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Columns - 12 years of reporting create a lifetime of memories

As I sat down to my computer, fingers poised upon my keyboard, I was motionless, not knowing what to type, what to say, who to thank or how to put into words what I am feeling.

Speed, safety trigger traffic control ideas

Motorists are soon going to see changes at four different intersections in Douglas County.

• County Roads 45 and 82
• County Roads 40 and 8
• County Road 46 and Pioneer Road

Capital campaign formed for proposed new high school

Another step has been taken in the effort to build a new high school in Alexandria.

Salvation Army gets $49K

There may be help for residents in the Douglas County area needing assistance with rent, mortgage payments or utilities.

• Jennie Hevern

SunOpta burns 29 hours

29 hours. 11 departments. 75 to 100 firefighters. 100-plus gallons of foam 1.1 million gallons of water. More than $1 million in damage.

• Debris coated with ice
• 11 departments help with fire
• Bucket truck
• Fighting fire behind the fence

Is danger lurking in your home?

It is odorless, colorless and tasteless. It can cause lung cancer. And every home in Minnesota should be tested every two to five years for it.

Treacherous roads challenge county crews

It’s been a tough winter – not just for motorists, but also for those who are trying their best to keep the hundreds of miles of roads around the county safe.

• Icy roads

Mussels found in Victoria

Late last fall, Dave Rush received a phone call from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Rush, the Douglas County Land and Resource Management director, learned that zebra mussels had been found in Lake Victoria.

• Channel

Behind every crash statistic is a story

Every community, unfortunately, has to endure losses from time to time. And some of those losses are the result of a tragic traffic crash. But behind every tragedy – every face – there is a story.

• Kelsey Kjos
• Dennis Dumm
• www.minnesotacrashvictims.org

On schedule, on budget

The incinerator project at Pope Douglas Solid Waste Management (PDSWM) is right on schedule – and on budget.

• PDSWM

Columns

Column - A new reporter in town?

I think I might have some competition in the world of writing. Before the school year ended, I had the privilege of being interviewed by Alexis Habberstad, who attends Brandon Elementary School.

Column – Blessed with a teenager

The other day, while sitting at my computer pondering what I was going to write about, I asked my son if I could write about him. Thinking he would be embarrassed to have his mother write about him in the newspaper, I kind of asked as a joke.