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Mayo program combines training, field experience in hopes to alleviate shortage
As Minnesota searches for answers to the current EMT shortage, a Mayo Clinic Ambulance Service program is well on its way in helping fill those vital positions. Launched earlier this summer, the EMT-in-Training Program aims to combine both training and field experience to create a home-grown talent initiative that will contribute almost immediately. The first […] The post Mayo program combines training, field experience in hopes to alleviate shortage appeared first on Albert Lea Tribune.
“Autism Mom” will lead State Fair craft-making activity to create “an army of advocates” for kids on the spectrum
On Sunday August 25 from 10 am to noon, Sheletta Brundidge is inviting all Minnesota families to join her family at the Alphabet Forest in Baldwin Park on the State Fairgrounds.
Viral Harris-Walz camo hat injects Midwest glam into US campaign
If campaign hat sales are any predictor of electoral results, the Harris-Walz ticket is in great shape, as their camouflage cap with orange lettering goes viral. In part, the virality of the camo hat can be attributed to Chappell Roan, the wildly popular singer who sells a camo hat with orange lettering that reads "Midwest Princess."
Rangers ready to forget how last season ended
MOUNTAIN IRON—The end of the 2023 football season left a bad taste in the mouth of the Mountain Iron-Buhl football team. The Rangers made it back to the state tournament in hopes of defending their Prep Bowl title from 2022. Instead, they were stunned 12-8 in the state quarterfinals against Nevis with the Tigers eventually going on to win the Prep Bowl themselves. As MI-B returns to the gridiron with...
GIANTS AIM FOR ANOTHER BIG YEAR
AURORA—Two seasons ago, there wasn’t a whole lot that was going right for the Mesabi East football team. Finishing with a 2-7 record and a first round playoff exit, the Giants had a tall task ahead of them in order to turn things around in 2023. And last year’s Giants were up to that task, going 8-2 on the year before falling in a heartbreaker to traditional 7AA power Moose Lake/Willow River. ...
Norse ranked No. 5 ahead of 2024 season
VIRGINIA—The Minnesota North—Mesabi Range football team has reason to be excited coming into this season. The Norse enter the year ranked fifth in the nation in the NJCAA Division III football poll. While the number next to their name may help boost their confidence somewhat, veteran head coach Tom Inforzato says the ranking doesn’t have any importance to his team as they continue through fall camp and get ready for their season opener. ...
Inflation Reduction Act creates thousands of union jobs in Minnesota — and other labor news
Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly round-up of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. This week: the Inflation Reduction Act’s impact on jobs two years on; what to make of the jobs numbers revision; Minnesota is No. 1 state for nurses; Kim’s will shutter shortly after union vote; and Canadian railway workers […]
AOC: Tim Walz’s Non-Weird Masculinity Is Driving Trump, Vance “Nuts”
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Stephen Colbert on Thursday that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is driving Donald Trump and J.D. Vance “nuts.” “I think that Trump and Vance, they think they have some kind of like, monopoly over masculinity,” Ocasio-Cortez said on The Late Show. The Republican nominees have been freaking out ever since Walz first called them “weird” a few weeks ago, and have responded by desperately attacking the Minnesota governor’s son, wife, military history, and governing record. “Walz has kinda shown up—he’s a football coach, he was the head of the gay-straight alliance as the football coach,” Ocasio-Cortez...
Harris-Walz Ticket Sharpens Contrast With Trump-Vance on Health Care
Vice President Kamala Harris’ selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate is making health care a front-burner issue in the final sprint to the November presidential election. Walz, a 60-year-old former high school teacher and football coach, has a record of supporting left-leaning health care initiatives...
Serenity Crego's Fine Arts Gallery holds grand opening, ribbon cutting
Serenity Crego's Fine Arts Gallery hosted a grand opening and ribbon cutting on Thursday at the business located at 1811 3rd Ave. E. in Hibbing. Serenity has created a cozy place filled with her stunning oil paintings from animals to our local surrounding town of Hibbing to so much more. Pictured left to right:Melba Silver - Family member, Sarah Elofson - Family Member, Serenity Crego - Business Owner, Christopher Crego - Family Member, Shelly Hanson - Hibbing Area Chamber President, Gabriella Hauser - Hibbing Area Chamber representative.
Thunderhawks Cross Country Season Preview
Brenden Sylvester returns after his state tournament appearance in 2023. Sylvester saved his best for last, when the lights were the brightest, turning in a personal record of 17:05 in the MSHSL AA State Championship 5000 meter race as a sophomore - 65th overall of 159 entries. Katelyn Carlson, an eighth-grade phenom, returns to varsity after a MSHSL AA State Tournament appearance as well - as a seventh-grader. Not to be outdone by Sylvester, Carlson also recorded her personal record time in the 5000 meters last season in the most important race of her life, finishing 58th overall out of 160 runners with a time of 19:59.3. You can expect more championship level running out of this pair once again this year. The Thunderhawks cross country team is coached by Steve Kohorst and Patty CarlinJanssen, and will hit the ground running next Wednesday against Virginia, at Virginia Golf Course.
Fill the Hill brings in over 800 people
The Grand Rapids High School Marching Band debuted its new program for the public on Wednesday, Aug. 21 at the Noble Hall Field. Fill the Hill is an open rehearsal to show parents and community members this year’s performance. This was the 31st year that Fill the Hill occurred in Grand Rapids, MN. Dale Gunderson, Band Director at Grand Rapids High School, started Fill the Hill 31 years ago when it looked a little different. The name Fill the Hill came from viewers sitting on...
Search Continues for Missing Minnesota Veteran From Itasca County – Cops Need YOUR Help!
ST. CLOUD, MN – Authorities in Itasca County, Minnesota are seeking public assistance in locating Caleb Bolin, a 40-year-old veteran who has been missing for over two weeks. Bolin was last seen leaving his workplace in St. Cloud on the morning of Tuesday, August 6, between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.
Perplexing pickleball vandalism will cost district thousands to repair
GRAND RAPIDS — A baffling act of vandalism on Grand Rapids School District grounds has the tennis program in a bit of a pickle. Superintendent Matt Grose said it started in late July when a buildings and grounds employee asked if anyone in the district had okayed the painting of a pickleball court on the tennis courts.
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