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Alexandria girls golf team members (left to right) Rachel Bowen, Aisling O'Connor, Cora Larson, Lauren Rebrovich, Hannah Boraas, Isabella Hagen and head coach Tim Zupfer are all smiles after winning the Class AAA state championship at the Bunker Hills Golf Club on June 16, 2021. The Cardinals tied a school-record team score of 303 on the second day of the tournament to run away with the title by 22 strokes over Maple Grove after a two-day score of 622. (Eric Morken / Echo Press)

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Alexandria girls win program’s fourth state championship, first at Class AAA level

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Gospel singer salvages lyrics from poems dad wrote on the walls of his Minnesota dairy barn

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Fees from Osakis clean up efforts to help pay for this year's Fourth of July fireworks

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This paver patio, at the home of Kent and Natalie Annis, was constructed without a permit. It will now have to be removed. This photo, which was included in the packet of information provided to the Douglas County commissioners, was taken in September of 2020. (Contributed photo)

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Lake Miltona property owners ordered to remove patio, retaining wall after building it without proper permits

Osakis senior Matthew Ramey powders a clay during the Class 2A championship at the Alexandria Shooting Park on June 15, 2021. Ramey led Osakis with an 89 out of a possible 100. More than 300 teams and 6,500 student athletes will shoot in Alexandria at the Minnesota State High School Clay Target League's championship from June 14-22 at the Alexandria Shooting Park. (Eric Morken / Echo Press)

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Trap shooters converge in Alexandria as Osakis shoots with Class 2A teams on Tuesday

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Paige Rupp chips towards the ninth green in the Class AA girls golf tournament on June 16, 2021. Rupp's two-day score of 204 helped Minnewaska-BBE finish fourth as a team at Ridges at Sand Creek in Jordan. (Jared Rubado / Echo Press)

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Alexandria girls win program’s fourth state championship, first at Class AAA level

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Minnesota Pollution Control Commissioner Laura Bishop, right, speaks at the Zeus Electric Chassis headquarters in White Bear Lake, Minn., on Wednesday, June 16, 2021. (Matthew Guerry / Forum News Service)

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This paver patio, at the home of Kent and Natalie Annis, was constructed without a permit. It will now have to be removed. This photo, which was included in the packet of information provided to the Douglas County commissioners, was taken in September of 2020. (Contributed photo)

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Lake Miltona property owners ordered to remove patio, retaining wall after building it without proper permits

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Catrin Wigfall, a policy fellow at the Center for the American Experiment, speaking in Alexandria on June 15, accused advocates of critical race theory of rejecting what she calls the "founding principals of the United States," such as capitalism and private property ownership. (Karen Tolkkinen / Echo Press)

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Critical race theory meeting fills Alexandria conference room

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Fees from Osakis clean up efforts to help pay for this year's Fourth of July fireworks

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Osakis senior Matthew Ramey powders a clay during the Class 2A championship at the Alexandria Shooting Park on June 15, 2021. Ramey led Osakis with an 89 out of a possible 100. More than 300 teams and 6,500 student athletes will shoot in Alexandria at the Minnesota State High School Clay Target League's championship from June 14-22 at the Alexandria Shooting Park. (Eric Morken / Echo Press)

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Trap shooters converge in Alexandria as Osakis shoots with Class 2A teams on Tuesday

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Minnesota sets date for first early teal-hunting season in state history

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Fred Walter with his two new CDs. (Lowell Anderson / Echo Press)

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Gospel singer salvages lyrics from the walls of his father's Osakis dairy barn

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Restart for Art DeTour event in Douglas, Otter Tail counties

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Honky Tonk Stardust Cowboys to play classic country at the Concert on the Courthouse Lawn in Alexandria

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18-year-old Alexandria man sues Douglas County sheriff as part of a challenge to Minnesota's gun laws

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2 Minnesota men arrested for alleged involvement in U.S. Capitol riot

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Man found guilty in 2018 shooting death of retired Lake Park police chief

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Bids Publish June 16, 18, 2021 Hudson Township Douglas County, Minnesota INVITATION FOR BIDS FOR MAINTENANCE OF TOWNSHIP ROADS 1.

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Summons Publish June 16, 23, 30, 2021 STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF DOUGLAS IN DISTRICT COURT SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASE TYPE: QUT COURT FILE NO.

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Sealed Bids Publish June 16, 18, 23, 2021 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Bids for: Warehouse Relocation, Alexandria Technical & Community College, Alexandria, MN 56308 will be received by: Alexandria Technical & Community College Room 304, Alexandria, MN 56308 Until 11 am, local time, July 1, 2021 at which time the bids will be opened.

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