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2024 Area Farm Families of the Year
The University of Minnesota Extension Office has named its Farm Families of the Year for 2024. The Crow River Farms LLC of Litchfield has been named Meeker County’s “2024 Farm Family of the Year” by the University of Minnesota. Crow River Farms was purchased in 1976 by...
Litchfield public hearing 7/22/24: Heritage Preservation Commission
A public hearing will be held by the Heritage Preservation Commission on Monday, July 22 nd , 2024 at approximately 6:30 p.m., in the City Council Chambers of City Hall, 126 North Marshall Avenue, at which time you may submit your views on the matter in person, by writing or by representative.
Man believed to have been stabbed, struck by car, Meeker County sheriff says
A 50-year-old Olivia, Minn., man is believed to have been stabbed and struck by a vehicle Friday in what the Meeker County Sheriff's Office says was a targeted attack. Sheriff's deputies arrived at the scene in Litchfield Township, along 600th Avenue near 230th Street, after 5 p.m. and found the man in a ditch with serious injuries, listed as "an apparent stab wound and injuries consistent with being struck by a vehicle," according to a sheriff's news release Saturday.
Meeker County Pickup Crash Sends Three to the Hospital
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP (WJON News) -- Three people were hurt in a single-vehicle crash near Kimball. The Meeker County Sheriff's Office responded to the 74000 block of County Road 19 in Kingston Township just before 4:00 p.m. Monday. Deputies say a pickup driven by 45-year-old Wade Davison of Monticello went off...
Three hurt in pickup crash near Watkins
(Watkins MN-) Three people were hurt when a pickup crashed near Watkins Monday afternoon. The Meeker County Sheriff's Department says at 3:47 p.m. they received a report of an injury crash in the 74000 block of County Road 19, Kingston Township. A pick-up truck driven by 45-year-old Wade Davison of Monticello was traveling south on County Road 19 when the vehicle left the roadway and hit a tree. Davison was extricated from the vehicle and airlifted to Saint Cloud Hospital by Life Link III Air Ambulance. The front seat passenger, 42-year-old Jacob Holly of Dassel was taken by ambulance to Saint Cloud Hospital, and a minor passenger was taken to Saint Cloud Hospital by Watkins Ambulance. A injuries are believed to be non-life threatening.
Crash sends three people to St. Cloud Hospital
A pick-up truck rammed into a tree on Monday, sending the driver and two passengers to St. Cloud Hospital. According to Meeker Sheriff Brian Cruze of Meeker County, a vehicle traveling south on County Road 19 in Kingston Township left the road and hit a tree. The injury-accident call came into the Meeker County Sheriff's Office at around 3:45 p.m., June 24. ...
Three Injured in Meeker Co Crash
A driver and two passengers were injured in a one-vehicle crash in Meeker County Monday afternoon northeast of Kingston. The Sheriff’s Office says 45-year-old Wade Davison of Monticello was extricated from the vehicle and airlifted to St. Cloud Hospital for treatment. Forty-two-year-old Jacob Holly of Dassel and a minor,...
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