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Mary Jo Larson of Willmar, a longtime vendor at the Willmar Farmers Market, sells her wide selection of jams during the first market of the season on Saturday. The weekend market was well-attended even though the amount of available fresh produce was somewhat limited because of the late planting this season. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

Willmar, Minn., farmers market

news / local Mon, Jul 11, 2011 - 12:00am

With his bee costume, Brent Larson of Sunburg draws attention to his farmers market stand where he sells honey and apples in this August 2010 file photo. The market is held every Saturday morning at the Westside Liquor parking lot during the growing season. (Tribune file photo by Ron Adams)

Local vendors open Willmar Farmers Market today

As the sun came up today, so did the tents and vendors at the Willmar Farmers Market. For 15 weeks, from 6:30 a.m. to "whenever the vendors leave," the Westside...

extra / local Sat, Jul 09, 2011 - 12:05am

Stocks open slightly lower after jobs report

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks are opening slightly lower after the government reported a decline in new weekly unemployment claims that was smaller than economists expected. The Labor Department said...

news / nation Thu, Mar 31, 2011 - 9:06am

A home in southeast Willmar waits for a buyer. Home sales, battered by the recession, remain sluggish. (Tribune photo by Anne Polta)

Foreclosures rise, housing market remains lackluster

WILLMAR -- Among the recent new listings of Willmar homes for sale is one with a swimming pool and a location in what Realtor Mary Peterson describes as "a beautiful...

business / local Tue, Nov 09, 2010 - 12:00am

With his bee costume, Brent Larson of Sunburg draws attention to his farmers market stand where he sells honey and apples. The market at the Westside Liquor parking lot in Willmar is held every Saturday morning during the growing season. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

Creative marketing at farmers market

news / local Mon, Aug 30, 2010 - 12:00am

Beverly Dougherty of the Design Center in Willmar sorts the flowers on display Thursday at the co-op booth at the Becker Market in downtown Willmar. The flowers were grown by Chuck Roelofs and sold at the co-op booth because he could not be at the market. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

news / local Fri, Jul 23, 2010 - 12:00am

Susie Lang, right, and her family are committed to eating only locally-produced foods from Tuesday until July 15. The challenge is part of an effort to promote more local foods production and the economic benefits it offers. Lang, her husband Andy and son Elliot started out by buying local foods from Sherry Kenney at the Hector farmer's market on Wednesday afternoon. Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny

Family takes on one-month, local foods challenge

OLIVIA -- Someday, Susie Lang's name might be mentioned in the company of Julia Child and Julie Powell. She intends to make her mark by mastering the art of Renville...

news / region / local Mon, Jun 14, 2010 - 12:00am

Dean Risa of Risa Family Garden in Montevideo prepares Thursday for the first Becker Market of the season in downtown Willmar. The farmers market, which also features the works of local artisans and various entertainment, is held each Thursday through Sept. 30. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

Marketing downtown

news / local Fri, Jun 04, 2010 - 12:00am

Second priest in the Irish sex abuse scandal served in North Dakota parishes

The key figure and most notorious abuser in a children's sex abuse scandal currently rocking the country of Ireland served as a priest in the Catholic Diocese of Fargo from...

news / nation Wed, Mar 24, 2010 - 2:20pm

Paola Pena paints a wall mural of a scene from the Becker Market at the headquarters for the Willmar Area Multicultural Market in downtown Willmar. Roberto Valdez Jr, the coordinator of WAMM, draws the design as Pena, a local artist, paints in the color. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

news / local Sat, Feb 20, 2010 - 12:00am

Minn. River Board's Conservation Market plan is begining to take shape across the state

MONTEVIDEO -- What if it was possible to reduce the amount of pollution reaching a waterway by making it profitable for landowners to increase the acres of wildlife habitat in...

news / region Thu, Jan 28, 2010 - 12:00am

Area housing market registers slow but steady year, data show

WILLMAR -- Unemployment and uncertainty about the economy have slowed the housing market in Kandiyohi County this past year. But homes are continuing to be bought and sold, especially houses...

business / local Tue, Nov 10, 2009 - 12:00am

Editorial: Citizen input is needed on downtown

The Becker Market is completing its fourth year of operations. The effort has been successful.

opinion / editorials Sat, Oct 24, 2009 - 12:00am

The biggest pumpkin at the 49th annual Willmar Farmer's Market weighed in Saturday morning at 279 pounds. Standing next to the orange behemoth grown at Mages Gardens near Olivia are, from left, Mark Mages and his sons Josh and Jesse. Owner Bruce Mages is not shown. Other winning veggies included a 16-pound turnip. (Tribune photo by Rand Middleton)

Growing competition

news / local Mon, Sep 28, 2009 - 12:00am

Letter: Camaraderie at the market

I have had the good fortune this last summer of being able to sit at my wife Julie's table at the Becker Market and the farmers' market in Willmar.

opinion / letters / community Tue, Sep 15, 2009 - 12:00am

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