Mitten, sock, hat donations sought The winter sock-hat-mitten drive continues through the month of December in the Pelcian Rapids area.  The Pelican Rapids High School Honor Society is sponsoring.  Boxes are now in the high school office, in the lobby at the Viking elementary school and at Dollar General.  Items donated at school will go towards our… Read More

Michael A. Guido, D.D. Nine-one-one is the national number to use in the event of an emergency. When we use it, we know someone is there who will come to our rescue. Though we have heard stories of the misuse of that number and reports of incompetent responders answering calls of people in a crisis, it… Read More

NEW ANNUALS FOR  2020 By Bev Johnson, Otter Tail County Master Gardner If you love Calibrachoa, the flowers that look like little petunias, you’ll be over the moon with this year’s selections. The Million Bells Cabaret line has one called Good Night Kiss. This is very dark, bright pink with a white ray center. Another is… Read More

At the Hjemkomst Center on Tuesday, December 17, is HCSCC programming director Markus Krueger.  She will explore  the lives and times of World War I nurses from Clay County.  Markus’s talk will follow a remarkable group of women who served on the western front of the Great War and on the local front of the deadliest… Read More

The county board of commissioners, on Nov. 19, approved plans to build a 200-foot-diameter base recycled glass piling facility. Crushed glass is used for county road projects. The location of the new glass piling facility will be west of Fergus Falls, near the solid waste transfer station. Nearby is the Fergus Falls Municipal Airport. There are six… Read More