veronica Jones and Robert Brown. Dawna grew up in Cass Lake, MN and loved to play basketball in her younger years. She graduated from Cass Lake-Bena High School at the age of 17 and went on to college for one year. It was then that she had her pride...
Bemidji, Minn. -The Beltrami Electric Cooperative Trust Board for Operation Round Up® met recently and awarded grants to 25 area nonprofit and community organizations totaling $20,325. Many local programs and non-profit organizations benefit from Operation Round Up®, a charitable program unique to electric cooperatives. The program is designed to give cooperative members a means of working together to use small change to make a big impact in our local communities. A complete list of...
Ronald C. Coleman January 25, 1939 - July 16, 2019 Ronald Coleman, age 80, of Mahnomen, MN, died Tuesday, July 16, 2019, at the Mahnomen Health Center Nursing Home surrounded by family. Ronald Charles Coleman was born on January 25, 1939 to Charles and Anna (Morgan) Coleman Sr. in White Earth, MN. Ronald grew up in Ponsford, MN, where he attended school and later received his GED. Soon after, he entered the work force in various jobs in the Naytahwaush area. On May 14, 1978, he married Thelma...
Sia Her remembers being told to go back to her country as a young Hmong-American refugee growing up in California. She knew she was from somewhere else, but that her family could not return. It has been many years since Her heard those insults. In her personal life now, however, she still occasionally observes racist remarks - and that they pass without objection from others. http://www.startribune.com/strictly-for-white-people-trump-s-comments-on-minority-lawmakers-spur-deba...
A barrage of pop-up thunderstorms flooding streets, swamping basements and casting parked cars afloat is adding to one of the soggiest years on record in the Twin Cities and other parts of the state. What’s more, this decade will likely be one of the wettest in Minnesota over the last century, according to state climatologist Kenny Blumenfeld. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-is-having-a-tough-time-drying-out/512867332/...
Less than 48 hours after Minnesota Human Services Commissioner Tony Lourey unexpectedly stepped down from his post, two top deputies who had announced their departures the week before decided to rescind their resignations. Wednesday's turn of events came a day after Lourey's chief of staff, Stacie Weeks, also announced her plans to resign, extending a dizzying shake-up of top leaders from the state's largest agency. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-dhs-chief-of-staff-resi...
Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo wants to add 400 more patrol officers by 2025, saying they are urgently needed to improve lagging response times while taking pressure off street cops and giving them more time to engage with residents. In his most forceful comments yet on staffing, Arradondo said the department's current staffing model has been broken for years and needs to be fixed, calling it a "critical time" for the state's largest law enforcement agency. The situation, he said,...
WASHINGTON - The Democratic-controlled House voted Wednesday to hold two top Trump administration officials in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with subpoenas related to a decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The House voted, 230-198, to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt. The vote, a political blow to the Trump administration, is largely symbolic because the Justice Department is unlikely to prosecute the...
The growing digital savvy of U.S. Bancorp's customers is starting to pay off for the nation's fifth-largest bank. In its latest quarterly results released Wednesday, U.S. Bank said one-third of its loan sales happened via its website and mobile app this spring, up from one out of four a year ago. With home mortgages, the change is more pronounced, with four out of five applications completed with digital tools. http://www.startribune.com/u-s-bancorp-s-latest-profit-rises-4-ba...
GENEVA - The deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency, the World Health Organization announced Wednesday after a case was confirmed in a city of 2 million people . A WHO expert committee declined on three previous occasions to advise the United Nations health agency to make the declaration for this outbreak, even though other experts say it has long met the required conditions. More than 1,600 people have died since August in the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in...
NEW YORK - Mexican drug kingpin and escape artist Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was sentenced Wednesday to life behind bars in a U.S. prison, expressing no remorse over his conviction for a massive drug conspiracy that spread murder and mayhem for more than two decades. Instead, a defiant Guzman took a parting shot at a judge in federal court in Brooklyn by accusing him of making a mockery of the U.S. justice system in refusing to order a new trial based on unsubstantiated allegations of juror...
Days after suggesting that U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar should go back to Somalia, President Donald Trump weighed in publicly on allegations that she had married her brother to skirt immigration laws, a charge she has vehemently denied. "There's a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. I know nothing about it," Trump said Wednesday in answer to a reporter's question. "You' re asking me a question about that. I don't know, but I'm sure that somebody would be looking at that."...
ST. PAUL – The Minnesota Public Facilities Authority (PFA) today announced $20.8 million in loan and grant funding for water infrastructure projects in Oronoco, Marshall and Detroit Lakes. “These three Greater Minnesota cities are utilizing PFA resources to improve their community wastewater infrastructure,” said Governor Tim Walz. “I congratulate these three cities on their awards.” “Investing in a water infrastructure prepares these communities for future economic growth,” said Steve Grove, PFA chair and commissioner of the Minnesota Dep...
