Deer River News

Tracy LeRoy Phelps passed peacefully into eternal rest on Monday, May 21, 2012, surrounded by his family and friends.

Photo: #Ojibwe language teacher Gerald White sits in a classroom with students at Deer River High School.

Grand Rapids, MN -- 51-year-old Sheila Marie Jerry of Deer River, MN was sentenced Monday after she pleaded guilty to committing the felony crime of Theft of Public Funds after stealing $100,000 dollars while employed at the Deer River Department of Motor Vehicle.

Motorists who use Highway 2 between Deer River and Cohasset, near the junction of County Road 6, will see maintenance work and traffic will be detoured.

Minnesota voters will decide whether the state should require a photo ID when we go to the poling booth this November.