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WILLMAR — Spicer Dairy Queen store owners Dan and Jennifer Goetzman are grateful for the opportunity to buy Willmar’s two Dairy Queen stores from longtime owners Fred and Candy Anderson. “I know they had a lot of people they could have sold it to, and we’re appreciative that...

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NEW LONDON –– Ever since the grocery store in New London closed six years ago, community residents have been bemoaning its absence and begging for a return of a full-service grocery store. Those six years of waiting could end in six days if enough people step up and invest in...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...