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Monthly Archives: April 2020

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Car dealer loses, finds missing car

John VivianApril 29th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. – The Dahl car dealership on Highway 61 reported that a red [...]

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Somebody needed sanitizing bad

John VivianApril 29th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. -- A manager at Winona ORC Industries reported that some hand sanitizer [...]

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Subway reports bad $20 bill

John VivianApril 29th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. -- An employee at Subway, 1488  Gilmore Ave.,  reported being passed  a [...]

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Phone scam: We need $2,700 back

John VivianApril 29th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. -- A man in the 43000 block of Twin Bluffs Drive, downriver [...]

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Wild zig-zag chase on East End

John VivianApril 29th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. – Police say that Divontay Maurice Pinkerton, 27, led them on a [...]

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R.I.P: Isabelle King

John VivianApril 26th, 2020|Categories: News|

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Isabelle T. King, 97, of Winona, who was employed with [...]

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R.I.P.: Barbara Schuler

John VivianApril 22nd, 2020|Categories: News|

WASHINGTON -- Barbara Jean (Seitz) Schuler, 91, who wrote book reviews for the Winona [...]

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R.I.P.: Gordon Ballard

John VivianApril 21st, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. -- Gordon R. Ballard, 95, of Winona, chief financial officer of Standard [...]

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Winona farmer lauded for corn crop

John VivianApril 18th, 2020|Categories: News|

SHAKOPEE, Minn. -- A Winona County farmer, Gary Sobeck, placed third in the state [...]

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President: Moorhead cuts stats-driven

John VivianApril 18th, 2020|Categories: News|

MOORHEAD, Minn. – The president of Moorhead State University Moorhead argued statically that killing [...]

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R.I.P.: LuVerne Majerus

John VivianApril 18th, 2020|Categories: News|

ST. CHARLES, Minn. -- LuVerne Louis Majerus, 94, who operated a Standard Oil franchise [...]

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Trump lauds St. Paul protestors

John VivianApril 18th, 2020|Categories: News|

WASHINGTON – Asked at a news conference about recent protests in state capitals to [...]

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Healthy Sauer residents moved out

John VivianApril 18th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. --Fourteen Sauer nursing home residents who did not test positive for COVID-19 [...]

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Moorhead cuts follow broad study

John VivianApril 18th, 2020|Categories: News|

MOORHEAD, Minn. – The president of Minnesota State Moorhead, Anne Blackhurst, said that major [...]

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R.I.P: Phyllis Passow

John VivianApril 18th, 2020|Categories: News|

FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. -- Phyllis (Rebhahn) Passow, 87, of Fountain City, formerly from Arcadia, [...]

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R.I.P.: Vera Mueller

John VivianApril 18th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA Minn. -- Vera Luella (Claussen) Mueller, 104, of Winona, died at the Sauer [...]

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Centenarian virus survivor dies

John VivianApril 18th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA Minn. – Twelve days after recovering from coronavirus, Vera Mueller, age 104, died [...]

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R.I.P.: Phyllis Passow

John VivianApril 18th, 2020|Categories: News|

FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. -- Phyllis (Rebhahn) Passow, 87 formerly of Arcadia, who worked many years [...]

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COMMENT: The Winona Daily News as weekly

John VivianApril 17th, 2020|Categories: News|

In an age of a disintegrating local newspaper industry, what would the Winona Daily [...]

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ALMANAC

John VivianApril 17th, 2020|Categories: News|

Lee Enterprises, Part 1 A bright young man, Alfred Wilson Lee enrolled at age [...]

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Protesters defy virus safeguards

John VivianApril 17th, 2020|Categories: News|

ST. PAUL, Minn. –About 400 of President Donald Trump's grassroots supporters protested outside the [...]

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Governor OKs carry-out beer, wine

John VivianApril 17th, 2020|Categories: News|

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Gov. Tim Walz signed legislation to allow takeout sales of [...]

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Lanning named top WSU recruiter

John VivianApril 17th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. --Winona State University appointed Gale Lanning as interim director of undergraduate admissions. [...]

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Walz: Go outdoors, be careful

John VivianApril 17th, 2020|Categories: News|

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Gov. Tim Walz relaxed state coronavirus restrictions to allow outdoor [...]

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Radio talker Jason Lewis shows up

John VivianApril 17th, 2020|Categories: News|

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis, a former congressman, made [...]

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Walz: Trump didn’t pick up phone

John VivianApril 17th, 2020|Categories: News|

ST. PAUL, Minn.  – Mystified why President Trump took to social media with a [...]

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Winona virus death count: 8

John VivianApril 17th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. – Two more coronavirus deaths pushed the Winona County tally to eight, [...]

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Cushion possible in Moorhead layoffs

John VivianApril 17th, 2020|Categories: News|

MOORHEAD, Minn. – Layoffs to trim Minnesota State University Moorhead faculty by 14% may [...]

