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Submitted The 16th annual NAMIWalks Minnesota, a 5K walk to raise awareness about mental illnesses and celebrate hope, is set for Saturday, September 24, at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis. NAMIWalks supports the efforts of NAMI Minnesota (National Alliance on Mental Illness) to provide education, support, and advocacy for children and adults with mental illnesses and their families.

Submitted Filing for Office began on Tuesday, August 2 and will close on Tuesday, August 16. As of 4 pm on Tuesday, August 2, Clayton L.

Submitted After working 31 years at the post office, it is not a stretch to say that most Crookston citizens know Larry Regan, life-long Crookston resident. Larry is the oldest of six children in his family, including three other brothers and two sisters.

Minnesota Department of Revenue ST. PAUL, Minn.

UMN Extension Submitted Crookston, MN. (August 4, 2022) - The University of Minnesota Extension is excited to announce that up to 42 Minnesota FFA chapters can join Team Soybean! Participating chapters will receive a complimentary soybean cyst nematode (SCN) soil sampling kit, learn valuable skills and help Minnesota soybean producers - all while having fun! This program, sponsored by the Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council, will introduce the next generationof crop producers and ag service providers to SCN, a microscopic worm that both parasitizes soybean roots and is the most yield limiting pathogen of soybean.

Local organization donating soy-based shoes to frontline health care workers MN Soybean County Submitted CROOKSTON – From farm to frontline, the Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council (MSR&PC) is taking another giant leap forward to highlight environmentally friendly investments from the soybean checkoff. Polk County, in partnership with MSR&PC, which directs the state’s soybean checkoff resources, is launching the Stepping Up campaign to amplify farmer profitability and promote the value-added uses of the “miracle bean” while making community connections.

Submitted by Hillary Stevens Lake Agassiz Regional Library MOORHEAD, MINNESOTA - The Fertile Public Library's Resolute Readers Book Club will meet this month to discuss Every Note Played by Lisa Genova, in which an accomplished concert pianist is diagnosed with a paralyzing disease and must come to depend on his ex-wife. The group will meet at the library on Wednesday, August 17 at 5:30 p.m.

Submitted Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., is pleased to be hosting the Minnesota All-State Band Camp and All-State Jazz Band Camp Aug. 2-6.