Environment

Several area water quality projects have been chosen to receive grants and loan money from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.

Hutchinson city workers will clean up the town of leaves starting the fall of 2010.

The nonprofit Wildlife Habitat Council last week certified Spruce Ridge Landfill as a home for wildlife.

The McLeod County Board Tuesday (Nov. 3) gave Hutchinson city forester Mark Schnobrich the go-ahead to help the county’s nine municipalities fight back against emerald ash borer.

A recent death of a Wisconsin man after falling out of a tree stand while bear hunting has officials with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources urging caution as the state’s hunting seasons

Two and a half decades after seeing its stately boulevard elms devastated by Dutch elm disease, Hutchinson will have to prepare itself for the potential loss of most of its more than 3,000 ash trees to the emerald ash borer, or EAB.

By Nathan Winter
Extension Educator – Agricultural Productions Systems
McLeod/Meeker County

The McLeod Alliance for Victims of Domestic Violence is displaying a can-do attitude toward fundraising this month.

The Minnesota Public Facilities Authority, or PFA, has presented another round of financing for improvements to drinking water and wastewater plants in several small Minnesota towns and cities.