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| 07/24/2008 |
3M CHEMICALS CLEAN UP
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency wants to hear from the public about a proposed plan to clean up contamination at a 3M disposal site in Woodbury. The property has several former dump areas where the company legally disposed of manufacturing waste in the 1960's. The site is one of four suspected of contaminating drinking water with perflourochemicals, or PFC's. The MPCA recommends continuing to use and existing groundwater pump-out system. Under the plan, 3M also would excavate soils that contain PFCs. A public meeting on the plan is being held tonight (Thursday) at the Woodbury city offices. The public comment period will end August 22nd.
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LITCHFIELD PROPERTY PROPOSAL
The Litchfield City Council this week voted to purchase the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall and two adjoining lots from VFW Post 2818. The West Central Tribune reports the city will pay $446,000 for the property, which will be used as the site of a new fire hall and rescue squad facility. Mayor Vern Madson says plans for upgrading the fire department and rescue squad have been discussed for several years and added that the rescue squad's building in particular, is in "bad shape."
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HIGHWAY 15 ROUNDABOUT UPDATE
Storm sewer construction is now complete at the Highway 15/North High Drive roundabout construction site in Hutchinson. MnDot officials say crews have finished excavating material from the intersection and will continue to bring in granular backfill. Crews will install drain tile along the edges and "tolerance" the grade and prepare it for gravel. The concrete paver is also scheduled for this week. Crews will pave the south end of the project first and continue north. The project is expected to be completed by mid-August.
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| 07/23/2008 |
INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT
OSHA is investigating an industrial accident that seriously injured a rural Hutchinson man last Wednesday afternoon. 59-year-old Richard "Dick" Kosek fell into a "screener" at the city's Creekside compost facility and became caught in the machine used for processing compost materials. He was taken to the Hutchinson emergency room and was then transferred to Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis and is listed in satisfactory condition. A family member says Kosek had surgery Monday and is recovering quite well.
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ULTRALIGHT FATALS
Two Minnesota men have died in two separate ultralight plane crashes. In Sauk Centre Township Monday, 70-year-old Richard Eidem of Osakis died when his ultralight crashed on Lynx National Golf Course shortly after 8pm. Less than a half hour earlier, 55-year-old Daniel Chisholm, of Ideal Township, died when his ultralight crashed into a field near Pequot Lakes. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating both crashes.
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PARK WORKER MURDER
The man accused of killing a state park worker in southwestern Minnesota more than seven years ago goes on trial today (Wednesday). Randy Swaney is charged with killing Carrie Nelson during a May 2001 burglary at Blue Mounds State Park near Luverne, where Nelson worked. Jury selection is set to begin this morning in Rock County District Court in Luverne.
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| 07/22/2008 |
CHARGES EXPECTED IN FATAL STABBING
Charges are expected today (Tuesday) against a 17-year-old suspected in the stabbing death of a Willmar man. Kandiyohi County Attorney Boyd Beccue says prosecutors were still meeting with police investigators Monday and had not decided on specific charges against the teen. He is being held at Prairie Lakes Youth Programs, where he was taken after he and another 17-year-old were arrested. The other 17-year-old has been released. Police say 21-year-old Adam Kenneth Milton was stabbed after a fight and was pronounced dead at a hospital.
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CRASH VICTIM IDENTIFIED
Authorities have released the name of the 16-year-old that died after a one-vehicle crash near Watertown Saturday afternoon. He's identified as Aaron Kelzer of Mayer. Carver County Sheriff Bud Olson says the crash occurred just before 2pm on Carver County Road 123 when Kelzer left the roadway, struck a power pole, and then rolled the vehicle. Kelzer died at HCMC Saturday evening.
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RELAY FOR LIFE
Volunteers raised over $100,000 this past weekend in Norwood-Young America. Officials with the Relay For Life say that as of Saturday morning, $102,000 was donated for the annual event. Officials say there's still time to donate to the cause. Donations will be taken through August 31st. For information or to donate you can go to the website www.cancer.org. Relay For Life events represent the hope that those lost to cancer will never be forgotten, that those who face cancer will be supported, and that one day cancer will be eliminated.
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