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Letter - Response to 'A prescription for trouble'
The Minnesota Pharmacist’s Foundation founded AWARxE in 2009 to combat prescription drug abuse. The main goal of this program is to educate parents and children about misuse of prescription drugs.
Friday, February, 01, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - Opinion

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Friday, February, 01, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - Entertainment

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Friday, February, 01, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - Faith

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Friday, February, 01, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - Life

As need increases, funding for SNAP decreases
As the Minnesota Nutritious Food Coalition was celebrating its first year of working to increase participation in the state’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the federal government was in the midst of plans to decrease funds that support the educational component of SNAP. More than 500,000 Minnesotans receive nutrition assistance benefits each month.
Wednesday, January, 30, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - News

Former Carlos city treasurer charged with felony theft
More money than you know what to do with, could be the case in Carlos. The equivalent of an average person’s salary went missing between February 2011 and June 2012. After reviewing financial records for the city of Carlos, the Minnesota Office of the State Auditor (OSA) discovered that the former city treasurer received a total of $34,585.31 in unauthorized city checks.
Wednesday, January, 30, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - News

VIDEO: JHS winter band concert reigned
Hot tunes. Cool night. Jefferson High School’s annual winter band concert hit all the right notes. Family and music fans poured into the high school gymnasium, filling the bleachers as freezing rains poured down outside Monday night.
Wednesday, January, 30, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - News

1637297 Public Notice - Alexandria Township Resolution

Wednesday, January, 30, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - Public Notices

Column - 1913: Pumpkin is stamped and tagged; eggs are mailed to Minneapolis
JANUARY 1988 Steve Nelson of Brandon luckily escaped possible death when his 10-ton tractor equipped with a rotary snowplow crashed through the ice on Lake Chippewa.
Wednesday, January, 30, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - Opinion

I'm Just Sayin' - Gun salesman of the year: Barack Obama
Have you been to Cabela’s or Fleet Farm lately? Did you notice the firearms racks or the ammunition shelves? They are virtually empty — all due to Washington, D.C. taking advantage of the latest “crisis” to push forward Executive Orders and potential legislation about the legality of certain firearms, their components, and ammunition.
Wednesday, January, 30, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - Opinion

No place like home: Douglas County Sheriff's Office opens doors at permanent location
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office staff will all be under one roof for the first time since the summer of 2011. Welcome to the new, long-awaited, Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. County residents were greeted by sheriff’s office staff as they hurried through the front doors and stomped snow off of their feet before emerging into the redesigned lobby.
Friday, January, 25, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - News

A prescription for trouble
Locally, there’s an increase in heroin use. “We have a big problem that we see on the horizon and we need to get [information] out there as quickly as possible,” Douglas County Attorney Chad Larson told the Echo Press on Tuesday. “We can’t ignore it.”
Friday, January, 25, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - News

Echo Press hires new web developer
Bridget Braun has left the city lights behind her to return to her family’s old stomping grounds of Alexandria. Braun moved to the area in November from Coon Rapids to take on the hybrid role of web developer/graphic designer/Internet technology support guru at the Echo Press.
Friday, January, 25, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - Business

Column - How many diplomas come courtesy of SparkNotes?
How many students actually read the novels they are assigned to read? Not as many as should, I would guess. It seems we’re galloping headlong into some kind of Post-Literate Age in which words — pitifully butchered words — are used for texting, mainly.
Friday, January, 25, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - Opinion

It's Our Turn: If you want to be 'unique,' take a look at what's inside
In today’s world, where anything is made possible through millions of products, I wonder if anyone is truly happy with their physical appearance. Are you?
Friday, January, 25, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - Opinion

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Friday, January, 25, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - Entertainment

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Friday, January, 25, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - Life

Concerns about library internet use discussed at commissioners' meeting
Fifteen cents. That’s how much it costs to print a page off the Internet at the Douglas County Library. Fifteen cents is part of what brought one citizen to Tuesday’s commissioners’ meeting. He disagreed with some of the library’s practices; Internet use was one point he argued.
Thursday, January, 24, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - News

Life ingrained in death: Garfield carpenter crafts pine caskets
Just put me in a pine box. It’s been said by many and sung by some, too. Roger Rosengren took that phrase to heart eight years ago when a fellow carpenter handed him a drawing and asked him to make a casket for his wife.
Wednesday, January, 23, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - Life

Column - 1963: Stag event opened to women because of indignant demands
JANUARY 2003 A plan to improve 50th Avenue to clear the way for future development has been put on hold.
Wednesday, January, 23, 2013 - Alexandria Echo Press - Opinion

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