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Alexandria Echo Press

Wheaton is FCA guest speaker


Former professional tennis player will speak at breakfast

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Cross country: Card duo qualifies for nationals


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Card girls' hockey team wins opener


Alexandria broke open a 1-1 tie in the second period with three goals, then went on to score seven more in the final period to overwhelm Detroit Lakes 11-1 in the Cardinals' season opener last night, Thursday at the Runestone Community Center.

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Different schools await 400-500 students


The start of the 2009-2010 school year in Alexandria will be full of changes - a new elementary school, new students, new teachers and new rules for where students will be attending school.

Nearly two years ago, Alexandria School District 206 began studying its elementary attendance boundaries. After all the studying and gathering of information, a new plan will soon come to fruition.

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Don't let 'em eat cake


There's no way Judy Faber can have her cake and eat it too. She'd break off her teeth trying to chew it.

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CLRSD permit goes before state panel


The future of a locally contested sewer project is back in the hands of state officials.

Two months after tabling its decision on the Central Lakes Region Sanitary District, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Citizens' Board plans to meet Tuesday with the project again on the agenda.

The board, charged with regulating water treatment methods in Minnesota, must decide whether or not to approve the estimated $26 million third phase of the CLRSD's proposed wastewater treatment facility.

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Imagine...Douglas County 150 years ago


As Minnesota and Alexandria's sesquicentennial year comes to a close, take another moment to imagine what the Douglas County area was like 150 years ago. Imagine.

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Hockey: Express steams into Alex


Owatonna is within five points of the first place
Alexandria Blizzard

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All eyes on ballots


Hunched over the gray table in front of him, the man in the dark green flannel shirt squinted at the sprawling piles of white paper before him.

He scanned each piece, looking for the proper mark, before picking it up, the single sheet making a slight scraping noise as it slid across the one below it.

The man, flanked on each side by keen observers, counted: "One, two, three&"

And so it went Wednesday, the first day of Douglas County's part in the statewide recount for the 2008 Minnesota Senate race.

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Pilot pulls off safe belly landing


As Fred Bursch took off in his twin-engine, six-passenger airplane from the Alexandria Airport Wednesday afternoon, he heard a strange noise when he retracted his landing gear - a clunk.

This signaled the start of a four-hour ordeal that put Bursch's piloting skills to the test.

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