BEMIDJI, Minn. – Motorists will experience lane closures, detours and delays as construction continues in Park Rapids. Crews will begin reconstructing Highway 71 on Monday, July 22 as the project moves to phase 2, weather permitting. Motorists will use County Road 53, Pleasant Avenue and Eighth Street in Park Rapids. The project will be constructing a roundabout on Highway 71 at the intersection with Hubbard County Roads 15 and 53 in Park Rapids. The project also includes pedestrian accessibility improvements on Highway 71, from County Road 1...
BEMIDJI, Minn. – Motorists traveling through Cass Lake on Highway 371 can expect a local traffic detour beginning Monday, July 22. Crews continue to make progress on the work and plan to move into Phase 2 of the project on July 22 (weather permitting). Motorists will detour onto Grant Utley Avenue northwest and Railroad Street. Truck traffic will continue to use the truck detour. The project will reconstruct Highway 371 in Cass Lake between Highway 2 and the railroad crossing, and resurface Highway 2 near the intersection with Highway 371. It i...
Mind, body, spirit is the theme of the 23rd annual spirit run, formerly "sobriety run" sponsored by the Red Lake Chemical Health programs of Red Lake. The Leech Lake youth chemical dependency prevention programs and the Mash Ka Wisen treatment center of Sawyer, Minnesota will also co-sponsor the event. The 200-mile journey will kick off with an opening ceremony and remarks at 10:00 a.m. July 31st at the Red Lake Pow wow grounds and will conclude August 3rd in Sawyer, MN where runners will carry...
12 July Celebration: Saturday Afternoon Pow Wow Red Lake Independence Day Pow Wow Winners 2019: https://www.redlakenationnews.com/story/2019/07/09/news/red-lake-independence-day-pow-wow-winners-2019/81714.html See all July 2019 Pow Wow: https://www.facebook.com/michael.barrett.35/media_set?set=a.2622813704447375&type=3 https://www.facebook.com/michael.barrett.35/media_set?set=a.2623615457700533&type=3...
12 July Celebration: Saturday Afternoon Pow Wow Red Lake Independence Day Pow Wow Winners 2019: https://www.redlakenationnews.com/story/2019/07/09/news/red-lake-independence-day-pow-wow-winners-2019/81714.html See all July 2019 Pow Wow: https://www.facebook.com/michael.barrett.35/media_set?set=a.2622813704447375&type=3 https://www.facebook.com/michael.barrett.35/media_set?set=a.2623615457700533&type=3...
12 July Celebration: Saturday Afternoon Parade Red Lake Independence Day Pow Wow Winners 2019: https://www.redlakenationnews.com/story/2019/07/09/news/red-lake-independence-day-pow-wow-winners-2019/81714.html See all July 2019 Pow Wow: https://www.facebook.com/michael.barrett.35/media_set?set=a.2622813704447375&type=3 https://www.facebook.com/michael.barrett.35/media_set?set=a.2623615457700533&type=3...
12 July Celebration: Saturday Afternoon Parade Red Lake Independence Day Pow Wow Winners 2019: https://www.redlakenationnews.com/story/2019/07/09/news/red-lake-independence-day-pow-wow-winners-2019/81714.html See all July 2019 Pow Wow: https://www.facebook.com/michael.barrett.35/media_set?set=a.2622813704447375&type=3 https://www.facebook.com/michael.barrett.35/media_set?set=a.2623615457700533&type=3...
12 July Celebration: Friday Evening Pow Wow Red Lake Independence Day Pow Wow Winners 2019: https://www.redlakenationnews.com/story/2019/07/09/news/red-lake-independence-day-pow-wow-winners-2019/81714.html See all July 2019 Pow Wow: https://www.facebook.com/michael.barrett.35/media_set?set=a.2622813704447375&type=3 https://www.facebook.com/michael.barrett.35/media_set?set=a.2623615457700533&type=3...
12 July Celebration: Friday Evening Pow Wow Red Lake Independence Day Pow Wow Winners 2019: https://www.redlakenationnews.com/story/2019/07/09/news/red-lake-independence-day-pow-wow-winners-2019/81714.html See all July 2019 Pow Wow: https://www.facebook.com/michael.barrett.35/media_set?set=a.2622813704447375&type=3 https://www.facebook.com/michael.barrett.35/media_set?set=a.2623615457700533&type=3...
Red Lake High School Graduation 2019 took place on Saturday, June 1, 2019, at the Red Lake High School. There were 27 graduates taking part in the ceremony....