The Paul Bunyan Drug Task Force last week released a fourth quarter 2021 snapshot of activities. The following are the incidents in October, November and December that involved Koochiching County. A complete quarterly snapshot posting at www.co.beltrami.mn.us/pbtf
After more than four decades, a longtime Rainy Lake Medical Center employee is ready for the next chapter in her life. Sue DeBenedet will retire Jan.
Project REACH - Rural Experts Advancing Community Health – is now recruiting its next cohort of Project REACH participants. Project REACH is a year-long health policy and leadership training program for community leaders in rural Minnesota.
CO Darrin Kittelson (International Falls #1) reports overall outdoor activity has been slow with the cold weather, but continuing snow falls have put the area snowmobile trails in great shape. Good job groomers! Ice fishing bite on Rainy Lake has been slow, typical January.
CWD is a contagious neurological disease that affects cervids – deer, elk, moose, reindeer and caribou. There is no cure or vaccine, and the disease always is fatal. It causes the brain of the infected animal to deteriorate, which eventually results in emaciation, abnormal behavior, loss of bodily functions and death. CWD is a prion disease and is in the same family as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), scrapie (sheep) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (humans).
The Minnesota Department of Revenue has opened the state individual income tax filing season. It coincides with the Internal Revenue Service’s federal filing period.
Chapter 40 After getting ashore and getting the outboard motors cleaned of sand, and the evening meal, they wondered what challenges were to come. The next morning the boys decided it would be a good idea to take the skiff and a pike pole and run ahead to sound out the channel.
Friday, January 28 15 years ago Between its birth and the evolution of today’s Major League baseball were the glory days of small town baseball. The golden era of the amateur game from 1945 to 1960 is described as a “magical time of outstanding ball playing attended by record-breaking crowds” in the recently released “Town Ball: The Glory Days of Minnesota Amateur Baseball.” Borderland’s team of that era was called the International Falls “Mandos,” an acronym for its sponsor, the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company which was originally owned by baseball zealot E.W.
Last July a tiny kitten was discovered on the steps of a church in Ada, Minn. The people who found it could see it was sick and needed help. They contacted Paws and Claws and took it to the nearest vet clinic, all the way to Fargo, N.D.
Ask Amy: Secrets could divide sisters during stressful time Dear Amy: I am very close to my sister, “Cari,” who lives nearby. I’m not married, I do not have children, and our parents are both deceased.