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Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) Assistant Commissioner Whitney Place has been appointed to serve as the Executive Director of the USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) Minnesota office. Place has been with the MDA since 2012, serving in multiple capacities. In her new post she will oversee operations and agriculture policy implementation in Minnesota.

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The North Dakota State College of Science has named 413 students to its fall semester 2021 President’s Honor List including Ellie Schmitz of Fisher who is majoring in Business Management. The Honor List recognizes students who have achieved grade point averages of 3.5 or higher while taking at least 12 credits with letter grades.

Michelle Cuno of Euclid was recently announced as one of the College of St. Scholastica's Fall 2021 Dean's List recipients. Dean's List members have achieved a 3.75 grade point average or above on a 4.0 scale.

The University of Minnesota Crookston's Office of the Registrar recently announced students named to the fall semester 2021 Chancellor's List. Students named to the Chancellor's List include the following:

New Crookston Housing & Economic Development Authority (CHEDA) director Robert Barnes said one of the first items he was asked to address when he arrived was the former coffee shop on University Avenue and the loan(s) that Chickadee Coffee had through CHEDA, he told the board at their January meeting. Barnes mentioned that the board never took action to forgive the loans or collect proceeds from the loans, and some of the collateral (property) from the former business may or may not still be in the building they were using to store it so he needed some direction.