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CVEC farmers raising the bar with unique field research

This year's corn harvest was one of the most challenging in recent memory, but it didn't stop nearly a dozen farmers with the Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company from accomplishing what...

news / region Mon, Dec 14, 2009 - 12:00am

Interns, from left, Zach Bothun, Dylan Lines and Colin Wright assisted Paul Wymar, scientist with the Chippewa River Watershed Project, in work to determine the amount of steam bank erosion occurring in the watershed. Erosion from stream banks and farm fields are major sources of the sediment that causes turbidity levels in the river to exceed clean water standards. Submitted photo

Clearing the muddy Chippewa

BENSON -- The Chippewa River continues to carry sediment to the Minnesota River by the dump truck load. Last year it averaged about 88 tons a day, and in previous...

outdoors Sat, Dec 05, 2009 - 12:00am

Medina begins sentence

MONTEVIDEO -- Victor Daniel Medina, 21, of Montevideo, began serving a 150 months prison sentence Friday at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud. District Judge Paul Nelson sentenced Medina...

news / region Sat, Oct 31, 2009 - 12:00am

Fond du Lac Band asked for return of $75 million from city of Duluth

DULUTH - In a move that could conceivably bankrupt the city of Duluth, the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is asking a federal court to return the...

news / state Tue, Oct 27, 2009 - 9:01am

CVEC qualified as biomass facility

BENSON -- The Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company in Benson has been accepted into the Biomass Crop Assistance Program as a qualified Biomass Conversion Facility. As part of the 2008 Farm...

news / region Tue, Oct 27, 2009 - 12:00am

Hawk Creek Watershed will offer incentives for restoration of wetlands

CLARA CITY -- The Hawk Creek Watershed Project will offer incentives for wetland restoration as part of an effort to reduce the phosphorus runoff that plays a role in depleting...

news / outdoors / region Mon, Oct 26, 2009 - 12:00am

Dave Trauba, supervisor at the Lac qui Parle refuge, talks about grazing as a management tool at the Chippewa Prairie in July. Tribune file photo

DNR, The Nature Conservancy to combine fire, grazing at Chippewa Prairie

WATSON -- There is a place in western Minnesota where one can stroll back into time and sense what it may have been like to live in an era when...

outdoors Sat, Oct 03, 2009 - 12:00am

New CVEC top exec no stranger to the industry

BENSON -- Mike Jerke will succeed Bill Lee as the general manager of the Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company in Benson, the company announced. The company operates a 48 million-gallon-a-year ethanol...

news / region Tue, Sep 29, 2009 - 12:00am

Chippewa Valley Ethanol Co. in Benson has been one of the ethanol industry's pioneers of the Minnesota model: farmer-owned cooperatives producing value added earnings for corn growers. File photo

Innovator in ethanol industry taking on new ground

BENSON -- Bill Lee is leaving an ethanol plant known as a leader in innovation for what he believes will be the next big step in renewable energy. Lee said...

news / region Tue, Sep 29, 2009 - 12:00am

Plans for Wegdahl park slowly move ahead

MONTEVIDEO -- Slowly, surely, and not without controversy, Chippewa County's second county park is taking shape. The latest step was taken last week when on a 3-2 vote, the Chippewa...

news / region Tue, Sep 08, 2009 - 12:00am

Chippewa River Watershed hosting 3rd annual contest

MONTEVIDEO -- The Chippewa River Watershed Project is seeking photographs that feature the Chippewa River Watershed, including its many tributaries and lakes. The winning photos will be published in a...

outdoors Sat, Aug 29, 2009 - 12:00am

A lawsuit filed in Chippewa County asks the court to determine the rights and responsibilities of the Judicial Ditch 7 or Hawk Creek Drainage Authority as it decides how to replace timber bridges spanning the waterway in Lone Tree Township. There are 13 timber bridges, like this one on 20th Street Northeast. Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny

Longtime Hawk Creek bridge dispute is on its way to court

MONTEVIDEO -- A dispute that could be said to be over 40 years in the making has five county commissioners and the county attorneys from Chippewa, Renville and Kandiyohi counties...

news / local / region Fri, Aug 07, 2009 - 12:00am

Chippewa River float set for June

MONTEVIDEO -- The Chippewa River Watershed Project is sponsoring a guided canoe and kayak trip down the Chippewa River on Saturday, June 13. This trip is easily navigable by beginners...

outdoors Sat, May 30, 2009 - 12:00am

Karin and Aric Koenen look over grape vines at their Hinterland Vineyard and Winery east of Clara City. Neat rows of trellis hold six different varieties of grapes on nine acres. Hinterland Vineyard and Winery of Clara City will open its doors Friday and begin offering the first bottles of wine produced in a Chippewa County winery. The wines are crafted from Minnesota hearty grapes developed by the University including Frontenac, Frontenac gris, La Crescent, and Marquette as well as two varieties develop...

Hinterland Vineyard and Winery a first in Chippewa County

It's planting season in Chippewa County, and farmers are scrambling to seed their fields with this year's crops of corn, soybeans and sugar beets. Except on a small corner of...

news / region Wed, Apr 29, 2009 - 12:00am

Mother and daughter injured Sunday in two-vehicle accident

WILLMAR - A mother and daughter from Appleton were injured Sunday afternoon in a two-vehicle accident west of Willmar. Three teens from Kerkhoven, who were in the second vehicle, were...

news / news / local / region Mon, Apr 20, 2009 - 8:23am

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