Kurtis Huisman, a senior running back/linebacker for Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City High School, is a finalist for the Mr. Minnesota Football Award.
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Litchfield junior Hannah Walsh finished 19th in the Class A state girls swimming and diving prelims of the 100-yard breaststroke Nov. 21 at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center in Minneapolis.
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The Eden Valley-Watkins School Board received good news Monday in the form of its annual district audit.
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The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has issued an expanded consumer advisory telling consumers to avoid eating any Wonderfarm brand cookie-type biscuit products due to melamine contamination.
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In order to support the streamlined modification program announced on Nov. 11, 2008, Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) today issued a notice to its loan servicing organizations and retained foreclosure attorneys directing them to suspend foreclosure sales on occupied single-family properties as well as the completion of evictions from occupied single-family properties scheduled to occur from Nov. 26, 2008, until Jan. 9, 2009.
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The recount in Meeker County ended around 6 p.m. Thursday night with a total of 58 challenged ballots.
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Litchfield School District voters soundly rejected any school-related increase in their taxes Nov. 4.

It might be tempting to blame the 56-percent ‘no’ vote on the economy. As popular wisdom goes, nobody wants an increase in their taxes, and they want it even less so when the economy is in the dire straits it is today.

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On the morning of Oct. 30, 2007, Amanda Jax’s friends could not wake her.
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I am going to try to do a little more blogging, and I hope you don't mind my ramblings. It is another Friday and of course I have plenty to do. As far as work goes, it is tearsheet day for me. That is when we go through the Sunday editions and tear out advertisements for customers who would like to see them before the public gets their copies, some hang them up in their stores or use them for other reasons. This time of year is also busy because we have several special editions/sections that we are preparing for.

Roadsides and wildlife will be the featured topics at a public meeting at the Minnesota Department of Transportation office in Marshall on Thursday, Dec. 4.
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