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Benefits of digital patient record starting to emerge at Rice Hospital in Willmar, Minn.

WILLMAR — To patients, Rice Memorial Hospital’s transition a year ago to a new integrated electronic medical record system was mostly invisible. But to hospital workers and the medical staff,...

news / local Mon, Apr 15, 2013 - 4:28am

Cindy Alvarado, clinical analyst, demonstrates the use of the integrated electronic medical records system in a patient room at Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

One year later, Rice Hospital in Willmar, Minn., looks back at implementation of electronic health records

WILLMAR — As morning dawned on Feb. 1, 2012, Teri Beyer was nervous. In a single “big bang” changeover, Rice Memorial Hospital was going live that day with Epic, a...

news / local Mon, Apr 15, 2013 - 4:26am

During a week designated to review dangers of summer storms, snow is in the forecast

WILLMAR — This is severe weather awareness week, when state and local public safety officials seek to increase citizen awareness of the dangers of summer storms — extreme heat, thunder,...

news / local Sun, Apr 14, 2013 - 10:46pm

Area Boy Scouts had a chance to complete projects from rope making to tree planting and catapult firing on Saturday during the annual Boy Scout Expo held at the Willmar City Auditorium.

Video: Boy Scout Expo

Area Boy Scouts had a chance to complete projects from rope making to tree planting and catapult firing on Saturday during the annual Boy Scout Expo held at the Willmar...

news / local Sun, Apr 14, 2013 - 12:45pm

Winter storm warning starts at 1 a.m. Sunday, snow, sleet, ice forecast

WILLMAR - The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for west central Minnesota. Regional counties in the warning, from 1 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday are Pope,...

news / local Sat, Apr 13, 2013 - 4:50pm

Willmar, Minn., City Council to meet Monday

WILLMAR — The Willmar City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the council chambers at the Willmar Municipal Utilities building. A public hearing is scheduled for 7:02 p.m...

news / local Sat, Apr 13, 2013 - 12:45pm

Sue Leal, from Kandiyohi County Family Services, shows the new one-page form senior citizens can use to apply for food support. It replaces a 10-page form. Tribune photo by Carolyn Lange

New short form makes it easier for seniors to apply for food support (video)

WILLMAR — The process for senior citizens to apply for food support is now shorter and easier than in the past. A new one-page application for Minnesotans age 60 and...

news / local Sat, Apr 13, 2013 - 12:00pm

David Halverson, Ridgewater College student senator, takes a swing at a wall with a sledge hammer on Friday in a building that will be remodeled as part of the overall project. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

Renovation will ‘transform’ Ridgewater: Willmar, Minn., college kicks off $14M remodeling project

WILLMAR — Ridgewater College is ready for a year of upheaval on its Willmar campus as a $14 million, 50,000-square-foot remodeling and demolition project gets underway. College officials observed the...

news / local Sat, Apr 13, 2013 - 6:51am

The railroad crossing on Willmar Avenue Southwest is expected to become a quiet zone — where the sounding of a locomotive horn is not required because additional safety features are installed. A committee of the Willmar City Council took action this week to recommend an agreement to obtain an easement from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway for the required work. The full council is expected to act Monday. (Tribune photo by Dan Burdett)

City Council to consider quiet zone easement on Willmar Avenue

WILLMAR — Establishing a railroad crossing quiet zone on Willmar Avenue Southwest took another step forward under action taken this week by the City Council’s Public Works/Safety Committee. The committee...

news / local Sat, Apr 13, 2013 - 5:41am

Man pleads to felony drug count, four Willmar, Minn., housemates also are charged

WILLMAR — Mark Russell Johnson, 47, of Willmar, pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony charge of storing meth paraphernalia in the presence of a child for drug usage items seized...

news / local Fri, Apr 12, 2013 - 11:40pm

Records for April 13

This is the records summary for April 13. Property damage WILLMAR — Damage to a fence was reported around 4:20 p.m. Thursday along the 500 block of First Street South...

news / local Fri, Apr 12, 2013 - 10:54pm

Ridgewater College President Doug Allen presents the upcoming building improvements on Friday during a "Building Breaking" ceremony to celebrate the beginning of their $14 million remodeling project.

Video: "Building Breaking" at Ridgewater College

Ridgewater College President Doug Allen presents the upcoming building improvements on Friday during a "Building Breaking" ceremony to celebrate the beginning of their $14 million remodeling project.

news / local Fri, Apr 12, 2013 - 5:04pm

Willmar, Minn, panel OKs sewer line budget change

WILLMAR — The Willmar City Council’s Finance Committee is recommending the council amend the western interceptor sewer budget to include the cost of extending a sewer line in the new...

news / local Thu, Apr 11, 2013 - 11:10pm

Large sections of power line poles in the Worthington area were snapped under the extra weight of all the ice and high winds Wednesday, April 10, 2013, leaving much of Nobles County without power. Nobles County officials said Thursday could be up to a week before all the electricity will be restored. Daily Globe photo by Brian Korthals

Willmar, Minn., area crews respond to southwest region of state still in the dark

BENSON — Blustery weather didn’t prevent area municipal utility crews from getting on the road to help out other cities in need. Repair trucks and workers from Benson and Olivia...

news / local Thu, Apr 11, 2013 - 11:04pm

Snow covers the apparatus Thursday at Minnegasco Park in southwest Willmar. The park, usually buzzing with activity this time of year, was deserted as a spring snowstorm hit the area. Tribune photo by Rand Middleton

West central Minnesota residents ‘so so so so sick of snow!!’

Had enough of winter? “Santa Claus got ran over by the Easter Bunny,’’ laughed Janette Wertish Thursday morning at her Handi-Stop convenience and gas station on U.S. Highway 212 in...

news / local Thu, Apr 11, 2013 - 11:00pm

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