Elbow Lake News

I hope all the dads had a good weekend. Saturday was a picture perfect day with lots of sunshine and highs in the 80s for the final day of spring.

ELBOW LAKE a ' The Underwood boys golf team shot their way to a third place finish at the Quad County Conference meet at Tipsinah Mounds Golf Course Monday, firing a 346.

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In the final days of the legislative session, chances are growing that there will be a push for a constitutional amendment to allow the use of medical marijuana.

Lacking agreement on items as large as classroom spending and as small as court document filing fees, Minnesota legislators resigned themselves Thursday to missing a self-imposed deadline for finalizing budget bills.

ST. PAUL a ' An attempt to lift a nuclear power plant construction moratorium fizzled Thursday in the Minnesota House.

A provision to allow mini-trucks on county and township roads has been included in a House transportation bill.

Eighth-grader Evan Arvig and freshman Dan Cavanaugh, both of Perham, led the Yellowjackets to a first place finish at the HOL's first golf meet of the year.

Attendees at a tax day protest in Elbow Lake Wednesday said they're concerned rising national debt will fall on the shoulders of their children.

It seems to me the government grew larger during the Bush administration and republicans didn't seem to mind.

The incident happened back on March of 2008, when a Grant County Sheriffs Deputy tried to stop 49-year-old Jeffery Anderson for speeding.

Republican Representative Torrey Westrom of Elbow Lake, who is blind, urged a Senate committee Wednesday to pass a bill making state documents, information and Web sites more accessible for people who are blind or deaf.

ST. PAUL a ' A half-dozen years of fighting appears near an end for Douglas County's Central Lakes Region Sanitary District.

Flooding on the roadway has prompted the Minnesota Department of Transportation to close a small section of Highway 55 in western Minnesota.

Work at the Banner Engineering plant in Fergus Falls is scheduled to finish by the end of the week, though most employees are already gone.

Okay, Eva egged me on to post about a lurid crime involving a guy I know from high school.

The Minnesota House unanimously voted to support freedom of the press Thursday, after a week of controversy.

The story of a 17-year-old Elbow Lake girl kidnapped by her stepfather and stepbrother last weekend, allegedly at gunpoint, is another sad reminder of how profoundly a family can unravel.

Trinity Lutheran Church in Spencer had good reason to celebrate. The Rev. Karl Rose has been serving its congregation for 10 years.

David Sabby sat with his shoulders hunched, head down, as an Otter Tail County District Court judge read aloud the 10 criminal charges against him.