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Cottage Grove in state of emergency after latest severe storms
COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. — The mayor of Cottage Grove declared a state of emergency early Friday morning due to damage from the latest powerful storm to sweep across the Twin Cities this week. Mayor Myron Bailey says property owners should contact their insurance company if there's any damage. The city will not enter private property to remove trees or debris.Cottage Grove will be conducting curbside pick-up of private debris. Residents need to place tree debris at the curb by Sunday. The city will also be removing or trimming trees along public streets.There were several reports of tornadoes on Thursday...
RAW VIDEO: Minnesota Storm Damage
The Weather Channel's raw video of various locations of storm damage. It includes trees and power lines down all over Cottage Grove, MN from storms Thursday evening. Power was out in many places. Also, storm damage in Wilson, WI as a tornado-warned storm moved through the area. At the home of Jean Jirasek there were 9 trees taken down, an out building lost it's roof and some roof damage to the main home. Then, in Gaylord, MN drone footage timelapse of shelf cloud in Gaylord. The Weather Channel says that this storm was severe warned at the time and then moved on into the Minneapolis area. Credit: The Weather Channel // Charles Peek.
Thursday crash injured Austin driver
NORTH MANKATO, Minn. – A Mower County man was hurt in a Thursday crash in Nicollet County. The Minnesota State Patrol says it happened around 6:13 pm on eastbound U.S. Highway 14. The crash report says Cham Abella Nyigow, 41 of Austin, lost control of his 2006 Ford Taurus near the intersection with Highway 169 and went into the ditch.
Becker's offense runs all over Hill-Murray in football program's 400th victory
BECKER — The official statistic will have to wait until yardage is tallied in the morning, but on Thursday when the Becker football program and coach Dwight Lundeen won for the 400th time, the Bulldogs were also gunning for 400 yards of offense. The Bulldogs won 51-0 against Hill-Murray in Week 1 of Minnesota's high school football season. ...
After Storms Local Garden Center Opens Up Sunflower Field For Free
With the recent stormy weather that has come through the area, people have had to clean up fallen debris like limbs and branches that had fallen. One local garden center is opening up their sunflower field through September 2nd for no charge after storms rolled through and flattened much of the new flowers.
SNAP recipients to get ‘replacement’ benefits for outages caused by Tropical Storm Ernesto
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Virgin Islands Department of Human Services announced Thursday the issuance of replacement benefits for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients affected by prolonged power outages caused by Tropical Storm Ernesto. According to DHS, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has approved...
Local farm ready for autumn despite setback from summer weather
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) - Autumn is on it’s way and many local farms are preparing fall produce such as pumpkins and gourds. But with the extreme rainfall over the summer, some farms are behind schedule including Little Green Wagon here in Mankato. Little Green Wagon farm has been serving...
Minnesota suffers embarrassing technical error in stadium as staff blunder despite college football team losing
THE Minnesota Golden Gophers went out with a bang in their season-opener against North Carolina – but not in the way they had hoped. Minnesota kicker Dragan Kesich missed a 47-yard game-winning field goal attempt as time expired at Huntington Bank Stadium on Thursday. But in an embarrassing blunder, fireworks were set off at the facility […]
West Nile virus kills 2 in Wisconsin; Cases on the rise in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS — There is a rise in West Nile virus cases in our region.It's killed two people in Wisconsin and sent another to the hospital. In addition, three people in Minnesota recently tested positive for the virus. West Nile is transmitted by mosquitoes and late summer is when cases peak. "It's been terrible, and we just finished our basement so every day I go down there and make sure there is nothing coming up," said Jeff Noyes, of Woodbury. Unlike the past couple of years, there's no shortage of rain this summer. And wherever there's standing water, there's bound to be mosquitoes. "When I'm golfing,...
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