Paynesville News

Changes to the Minnesota agricultural tax program called Green Acres have prompted Stearns County to schedule a series of meetings to explain differences in the program.

Stearns County will host three meetings to get input from residents as it updates the county's land use and zoning ordinance.

PAYNESVILLE - A company is proposing to build Central Minnesota's first large-scale wind farm north of Paynesville.

A savings account has been set up for Eric and Nancy Kohorst and their four children.

This is the time of year many people give to their favorite charity. But Jason Davis found one woman who likes to spice it up year round for a cause near and dear to her heart when he went on the road to Paynesville.

Thrivent Lutheran Engagement Team members Judy Dinger and Joy Peterson have announced a $236,3999 award to Central Minnesota Habitat for Humanity for projects in Paynesville and St.

Historic Salem Community Church north of Paynesville will be the site of an old-fashioned Christmas program and reindeer sleigh rides on Dec.

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A woman cleaning a church near Belgrade was hurt Tuesday during a robbery in Kandiyohi County, according to Kandiyohi County Sheriff Dan Hartog said.

Two people were arrested this morning after a man was stabbed in Eden Valley. Police were called at 1:22 a.m. to a home about an assault that occurred there.

Both J&L Diary in Clarissa, MN and Evergreen Acres Dairy LLC in Paynesville, MN were sent official letters of caution by the FDA in October warning the dairies to take "prompt action to correct the violations" found in several dairy animals.

It took a $787 billion dollop of legislative Drano to unclog one Paynesville, Minn., resident's plumbing.

Tom & Terry Niehaus of Richmond, along with Richard & Linda Michaelis of Paynesville, announce the marriage of their children Amy Niehaus & Darren Michaelis.

A Mexican euphemism for a bribe - " literally, "a little bite." Minnesota state senator Michelle L. Fischbach recently made headlines after her family came face-to-face with a Mexican tradition of bribery while on vacation in Cancun.

"Piece of cake," the three police officers might have thought when they spied the rental car with five American tourists driving down the main drag of Cancun's hotel zone.

SPRING HILL - So much for cell phones and 911. There are still spots in rural Minnesota where people call the nearest cafe for help when a farmer's life is on the line.

A central Minnesota man is doing OK after being rescued from a corn bin. Stearns County sheriff's deputies were called Tuesday to a farm near Spring Hill by a man who said his 39-year-old son, Steven Pung, had climbed into the bin on the family's farm.

PAYNESVILLE - A 39-year-old rural Spring Hill man was pulled from a corn bin Tuesday by deputies and Elrosa Rescue Squad members at a farm at 35535 Stearns County Road 14.

Peter Robert Stibal was charged today with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and four counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct.

Kathleen and Francis Ziegler of Paynesville are pleased to announce the engagement of their son, Frank Ziegler, also of Paynesville, to Laura Sather of St.