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A two-vehicle accident on Highway 75 north of Crookston on March 17 sent one driver to the hospital. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, a 2017 Ford F-150, driven by Terrance Lee Sonju, 58, of Red Lake Falls, and a 2018 Ford Transit Van, driven by Bridgette Renee Zobeck, 50, of Watkins, were southbound on Highway 75 near mile post 329 in Fanny Township and were traveling at highway speeds when the Ford van drove into the Ford F-150 causing a collision.

Polk County Environmental Services has opened a costshare grant program that is available to property owners in Polk County that have an existing non-compliant septic system. Funds are intended to fix septic systems that are currently failing codes or functionality. These dollars are made possible through a grant received from the Minnesota Clean Water Legacy Act.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Federal prosecutors plan to appeal a ruling that overturned the death sentence for a Minnesota man convicted of kidnapping and killing a University of North Dakota student.

NAYTAHWAUSH, Minn. (AP) — State officials are investigating a shooting involving a sheriff's deputy in northwestern Minnesota.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The last musher has arrived in Nome, ending the 50th running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race across Alaska. Brent Sass, a Minnesota native now living in Eureka, Alaska, won the race Tuesday.

Crookston Housing & Economic Development Authority Director Robert Barnes told the board at their March 15 meeting that he has made contact with former coffee shop owner Jerry Snow of Chickadee Coffee and conversations about Chickadee's outstanding loans will continue with possible interference (if needed) from City Attorney/Interim City Administrator Corky Reynolds, who was recently appointed as CHEDA's new attorney. Barnes also brought up the equipment that remains inside the former coffee shop on University Avenue and asked the board to consider the three options he had re searched which included: (1) hosting a live auction that would cost them money; (2) accepting an offer for $2,000 from a consignment shop that would move everything out; or (3) doing an online auction and if items don't sell they'd be responsible for disposing of anything left.

Dan Juhl of Hybrid Energy LLC spoke to the Crookston City Council at their March 14 meeting about a proposal for renewable energy for the city that would lead to $25,000 a year for 20 years geared toward rural and economic development with no requirements and no tax abatements - "purely a give." The community based energy source would use solar and wind energy that would transfer through transmission lines to a local substation that could then be distributed to farms, schools, small businesses and homes.