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Legislative notebook: Senate backs gasoline tax hike
By Don Davis and Danielle Killey Minnesota senators voted Friday to raise the state gasoline tax 5 cents in the next few years. After the Senate Transportation Committee in recent weeks removed a gas ...
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The full emotional spectrum
Like everyone else who lives here in southwest Minnesota, Ive experienced a wide range of emotions in the last 10 days. Every time I look out the big picture window at the front of our house, which fa...
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The calm after the ice storm
There were all sorts of blogs I wanted to write things I wanted to say, people I wanted to recognize and little did you see this tidbits I wanted to share in the days immediately following the ice st...
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Continual (Solar-Powered) Economic Growth
Last Saturday I attended an event at the University of Minnesota showcasing professors and their research. Each gave a presentation and took questions from the audience. One spoke about depression eco...
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Power system still needs work

Power system still needs work While electricity is restored, long-term repairs could take a year
WORTHINGTON — It’s been nearly a month since ice-coated power lines caused thousands of wooden poles to snap and transmission structures to tumble, yet a drive through the countryside shows the massive amount of restoration work yet to be done.

By Julie Buntjer , May 05, 2013

Can’t catch a break: lightning cuts power to 800

WORTHINGTON — By 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nobles Cooperative Electric restored power to nearly all of its Nobles County members — at least until 7:30 p.m., when it went out again for some residents.

By Alyson Buschena , April 18, 2013

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Image: A 'thank you' meal

Image: A 'thank you' meal Members of the Grand Prairie Rockets 4-H Club serve supper to the linemen who have been helping restore power to Nobles Cooperative Electric members Wednesday night at the co-op office north of Worthington.

By Julie Buntjer , April 17, 2013

Update: 258 Nobles Co-op Electric customers without power

1 p.m. Wednesday update: WORTHINGTON – Crews from Nobles Cooperative Electric, neighboring cooperatives, contractors and tree trimmers are continuing to make steady progress in restoring power. Workers will continue until all members are fully restored.

April 17, 2013

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Federated completes power restoration in Jackson County

JACKSON – Federated Rural Electric in Jackson turned on the last residential meter Monday night with line crews done by 7 p.m. with residential outage restoration. At the peak of Federated’s ice storm outages were as high as 2,200 in Jackson County.

April 16, 2013

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Update: Nobles Co-op Electric outages down to 587

WORTHINGTON — As of 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nobles Cooperative Electric reported just 587 households without power. At the height of the outages following last week’s ice storm, more than 3,500 members were without power.

By Daily Globe , April 16, 2013

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Local farmers struggle in wake of power outages

WORTHINGTON — Rural Ellsworth cattle producer and veterinarian Erin deKoning was pretty happy to get home from work Monday to see power was finally restored to her family’s farm. After last Tuesday’s ice storm, it didn’t take long for the family’s beef cows to realize the hotwire fence used to keep them in their yard was no longer working.

By Julie Buntjer , April 15, 2013

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Federated plans to restore power to 75 remaining households today

9 a.m. press release: JACKSON – Federated Rural Electric in Jackson is on the home stretch with outages remaining to about 75 members. At the peak of Federated’s ice storm last week it was as high as 2,200 in Jackson County.

April 15, 2013

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Nobles Co-op Electric: 100% power by Friday?

Nobles Co-op Electric: 100% power by Friday? Electricity returns for many in southwest Minnesota
WORTHINGTON — Nobles Cooperative Electric linemen continued to work through the weekend to rebuild power lines across Nobles and Murray counties, with the hope that many or all who lost electricity would get it back by the end of this week.

By Julie Buntjer , April 14, 2013

Nobles Co-op Electric gets 500 households powered Saturday; 97 crews working today

9:45 a.m. Sunday press release: WORTHINGTON -– We are making progress! Yesterday, Nobles Cooperative Electric estimated that 2,500 members were without power, today those numbers show dramatic improvement with 2,000 members out of power. The cooperative can now report that 95 percent of our three-phase (main) line is restored.

April 14, 2013

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Sioux Valley Energy plans to have all power restored by tonight

Sioux Valley Energy plans to have all power restored by tonight Sioux Valley Energy is planning to have power restored to all its electric cooperative members by the end of today provided there are no unforeseen setbacks.

April 13, 2013

Nobles Cooperative Electric sets goal to have power restored to all Nobles County residents by next Friday

WORTHINGTON -- It’s still slow-going for Nobles Cooperative Electric linemen as they work through their fifth straight day to rebuild power lines across Nobles and Murray counties.

By Julie Buntjer , April 13, 2013

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Federated outages down to 270 as of Sunday morning

8 a.m. Sunday update
JACKSON -- 530 Federated members had power restored Saturday. “We are down from 800 co-op members without power yesterday to 270 as of 7 a.m. Sunday,” said Joe Marthaler, Federated’s operations manager. “Today’s focus involves crews rebuilding 21 miles of power lines due to downed poles. To give you an idea of how many poles that is, some stretches have 16 out of 20 poles downed per mile of line.”

April 13, 2013

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YMCA offers shower facility for those without power

WORTHINGTON — The Worthington Area YMCA is offering its shower facilities free of charge this weekend to people of Nobles County, particularly rural residents, who remain without power.

April 12, 2013

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Update: All substations have power except Bloom

2:30 p.m. updated press release from Nobles Cooperative Electric: WORTHINGTON – Nobles Cooperative Electric is happy to report that all substations have power with the exception of Bloom Substation. Bloom is anticipated to be up and functioning by this evening.

By Julie Buntjer , April 12, 2013

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