Application period for CCM Health’s Community Investment program opens January 1, 2024
CCM Health has announced that the application period for large grants for its Community Investment Program will be open from January 1 to March 1, 2024.
Area Church Schedules
Assembly of God, ClarkfieldSUNDAY: Sunday School 9 a.m.; Worship 10 a.m.; Evening 7 p.m.Wednesday: Teens 5 p.m.; Young Explorers 6:30 p.m.Augustana Lutheran Church, ClarkfieldSunday Worship 10 a.m.Bergen Lutheran Church, Granite FallsSunday Worship 11 am.

Guess Who?
Each week, the Montevideo American News will share a photograph from our archives for you to “guess who”.

Rural business makes move into town by end of year
Valley Automotive is planning to open on Highway 212 in Granite Falls before the start of the new year.
Avera Granite Falls Health Center designated as a Stroke-Ready Hospital
Avera Granite Falls Health Center in Granite Falls, Minn.

Ridgewater welders make hunting more accessible with trailers
The rewards of helping others came to life recently for Ridgewater Welding students, thanks to the completion of a collaborative project with the Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center (PWELC) in Kandiyohi County.For 24 years, the PWELC organization with several volunteers has held limited “special” hunts for special people on Prairie Woods property during deer season.

Local woman finds much to be thankful for in completion of court program
Last Tuesday afternoon, Brittany Beecroft celebrated an accomplishment she says she was very grateful to have the opportunity to participate in.
Bluenose Gopher Public House Board of Directors officers elected
The Bluenose Gopher Public House Cooperative board of directors met Monday, October 30, 2023.
Registration open for Minnesota DNR webinars on winter outdoor skills and stewardship
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources invites people interested in wildlife and outdoor skills to check out the winter program schedule for the Minnesota Outdoor Skills and Stewardship Series.Webinars will cover winter sports that take place on the ice, owls, the northern lights, mudpuppies, reading the snow for animal tracks, ice fishing, boats and boating equipment, fish art, wolves, deer in winter, lynx and muskrats, winter foraging, and Critical Habitat license plates.
Explore the outdoors this winter by hunting Minnesota small game
Hunting pheasants, ruffed grouse, squirrels or rabbits offers opportunities to enjoy the Minnesota outdoors as temperatures fall and snow blankets the landscape.Pheasants: Hunting season is open through Jan.