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    February 28, 2015
    Graves’ plane flying too low in final seconds, NTSB finds in early report
    DENTON, Texas — The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report on the Feb. 4 plane crash in Argyle that claimed the life of pilot William Blake Graves, 52, of Flower Mound, formerly of Willmar.
    news / localFebruary 28, 2015 - 5:56am
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    February 23, 2015
    Agweek TV: GMOs and economic predictions for farmers at the soybean expo
    Noted author and environmental speaker Patrick Moore spoke about GMO crops at the 2015 Northern Soybean Expo in Fargo last week. The former Greenpeace leader said he believes too much of the modern environmentalist movement is based on fear and misinformation. Another speaker, economist...
    news / agricultureFebruary 23, 2015 - 6:00am
    February 17, 2015
    Willmar's TPI Hospitality becomes employee stock ownership plan company
    WILLMAR — TPI Hospitality, a hotel and restaurant development and ownership and management company headquartered in Willmar, has become an employee stock ownership plan company. Tom Torgerson, CEO and chairman of the board of TPI Hospitality, made the announcement during a companywide...
    news / localFebruary 17, 2015 - 9:00am
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    February 12, 2015
    Lake Lillian to host ‘town talks’ Monday on local business
    LAKE LILLIAN — Spurred by the recent closing of the town’s only grocery store, Lake Lillian will host a pair of community talking sessions this coming week on business recruitment and retention. The goal is to look at “the whole big picture” of local business, said Susan...
    news / regionFebruary 12, 2015 - 11:36pm
    February 11, 2015
    New owners plan to redevelop former furniture store in downtown Willmar
    WILLMAR — The former Erickson Furniture building in downtown Willmar has a new owner. New Minnesota Realty, owned by Sahra Gure and Abdirizak “Zack” Mahboub of Willmar, took possession of the building this week. Gure is the president of the company. Gure and Mahboub, who are...
    news / localFebruary 11, 2015 - 11:19pm
    February 3, 2015
    Machine developed in Bakken Oil Field could lay large drainage lines in west central Minnesota farm fields
    OLIVIA — A machine developed to lay pipeline in the Bakken Oil Field of North Dakota could be put to work in Renville, Kandiyohi and neighboring...
    news / regionFebruary 3, 2015 - 11:04pm
    February 2, 2015
    High school shop project grows into a career for Atwater man
    ATWATER — Marv Berger’s high school wood shop class was so crowded that there weren’t enough tools to go around, so students were asked if anyone was interesting in doing a special project. “I’ve always wanted to design a house,” he told his teacher at Milaca High School....
    news / localFebruary 2, 2015 - 11:46pm
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    January 27, 2015
    RITALKA Inc. and Specialty Systems of Willmar to expand to Watertown, South Dakota
    WATERTOWN, S.D. — A local manufacturing and engineering company is expanding operations to Watertown, South Dakota. RITALKA Inc., and its subsidiary Specialty Systems or SpecSys Inc., is expanding into a 110,000-square-foot facility in Watertown to assist with the rapid growth...
    news / regionJanuary 27, 2015 - 11:45pm
    January 15, 2015
    Cliffs CEO wants to save Minnesota taconite mines
    DULUTH — Cliffs Natural Resources is shedding its Canadian operations, selling U.S. coal mines and looking to get out of iron mining in Australia. What apparently will remain of the shrinking Cleveland-based company will be its Minnesota and Michigan taconite iron ore operations....
    news / stateJanuary 15, 2015 - 10:00am
    January 12, 2015
    Entrepreneurs use digital technology to enhance the 21st-century gravestone
    WILLMAR — Down through the ages, the cemetery headstone has gone virtually unchanged — until now, with a venture by a pair of young business partners that uses QR code technology to unlock the life stories of the departed. Stick one of Eternal Legacy LLC’s anodized aluminum...
    news / localJanuary 12, 2015 - 11:00pm
    January 9, 2015
    Business survey to be analyzed
    WILLMAR — In an all-out blitz that started in November, local leaders and volunteers have completed nearly 100 face-to-face surveys with Kandiyohi County business owners. The next task will be to look at the information they collected and to analyze it. The process will help provide...
    newsJanuary 9, 2015 - 11:55pm
    January 8, 2015
    Southwest Initiative Foundation names new president
    HUTCHINSON — The Southwest Initiative Foundation has named Diana Anderson as its new president and chief executive. The foundation’s board of directors voted unanimously this week in favor of Anderson’s appointment. She had been interim president and CEO since August 2014,...
    news / localJanuary 8, 2015 - 8:17pm
    December 29, 2014
    Group reapplies for grant to build Willmar railroad bypass
    WILLMAR — BNSF Railway, along with local governmental partners, will try again to obtain a federal grant to help build the proposed $50 million railroad bypass, also known as a wye, west of Willmar to possibly divert up to a third of the trains in and out of the city’s rail yard. In...
    newsDecember 29, 2014 - 10:08pm
    Construction values in Willmar-area triple
    WILLMAR — The year 2014 is shaping up to be an excellent year for construction values in Willmar. “2014 will be the best year we’ve had in a number of years,’’ said Bruce Peterson, director of planning and economic development for the city. “2013 was a pretty good year....
    newsDecember 29, 2014 - 10:02pm
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