Northwest Regional Corrections Center Arrest Report

Daniel (no middle name provided) Reyes, 69, Crookston, was arrested March 1 by the Crookston Police Department for felony engaging in electronic communication relating or describing sexual conduct with a child. He remains incarcerated.

Crookston High School Speech team competes in Walker

Crookston High School's Speech team competed at Walker-Hackensack-Akeley School on March 5 and four Pirates placed. George French took third place in Humorous Interpretation, Zara Baig and Samantha Rezac took fifth place in Duo Interpretation, and Emily Balboa won a red ribbon.

Diocese of Crookston Bishop Cozzens gives statement on Msgr. Grundhaus and Bishop Hoeppner

In a statement released by the Diocese of Crookston on March 7, The Most Rev. Andrew H. Cozzens, Bishop of Crookston, it was noted that the status of Monsignor Roger Grundhaus of Crookston would remain as it had been since May 2017 in that he would not be permitted to engage in public ministry. The statement also said that the Diocese's Ministerial Review Board concluded that Msgr. Grundhaus had engaged in "inappropriate activity" that showed "poor judgment" and "some level of impropriety with a young man", but did not find sufficient evidence that Grundhaus engaged in behavior that constituted sexual abuse under canon law or a crime under civil law.

Frederick W. Harris

    Dr. Frederick W. Harris, PhD, 94, passed away peacefully at home…

Boll Wins 220 lb State Title

After a fifth-place finish last year, junior Ethan Boll won the 220 lb Class A State Title on Saturday, March 5 in St. Paul, MN.

Crookston native named Top 25 national coach winner

Crookston High School graduate Jordan Wilkens was recently named one of the top 25 national winners in the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) Double-Goal Coach Award presented by TeamSnap because of the impact he's had on student-athletes. Wilkens, who now lives in Milwaukee, told the Times he believes he's the only coach that does adaptive sports on the top 25 list and he's the only coach on the list that is a wheelchair user.

Cavewoman

March 8 is International Women’s Day. Don’t ask me how I know this. I just do. So let us speak of Woman, specifically the International Woman. I like her. Very much. In my opinion She deserves much more than a day. But time waits for no man. Or woman, it seems. So… let’s get to it.