Elbow Lake News

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In Elbow Lake there's a haunted house where some families refuse to live. In Fergus Falls, at the Regional Treatment Center , there are stories of employees seeing apparitions and hearing the phantom sounds of chairs moving along the floor.

On Sept. 24, 1909, about a year after a city-owned dam was built as part of a hydroelectric station along the Otter Tail River east of Fergus Falls, employee Ben Snyder was awakened at 4:20 a.m. and noticed the lights fading.

Bode The Rev. Tim and Beth Bode of Elk River announce the birth of their daughter, Karli Paige, Friday, July 31, 2009, at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids.

A head-on crash between a semi and a car sent one person to the hospital. It happened at 4:15 Tuesday afternoon, two miles south of Elbow Lake, Minnesota.

If youa re Norwegian, or would like to be, head to Elbow Lake this weekend for the annual Flekkefest Celebration.

If youa re Norwegian, or would like to be, head to Elbow Lake this weekend for the annual Flekkefest Celebration.

Too much rain for farmers west of Fergus Falls is contrasted by too little rain in Grant County, which includes the Elbow Lake and Herman areas.

Too much rain for farmers west of Fergus Falls is contrasted by too little rain in Grant County, which includes the Elbow Lake and Herman areas.

Water infrastructure projects are moving forward in communities throughout the state with help from federal stimulus money.

The Minnesota Public Facilities Authority has awarded $27.3 million in federal stimulus funds to communities across the state for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects.

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.