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Anonymous site rallies protests

John VivianApril 17th, 2020|Categories: News|

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Facebook event Liberate Minnesota claimed 550 commitments toparticipate Friday [...]

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UW campus furloughs OK’d

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin regents committee approved employee furloughs systemwide to [...]

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R.I.P.: James Andre

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

ARCADIA, Wis. -- James Dean Andre, 59, of Arcadia, the Town of Arcadia clerk [...]

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R.I.P.: Judy Storm

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. -- Judith M. Storm, 71, of Winona, died at a nursing home [...]

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DeVos backers in anti-Whitmer fog

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

DETROIT – A campaign against Gov. Gretchen Whitmerstay-at-home policy to deal with the coronavirus [...]

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Fastenal retail, online sales down

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. –Industrial supplier Fastenal has locked the doors at its 2,200 U.S. retail [...]

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Seven governors linking on economy

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Gov. Tim Walz has joined a seven-state pact to coordinate [...]

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Whitmer on DeVos: ‘Inappropriate’

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

LANSING, Mich. – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer sees the shadowy hand of  the Michigan Freedom [...]

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Profs’ chief objects to layoffs

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

MOORHEAD, Minn. – The faculty union president at Minnesota State University Moorhead is displeased [...]

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Tech donates medical equipment

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. -- Southeast Tech has donated medical equipment from its simulation labs to [...]

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Summit Avenue protest gather early

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

ST. PAUL, Minn. --Protesters, many with signs and flags, showed up outside the Governor's [...]

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R.I.P: JoAnne Jonsgaard

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. --JoAnne Jonsgaard, 65, of Winona, died at home. She was retired from [...]

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DeVos aide: Us? No way

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- The executive director of the Michigan Freedom Fund, Tony Daunt, [...]

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Online motto: ‘Lives being destroyed’

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A Facebook group going by the name "Liberate Minnesota":is planning [...]

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Grim Winona virus tally now 54

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. -- Winona County diagnoses for coronavirus reached 54, the Minnesota Department of [...]

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Do Trump tweets make sense?

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

WASHINGTON – Political observers found partisanship in President Trump’s tweets that encouraged “liberation rallies” [...]

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Father named in child’s gun wounds

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. -- The Winona County sheriff’s office asked a judge to revoke a [...]

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Moorhead graduations in jeopardy?

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

MOORHEAD, Minn. – A huge scale-back of academic programs at Minnesota State University Moorhead [...]

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R.I.P.: Tina Johnson

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn.  --Tina M. Johnson, 48, of Winona, died at home of cancer. Her [...]

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New busing tack for Winona schools

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA. Minn. --The Winona School Board voted to eliminate a full-time busing director and [...]

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Trump fueling culture wars?

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

WASHINGTON – Political pundit Inae Oh said it’s hard to find a focus in President [...]

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Governor: Stay home another month

John VivianApril 16th, 2020|Categories: News|

MADISON, Wis.— Gov. Tony Evers on Thursday closed Wisconsin schools for the rest of [...]

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Mayor: Stay-at-home order needed

John VivianApril 14th, 2020|Categories: News|

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Mayor Paul TenHaken called on the governor to issue a [...]

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GOP poll: Reopen state businesses

John VivianApril 14th, 2020|Categories: News|

PAUL, Minn. -- State Senate Republicans said an online survey feedback on reopening the [...]

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Museum needs donors to keep going

John VivianApril 14th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. – The Winona Historical Society launched a $180,000 fund-raising project to see [...]

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Insulin makers to pick up tab

John VivianApril 14th, 2020|Categories: News|

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The long-debated Emergency Insulin Bill that’s been debated two years [...]

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ALMANAC

John VivianApril 14th, 2020|Categories: News|

Alec Smith Act The formal name of the new Minnesota law to assure diabetics [...]

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Coronavirus moors Cal Fremling cruises

John VivianApril 14th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. – The Winona State University floating classroom and cruise boat Cal Fremling [...]

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Who says that spring arrives in March in Minnesota?

John VivianApril 13th, 2020|Categories: News|

LEWISTON, Minn. -- Dawn arrived up a coulee near Farmers Park with seven [...]

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Music Fest back to Square 1

John VivianApril 12th, 2020|Categories: News|

WINONA, Minn. – The concert organizing enterprise Mid West Music Fest is scrambling to [...]

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USDA: Your morning bacon OK

John VivianApril 12th, 2020|Categories: News|

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said there is no evidence of [...]

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R.I.P.:Virgil Mehus

John VivianApril 12th, 2020|Categories: News|

RUSHFORD, Minn. – Virgil Irvin Mehus, 88, of Rushford, who managed Valley Video Cable [...]

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