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SBA deadline approaching for loans for Minnesota small businesses affected by 2022 drought
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is reminding small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture, and most private nonprofit organizations that May 9 is the filing deadline for federal working capital loans in Minnesota due to drought that began July 19, 2022.
MnDOT launches first multimodal trip planner to focus on rural transportation services
When a person wants to take a trip across the country, they can choose from a variety of travel planning apps to help make that happen. But what if the trip they want to take is from Mankato to New Ulm, or within their own community, using non-personal transportation? The Minnesota Department of Transportation has launched a pilot project to bring trip planning and payment technology for daily trips in areas less dense than in an urban setting.
Stream trout fishing opens statewide April 15
Minnesota’s popular stream trout season opens Saturday, April 15 with quality fishing opportunities in every region of the state. Brook trout and splake fishing also open April 15 on Lake Superior and its tributary streams.
Shots fired during execution of warrant in Granite Falls
Jessica Stölen-Jacobson Editor jstolen-jacobson@cherryroad. com Late Monday afternoon, a force of officers from the Cooperative Enforcement Effort (CEE) VI Drug and Gang Task Force, along with officers from the Granite Falls Police Department, Upper Sioux Community Police Department and Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office arrived at a home on the 1100 block of Bergeson Drive in Granite Falls to execute a warrant.
YMC Board hears report from Project Turnabout at regular meeting
com At Tuesday morning’s meeting of the Yellow Medicine County Board of Commissioners, Project Turnabout CEO Marti Paulson was on hand to provide a presentation on Project Turnabout’s operations and facilities. Paulson, who took over as the CEO of the organization in fall of 2020.
Severe Weather Awareness Week is April 17-21
Are you ready for severe weather? Each year, Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM), in collaboration with the National Weather Service sponsors Severe Weather Awareness Week in Minnesota. The week is designed to refresh, remind and educate everyone about the seasonal threats from severe weather and how to avoid them. It’s also a great time to make and practice your emergency plan and build or refresh your emergency preparedness kit.
MnDOT conducting aerial photography work in Southwest Minnesota
Minnesota Department of Transportation The Minnesota Department of Transportation will conduct aerial mapping of several locations in southwest Minnesota this spring. The mapping will create a record of existing infrastructure and landscape along, and adjacent to, MnDOT right of way for transportation planning and highway design. This work will be conducted after the snow has melted and before trees leaf out.
Volunteer Water Monitors celebrate 50 years, more needed to help state track water quality across SW MN
As snow melts across Minnesota, it’s time for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to kick off its popular program that relies on Minnesotans to monitor our 12,000+ lakes and 92,000+ miles of streams: the Volunteer Water Monitoring Program.
New sensory room completed at Montevideo Middle School
Jessica Stölen-Jacobson Editor jstolen-jacobson@cherryroad. com This winter, the Montevideo Community Foundation awarded a grant to the Montevideo Middle School to assist with the completion of a newly installed sensory room in the school.
Crowd gathers for information meeting about potential transfer of land
com Last Wednesday evening, a meeting was held at Minnesota West Community & Technical College in Granite Falls hosted by State Representative Chris Swedzinski and Senator Gary Dahms. The two called the meeting with a panel mostly of people involved directly with the potential transfer of land from the state of Minnesota to the Upper Sioux Community.