By Robert Williams Editor The Frazee-Vergas Hornets wrestling team will conduct the 2025-26 season with two head coaches after a request from current Head Coach Travis Nagel to reduce his full-time position to half-time was approved by the school board Monday, Nov. 11. Nagel had expressed interest in continuing as a co-head coach with someone else and… Read More

Photo by Robert Williams Surrounded by her Hornet teammates this evening, Jayden Sonnenberg signed her National Letter of Intent to play Division I Women’s Basketball for the University of North Dakota Fighting Hawks. Front row L-R: Leslie Moore, Jayden Sonnenberg and Analise Olson. Back row: Aynslee Johannsen, Brynn Larson, Katie Courneya, Maggie Blaine and Ruby Eckert.

By Louis Hoglund Pelican Rapids Press Like nearly every Sunday since about 1962, Alwyn Martinson took his seat in the pews of Vergas United Methodist Church on Sunday, Nov. 9.  There wasn’t a whole lot of fanfare, but on the eve of Tuesday, Nov. 11, Veterans Day, 2025,  it was duly noted that the church had the distinction… Read More

Program aims to address substance use, prevent future incidents in OTC First-time DWI offenders now have access to a new intervention program that provides substance use screening and treatment resources, while offering up to $200 in fine reduction as an incentive to participate. The newly launched Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) program connects… Read More

Essentia Health is proud to announce that it has earned the 2026 Military Friendly® Employer designation for its commitment to recruit, retain and celebrate veterans and military colleagues. This recognition is a testament to the important and intentional work Essentia has undertaken to uplift veterans and current service members. That includes the health system’s Operation Undying… Read More

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has up to $1,060,000 available to local entities such as lake associations, watershed districts, cities, and counties, as well as Tribal governments, for the management of curly-leaf pondweed, Eurasian watermilfoil, flowering rush and/or starry stonewort. Funding comes from Minnesota’s invasive species account, which is largely funded by the invasive species… Read More

The Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC) has announced that the Ramsey County District Court denied the State of Minnesota’s motion to stay the court’s order holding that a provision of the 2024 Omnibus Bill is unconstitutional. On November 5, the Honorable Judge Leonardo Castro issued an order denying the request by Governor Tim Walz and Attorney… Read More

Photos by Robert Williams Above: Frazee-Vergas VFW Post 7702 Commander Bob Clarey leads those gathered on West Main Avenue in the Pledge of Allegiance to open the Veterans’ Day service in Frazee Tuesday, Nov. 11. Below right: VFW Soloist Sandy Rausch sings the “Star Spangled Banner” during the annual Veterans’ Day ceremony Tuesday morning in front… Read More

Otter Tail County was awarded a $96,000 Growing Careers Agricultural Workforce Grant from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). The grant funding will be used to expand the County’s Empowered Worker Program to serve employers and workers in agriculture and ag-related industries. This program will grow the area’s workforce by providing skills… Read More

West Central Initiative welcomes Bianca Newell as Transportation and Sustainability Planner and Jack Butler as a Minnesota GreenCorps member serving with the organization’s energy and sustainability team. Together, they will strengthen efforts around clean energy, climate resilience, and active transportation across west central Minnesota.  Newell and Butler will work with communities to advance Safe Routes to… Read More