Clara City News

Here's one for those folks who think we're making too big a deal out of the outrageous price of gas.

A lot of those flags flying in the wind today were made probably made in the USA.

Students in the tiny west-central Minnesota school district of MACCRAY will get an extra day off - but have longer school days - this fall after the state Education Department gave the district permission for a ...

Two Minnesota men admitted they lied about poaching a deer in eastern Montana and agreed to pay stiff fines and accept a worldwide hunting ban for three years.

In December 2001, Osseo schools officials unveiled a bold new plan: the four-day school week.

Minnesota Education Commissioner Alice Seagren has an interesting decision to make.

For a while during this two-year run-up in fuel prices, it seemed as if demand were inelastic. via The Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press

Mr. and Mrs. Kent Tullos of Clinton announce the engagement of their daughter, Kimberly Joyce Tullos, to Josiah Meints, son of Mr. via Madison County Herald

“If it doesn't work you can always go back to five days.”

The district estimates it would save about $100,000 a year in costs for busing, heating, substitute teachers, and school lunches. via WCSH-TV Portland

The MACCRAY school district in west-central Minnesota is poised to go to a four-day school week next year to save money. via KXMA-TV Dickinson

Human error is blamed in the train derailment that led to the evacuation of 400 residents in Clara City during the early morning hours of Oct. via UTU News

“That fall riding my bike in October, I got cold riding it on the frozen gravel road up the cemetery hill on the way to my school house”

By Mike Jordan Today marks the 67th time that Bernard and Vi Rue have celebrated their wedding anniversary. via Lakefield Standard

Sentencing has been completed for two women who made more than $41,000 in fraudulent merchandise exchanges at the Willmar Wal-Mart. Kandiyohi County Attorney Boyd Beccue says Wal-Mart employee Veronica Menchaca ... via WCCO

The cure for nostalgia is to read history, and the cure for holiday sentimentality is to listen for 25 minutes to an old friend telling you in a deep mournful voice how desolate his life feels to him right now ... via Kitsapsun.com

The death of a Willmar soldier in Iraq was the region's top news story in 2007. The closing of the Willmar Regional Treatment Center, an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement sweep of Willmar, a train derailment ... via West Central Tribune

“This story, published in Minnesota Memories 3, provides a bit of Minnesota trivia, but it also teaches a history lesson about a time not so long ago when a TB diagnosis offered little hope. Rosemary has since died, but we still have her story.”

With Minnesotans poised to celebrate the state's 150th birthday in 2008, Albert Lea writer and editor Joan Claire Graham arrives at the party bearing the perfect gift-more than 500 true stories about our ... via HometownSource

Published: November 20. 2007 12:30AM - Last updated: November 20. 2007 8:18AM A four-vehicle crash early Monday afternoon on Minnesota Highway 23 in Kandiyohi County caused at least one person to be injured. via St. Cloud Times

Ramp reopens after turkey truck rollover in Mounds View MOUNDS VIEW, Minn. A freeway ramp has reopened in the eastern Twin Cities after a turkey truck rollover. via KXMB-TV Bismarck

“I think we have done 400 sandwiches”

Published: October 29. 2007 12:30AM - Last updated: October 29. 2007 3:43PM STORY CHAT The Central Minnesota Red Cross sent two people to Clara City to help provide food to those who were displaced and those ... via St. Cloud Times

BNSF Railway said it was "sorry" to Clara City for this week's train derailment with a $50,000 donation to the city. via KARE-TV Minneapolis