WILLMAR
Forum Communications Co. announces 2013 Forum Forward class
FARGO, N.D. -Forum Communications Co.has named its Forum Forward class for 2013, company officials announced Friday. This year's class is comprised of eight individuals, salespeople, reporters, editor...
Posted on 4/12/13 at 1:24 PM
Legislative notebook: Speed limit increase hits a speed bump
Sen. LeRoy Stumpf offered a confession to the Senate Transportation Committee. The Plummer Democrat said he sometimes speeds while traveling his northwest Minnesota district. I bring this bill to ...
Posted on 2/14/12 at 10:50 PM
Everyday heroes
When you're a member ofan ambulance crew, you never quite know what your day will bring. These are medicine's everyday heroes - the emergency medical technicians and paramedics whose work is stressful...
Posted on 5/17/11 at 7:04 AM
1986: Bluejays Take Willmar
This photo of Curtis Bell watching a basketball go out of bounds in a 1986 basketball game against Willmar didn't reproduce as well as I'd hoped. Sorry....
Posted on 2/6/11 at 6:00 PM
Need a dunker? Try a Cruller.
One hot Friday afternoon in October, I learned how to make Crullers. I wasn't at a cooking class. I was getting a private lesson from William (Bill) Strong in his kitchen in Willmar, Minnesota. I h...
Posted on 11/28/10 at 1:01 AM
Economist: Crisis is the big one
WILLMAR — The financial crisis facing the United States and the world is really “the big one,” but that doesn’t mean the world is facing another Great Depression, according to an AgriBank economist who addressed the seventh annual Strategic Animal Ag Conference Friday in Willmar.By Gretchen Schlosser, West Central Tribune , January 19, 2009
Hospital to improve med safety
WILLMAR — New “smart” drug pumps at Rice Memorial Hospital have been alerting nurses to errors — a dose of Dilaudid, a painkiller, that was accidentally programmed for 2 milligrams per hour instead of 0.2 milligrams, for instance — so that the error can be fixed before it reaches the patient.By Anne Polta, West Central Tribune , January 19, 2009
Man threatened family with machete
WILLMAR — A 26-year-old Willmar man pleaded guilty Monday to a felony charge of making terroristic threats for threatening family members with a machete in August.By Gretchen Schlosser, West Central Tribune , January 14, 2009
Teacher wins maltreatment appeal
WILLMAR — A maltreatment ruling against a Willmar special education teacher has been reversed in Kandiyohi County District Court.By Linda Vanderwerf, West Central Tribune , January 13, 2009
Teen faces charges for crime spree
WILLMAR — A 16-year-old Willmar boy pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a felony third-degree burglary charge, plus three lesser charges, for allegedly breaking into two garages, stealing beer and slashing tires on vehicles on Nov. 6 in the southwest quadrant of the city.By Gretchen Schlosser, West Central Tribune , January 08, 2009
Screening for drug-resistant staph
WILLMAR — Hoping to stem the tide of drug-resistant staph, Rice Memorial Hospital has begun screening newly admitted patients for the bacteria.By Anne Polta, West Central Tribune , January 02, 2009
Man's truck goes through ice
WILLMAR - A 73-year-old Willmar man was treated for hypothermia Saturday evening after his pickup truck broke through the ice on Willmar Lake.By West Central Tribune , December 30, 2008
Defense fund started in fox urine case
WILLMAR — Five Kandiyohi County citizens have started a defense fund for Scott Wagar of Willmar.By West Central Tribune , December 17, 2008
Man sprayed pranksters with urine
WILLMAR — A 50-year-old rural Willmar man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor charges stemming from a homecoming week incident that allegedly included spraying toilet-papering teens with a squirt gun filled with fox urine.By Gretchen Schlosser, West Central Tribune , December 11, 2008
Woman assaulted with Coke bottle
WILLMAR — A 24-year-old Willmar woman has been charged with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon for allegedly hitting another woman over the head with a Coca-Cola bottle while they were arguing in a downtown apartment.By Gretchen Schlosser, West Central Tribune , December 09, 2008
Special ed teacher maltreatment
WILLMAR — The difference between delaying access and denying access to a restroom could be a central issue in whether a Willmar teacher is ultimately judged to have committed maltreatment of a child.By Linda Vanderwerf West Central Tribune , December 08, 2008
Hearing for math grad standards
WILLMAR — Minnesota Education Commissioner Alice Seagren is confident that high school juniors will rise to the challenge when they take a new state math test in April. They have to pass it to graduate.By Linda Vanderwerf, West Central Tribune , December 01, 2008
Woman wrote $77K in bad checks
WILLMAR — A 28-year-old Willmar woman pleaded guilty Monday to three felony charges of issuing dishonored checks for writing more than $77,000 in bad checks for two vehicles, a motorcycle, a snowmobile and an all-terrain vehicle.By Gretchen Schlosser, West Central Tribune , November 28, 2008
Cop acquitted of sex charges
WILLMAR — A nine-woman, three-man jury acquitted Paul Reed Schmidt, 35, of Atwater, of two counts of criminal sexual conduct Friday in Kandiyohi County District Court.By Gretchen Schlosser West Central Tribune , November 24, 2008
Cop says breast touch was accident
WILLMAR — Paul Schmidt took the stand Friday morning and testified that he accidentally grabbed the 22-year-old Atwater woman’s breast while they were practicing therapeutic holds and take-down maneuvers during the early morning hours of Oct. 16, 2007 at the Atwater Police Department.By Gretchen Schlosser West Central Tribune , November 21, 2008
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