Minnesota Department of Transportation District 3 has announced lane closures on Interstate 94 this weekend, hopefully taking advantage of travel limited by the state’s new limitations put in place to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, which includes limited travel. The freeway will be down to a single lane on the eastbound side from 5 p.m. Friday, […]
Minnesota Dials Back: Walz Curbs Restaurants, Sports as Numbers Overwhelm Hospitals
On a day when Minnesota's Mayo Clinic reported hundreds of sick workers, 'hard' restrictions were put into place via the Governor's action.
As COVID-19 continues to climb around Minnesota, residents are now going to feel the pinch. For the second time in less than 10 months, restaurants will transition to take-out service only and youth/high school sports will grind to a halt. Executive order 20-99 will bring several things to a halt at 11:59 p.m. Friday, Nov. […]
St. Michael Cinema Announces Plans to Keep Public ‘At the Movies’
Following the success of late-summer drive-in movies, the theater is innovating once again.
Innovation is the name of the game for St. Michael Cinema these days. Movie theaters were darkened throughout the COVID-19 “Spring” earlier this year, and while the federal financial support helped, the money ran dry in June. That led to some creative thinking at the local theater, which painted the outside wall of its gigantic […]
Major Semi Accident on Interstate 94 in Monticello, Trucks on Fire
UPDATE: More than 30 vehicles, half trucks and trailers, involved in Thursday's pile-up.
UPDATE: Check out photos of this morning’s accident scene from the Minnesota State Patrol. Firefighters have been on site for more than four hours. I94 Monticello – both EB & WB directions remain closed while the fire department continues to put out the fires. One load was tractor tires. Preliminary info indicates approximately 30 vehicles […]
St. Michael-Albertville Schools Switching Secondary Schools to Full Distance Learning
Students in grades 5 through 12, which had started the year in a hybrid model, will stay home as COVID numbers continue to climb.
St. Michael-Albertville School District will join the long list of community schools making a shift to keep students home from school buildings during this latest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Ann-Marie Foucault, Superintendent of STMA Schools, said the District came to the conclusion this week that the coronavirus illness was having too great of […]
Interstate 94 to Shift Back to ‘Normal’ between Rogers and Maple Grove
Work on the St. Michael and Albertville bridge will continue.
Crews are wrapping up work on eastbound I-94 between Rogers and Maple Grove. Motorists should prepare for lanes to return to their normal configuration. On the evening of Thu, Nov. 12, eastbound I-94 lanes between Hwy 101 in Rogers and the I-94/494/694 interchange in Maple Grove will return to the eastbound side of the freeway. […]
Walz Turns Dials Back on Bars, Minnesota’s Young Adults ‘Disproportionately’ Sick
Restrictions on bars and restaurants, social gatherings and even wedding receptions set to roll out, take aim at state's fastest-growing COVID population.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced Tuesday, Nov. 10 that bars and restaurants will need to abide by an earlier closing time for in-person service, while wedding venues and gathering spaces need to also curb back their crowds in an effort to flatten the latest spike in COVID-19 cases statewide. “This is a critical time in […]
COVID Numbers Skyrocketing in Wright County as Fall Wave Hits
Schools, families adapt as coronavirus cases are hitting new highs all over Minnesota.
Colder weather, large gatherings – including weddings, and school events have led to a large increase in COVID-19 cases around the Minnesota, and Wright County is breaking records with new cases. Over the last two weeks alone, more than 1,000 people have tested positive for the disease associated with the coronavirus pandemic. That’s according to […]
Warning Issued: Winter Storm Set to Blast Twin Cities, Ice to South
Veterans Day will be a white one in the Wright County area, the National Weather Service Predicts.
Snow, wind and freezing rain are expected today and tomorrow, Nov. 10 and 11, as a large storm front tracks its way across the state of Minnesota. The STMA and Otsego area can expect anywhere from 4 to 6 inches of snow from Tuesday night into Wednesday morning – an amount that should snarl the […]
Another Wintry Blast on the Way: Winter Storm Watch Issued for Wright County
Heavy rain will change to snow overnight in our region.
Another dose of winter – after record-setting snowfall in October – is taking aim at the North Wright County Today area as a system churns its way through Minnesota and into Wisconsin. And like the October snows – this shouldn’t last too long. Highs in the upper 40s should hit our region on Saturday, with […]
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