Granite Falls News

Share + Jul 4, 2009 10:38 pm US/Central Reporting John Lauritsen GRANITE FALLS, Minn.

During its existence, the city of Hanley Falls has seen many changes, and even more faces come and go.

There will be plenty of excitement both inside and outside the Lee Mar Ranch arena at this year's Western Fest, organizers said.

THUMBS UP: Banks have taken their share of knocks but it's great news when a regional bank constructs a new building in a small town.

A Minnesota police officer left Fargo over the weekend without his gun. Fargo police say the officer from Granite Falls, Minn., was staying at a motel and reported that his handgun was stolen from his room.

NEW ULM Rev. Roger E. Raebel, 80, of New Ulm, died Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at the New Ulm Medical Center.

The May heat wave is over! Not before we hit 97 degrees on Tuesday which was the warmest this early in the year in the 118 years of data.

The temperature reached 94 degrees about 3 p.m. in Rochester but fell short of the record high of 98 degrees, set in 1934.

Southwest Minnesota State University will recognize two groundbreakers Saturday.

Northwestern Minnesota lawmakers say a $67 million flood mitigation and relief package should pass this year, and there appears to be broad support for the plan.

A 120-year-old courthouse is about to give up secrets about the county it serves, thanks to the curiosity of a veteran' service officer turned historian.

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission Thursday gave CapX2020 utilities a green light to construct three 345-kilovolt electric transmission lines in Minnesota - " including one that goes through Douglas County.

In response to growing energy demands throughout the region, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has approved a Certificate of Need for the CapX2020 project, which recognizes the demand for three 345-kilovolt electric transmission lines, two of which Otter Tail Power Company is involved with.

GRANITE FALLS a ' Yellow Medicine County Sheriff Bill Flaten is concerned that the public doesna TMt fully realize what budget cuts to the court system might mean to them: Everything from enforcement of traffic speeding laws to conciliation court matters could be tossed to the wayside.

The Pipestone County Board received 10 bids, all lower than the engineers estimate of $1.8 million, for the construction of the new Public Services Building and site work at the April 14 County Commissionera s Meeting.

The soldiers of the Battery A 1st Battalion of the 151st Field Artillery Minnesota National Guard Unit in Marshall will leave for Fort Sill, Texas, on Sunday morning as part of the unit's deployment to the Middle East.

Police and a local school district are calling the drowning death of a fourth grader on a field trip a tragic accident.

An elementary student from the Montevideo School District died Sunday, two days after being pulled from a pool during a field trip.

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A western Minnesota boy was found unresponsive in a swimming pool in Granite Falls.