Cottonwood County News

A Celebration of Life service for LaVae Donn Thynes, 77, of Storden will be at 10:30 a.m. today at Bethany Lutheran Church, Storden.

Yavapai County Community Health Services will hold an H1N1 vaccination clinic Saturday for people at high risk from the swine flu.

Two men have been arrested in Fairmont following a predatory offender check on North North Avenue.

At least one person was injured in a one-vehicle rollover accident on Highway 60 west of Wilder Thursday morning.

The first doses of the injectable H1N1 flu vaccine were administered Thursday to local first responders and health care personnel after Cottonwood-Jackson Community Health Service received a shipment of 300 doses Wednesday.

Flu activity at Jackson County Central schools has been normal so far this fall, according to a report from Superintendent Todd Meyer to the school board Monday.

The Big Buddies program has blossomed over the past year or so adding many small-group activities and connecting Little Buddies with Big Buddy mentors.

A 2002 Buick LeSabre passesnger car, driven by 84-year-old Bessie M. Harder of Mt.

Then the elm bark beetle brought with it the fungal disease - Dutch elm disease - and, starved of nutrients, the trees died and were taken down.

The local Coats for Kids effort has provided winter coats, hats, mittens, boots, gloves and scarves to families in need of these items for six years in Jackson County.

Jackson Countya s Okabena Creek and Lake Flaherty, along with five other lakes in the Des Moines River Basin, are set to join the Minnesota Pollution Control Agencya s 2010 list of impaired waters, bringing the state total to 3,049 on 1,205 lakes and 436 rivers.

Mt. Lake Utilities is upgrading a power line that serves the area east of Cottonwood County Road 1. These improvements to the power plant require that it be shut down for two hours on Sunday, September 27.

A man wanted for attempted murder in Cottonwood County has opted not to waive extradition during an initial court appearance in Massachusetts, according to Cottonwood County Sheriff Jason Purrington.

Veochai Keobouravath appeared in Cottonwood County District Court Tuesday morning, September 8, in connection with the charge.

FOR precipitation didn't dampen the spirits of 4-H'ers getting ready to show their animals at the Cottonwood County Fair.

CHELSEY FAST, DAUGHTER of Chuck and Suzanne Fast of rural Bingham Lake, and a Cottonwood County Dairy Princess, is one of 12 finalists for the title of Princess Kay of the Milky Way.

Mud and car parts will be flying through the air Wednesday, August 19, as the 2009 Cottonwood County Fair Demolition Derby lends its usual opening day spark.

The Cottonwood County Extension Home Council is inviting its past, present and future members to join them during the Cottonwood County Fair next week to reflect on how the extension has been and will continue to be a part of their lives.

Services for Virgel Osland, 67, of Ottertail, were July 23, 2009, at Zion Lutheran Church in Amor.

A QUARTET OF Mt. Lake area cancer survivors take their lap among the luminarias lining the path at Tegels Park along the shores of Cottonwood Lake in Windom Friday evening.