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Ralph Hall

2020-10-09T08:45:46-05:00October 5th, 2020|Categories: Obituaries|

Ralph V. Hall,age 57, of Stevens Point, WI formerly of Canby, MN passed away Friday, October 2020 at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton, WI. Funeral service will be 1:00pm on Sunday, October 11th at Our Saviours Lutheran Church in Canby, MN. Visitation will be 5 to 7pm with a Prayer Service at 7 pm on Saturday, October 10th at the Houseman Funeral Home-Birk Chapel in Canby. Visitation will resume one hour prior to the service at the church. Burial will be at the Canby City Cemetery at a later date. Ralph Victor Hall was born on May 24, 1963 in Pierre, [...]

Vera Sylte

2020-10-05T08:21:34-05:00October 5th, 2020|Categories: Obituaries|

Vera M. Sylte, age 93, of Ivanhoe, MN, passed away Friday, October 2, 2020 at her home in Ivanhoe.  Funeral service will be 1:00 p.m. Saturday, October 10, 2020 at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lake Benton, MN.  Burial will be in the Vesta Community Cemetery, Vesta, MN.  Visitation will be Saturday, October 10th from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lake Benton, MN.  Houseman Funeral Home, Birk Chapel in Canby, MN is entrusted with the arrangements. Vera Marn Blondina Henriksen Kletscher Sylte was born January 5, 1927 to George and Blondina (Jordan) Henriksen [...]

Charlotte Kraus

2020-10-07T07:52:00-05:00October 5th, 2020|Categories: Obituaries|

Charlotte Kraus, age 80, of St. Leo, MN passed away on Friday, October 2, 2020 at the Sanford Select Specialty Hospital in Sioux Falls, SD.  Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30am on Friday, October 9th at the St. Leo Catholic Church in St. Leo, MN.  Visitation will be 5 to 7pm on Thursday, October 8th at the Houseman Funeral Home-Birk Chapel in Canby, MN  with a prayer service at 7pm.  Visitation will resume one hour prior to the service at the church. Burial will be at the St. Leo Catholic Church Cemetery.  Houseman Funeral Home-Birk Chapel of Canby, MN is entrusted with [...]

Albert Van Dyke

2020-10-07T07:15:58-05:00October 5th, 2020|Categories: Obituaries|

Albert J. Van Dyke, age 86, of Pipestone, Minnesota died peacefully on Friday, October 2, 2020 at the Avera McKennan Medical Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Visitation will be held on Tuesday, October 6, 2020 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM at the First Baptist Church in Lake Benton, Minnesota. Funeral service will be Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at 2:00 PM in the parking lot of church. Please bring a lawn chair if you are planning to attend the funeral service. Interment will be in Memorial Hill Cemetery outside of Lake Benton.  Per MN Executive Order, masks will be required [...]

Marjorie Seitz

2020-10-06T10:17:13-05:00October 5th, 2020|Categories: Obituaries|

The funeral service for Marjorie “Marj” Seitz, 100, of Cottonwood will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 10, 2020, at Christ Lutheran Church in Cottonwood. A walk-through visitation will take place one hour prior to the service at the church. Due to COVID-19, mask and social distancing requirements will be observed. Interment will follow the service at Christ Lutheran Cemetery in Cottonwood. Marjorie Gertrude (Kraft) Seitz was born March 25, 1920, in Hersey Township near Brewster, Minnesota, to John and Fronnie (Bisch) Kraft. She grew up on the farm one of seven children and was baptized and confirmed at [...]

Howard Peterson

2020-10-05T06:18:18-05:00October 5th, 2020|Categories: Obituaries|

Howard N. Peterson, age 77, of Lake Benton, Minnesota  died Thursday, October 1, 2020, at PioneerCare in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. A visitation will be held on Tuesday, October 6, 2020, from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM at the Hartquist Funeral Home in Lake Benton. Arrangements have been entrusted to Olson Funeral Home in Fergus Falls and Hartquist Funeral Home - Lake Benton Chapel. Howard was born June 22, 1943, to Donald and Isabelle (Larson) Peterson, in Minneapolis, MN. He attended Hawthorn School, Riverside, and also Moorhead High School, where he graduated in 1961.  He was a truck driver for Atlas Moving and [...]

MPCA fines Central Bi-Products plants $130k for wastewater violations

2020-10-02T07:57:36-05:00October 2nd, 2020|Categories: News|

REDWOOD FALLS (KMHL) – Farmers Union Industries LLC, has been fined $130,000 by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for wastewater overflow and other violations at the Central Bi-Products plants in Redwood Falls and Long Prairie. In a news release, the MPCA says the primary violation was for operating wastewater treatment ponds above the permitted maximum level. The Central Bi-Products plants processes animal carcasses into feed and fat products – according to the MPCA, both plants processed significantly more material in 2018 than amounts submitted in their permit applications. The additional materials turned into excess wastewater volume and elevated pond levels.

13 more Minnesotans die from COVID-19

2020-10-02T07:19:25-05:00October 2nd, 2020|Categories: News|

ST. PAUL (LEARFIELD)  --  13 more Minnesotans have died from COVID-19--including seven people who lived in long-term care facilities. There are 1,066 newly reported cases of coronavirus and more than 100,000 cases have been confirmed statewide. That's according to the Minnesota Department of Health. So far, 2,049 people have died from COVID-19 in Minnesota.

MSHSL sets winter high school sports schedule

2020-10-02T07:13:36-05:00October 2nd, 2020|Categories: News|

ST. PETER (LEARFIELD) - The Minnesota State High School League Board of Directors voted Thursday to adopt a shortened winter high school sports season schedule with a maximum of two contests per week. Teams will play 70 percent of their normal schedule of games. The schedule allows for only conference, section and local opponents. Boys hockey and basketball will begin on November 23rd, girls hockey will start on November 30th and girls basketball will begin December 7th.

State Senator chides MDH for decision to keep hospitalization data from public

2020-10-01T09:44:00-05:00October 1st, 2020|Categories: News|

ST. PAUL (KMHL) – A Republican state senator and doctor who has been critical of the Walz administration's response to COVID-19 is taking the Minnesota Department of Health to task for removing data on the amount of statewide hospitalizations from COVID-19 in its public reporting. In a video posted on Facebook, Sen. Scott Jensen (R-Chaska) says removing that data is undermining the Department of Health’s transparency in the eyes of the public. "If you're upset with the lack of transparency, you should be. If you think you're being played, you probably are," said Jensen. "If people want to complain at the Department [...]

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