PARKS
Shutdown notebook: Parks first place Minnesotans feel shutdown
The most noticeable impact of Minnesotas government shutdown was predictable: state park users on a holiday weekend. Were 400 miles away from home, said one father at the entrance to Gooseberry Fal...
Posted on 7/2/11 at 9:29 AM
A near catastrophe on a country road
You know how they say curiosity killed the cat? How about those parents who always tell us we must learn from our mistakes? Well, Im kind of thinking both rang a little true in my life this afternoon...
Posted on 3/29/11 at 7:14 PM
1985: Hanging Around at Chautauqua Park
Bryce Negrete swung from the monkey bars at Chautauqua Park in 1985. What was the photographer standing on to take the picture, do you think?...
Posted on 5/29/10 at 1:00 PM
Spencer
I feel something like a traitor when I take my kids to play at a park outside of Worthington. After all, Worthington has in excess of 25 city parks, many of them wonderful - with Chautauqua Park proba...
Posted on 4/18/10 at 4:16 PM
County parks remain closed
WORTHINGTON — Nobles County Parks Superintendent Jerry Braun has announced that county parks, specifically Fury’s Island and Maka-Oicu, will remain closed until further notice.May 01, 2013
Area parks to be on television show
WINDOM — Pioneer Public Television will premiere a brand new parks production, “Great Minnesota Parks: Southwest”, featuring Pipestone National Monument, Lake Shetek State Park and Jeffers Petroglyphs.April 25, 2013
Letter: We all must pitch in to keep our parks clean
By Roger E. Nelson, Worthington , February 28, 2013
Worthington's Mitchell Benson memorialized with bench
WORTHINGTON — Classmates, friends, co-workers and members of the community worked together to put up the bench dedicated to the memory of Mitchell Benson that now stands in Pleasant Park.
By Brianna Darling , December 30, 2012
Cottonwood County parks workers charged
WINDOM — Stemming from an investigation that began in August 2010, two former Cottonwood County employees, who have since retired, are now being charged with felony-level failure to pay over state funds and gross misdemeanor-level public employee misconduct.August 12, 2011
Minnesota state employees returning to work
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — State employees began returning to work in Minnesota Thursday after a new budget agreement ended a government shutdown of nearly three weeks.July 21, 2011
State parks could open for day use Friday
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The end of Minnesota's state government shutdown means state parks will soon start re-opening, but it will take some time.July 20, 2011
Shutdown looms over state parks in local region
June 28, 2011
Parks employee charged
Cottonwood County worker, board candidate suspended WINDOM — A Cottonwood County Environmental Office employee under investigation for gas expense charges and time card claims was suspended without pay effective Wednesday.August 25, 2010
Fury’s Island one of Nobles County’s earliest settlements
By Julie Buntjer , April 01, 2010
Editorial: Help keep our city clean
Scott Rosenberg, the city’s parks superintendent, said Tuesday that littering continues to be a problem in many of the city’s parks.By Daily Globe , May 06, 2009
Letter: City parks cleanup was team effort
It was an awesome sight for the drivers around Worthington on Saturday morning, April 19.By Sherry Benton, Worthington , April 25, 2008
Editorial: City's park staff busy, even now
Worthington’s trees may not be in bloom yet — even though there’s now daylight until around 7:30 p.m. — but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of city employees paying them heed.By Daily Globe , March 11, 2008
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