BY KATE MACDONALD
Dale Vangrevenhof
There is a saying that you never truly know what you have until you lose it.
What Dale Vangrevenhof had was a job. What he lost was much more.
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BY KATE MCDONALD
Like many of the students he teaches, Ruben Alvarez knows what it’s like to move around.
As the child of migrant workers Alvarez’s family moved back and forth from Texas to Minnesota, year after year, following the sugar beet crop. It wasn’t until he was in the 10th grade that Alvarez’s family settled...
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BY KATE MCDONALD
Uncertainty is rising around how the Northfield City Council will vote later this month to pay for a new combined Police and Fire “Safety Station.”
The assigned Mayor’s Task Force for the Safety Station concluded in late August that the proposed facility should be paid for with a property tax hike, but the...
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BY KATE MCDONALD
A new program to reduce drug abuse among area young people is targeting not the youths themselves but rather their parents.
Specifically the program takes aim at the sloppy way that many adults dispose of their extra prescription drugs, or leaves them around for children to pick up and start using.
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BY KATHERINE MCDONALD
Emotions ran high during a Northfield community meeting on Sept. 28, at which neighborhood residents expressed concerns over plans to establish a halfway house in a residential area of Northfield.
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