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If you are driving on Highway 23, east of Paynesville you many have noticed the new bypass. The recent addition has caused some controversy among the locals. The new Highway 23 Paynesville Bypass began in mid-April 2010 and was completed ahead of schedule, on July 20.

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Authorities say 47 year old Scott Vogelpohl was killed in an early morning mobile home fire in Paynesville Township.

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One person is reportedly dead after a Paynesville Township mobile home fire.

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The Highway 23 Paynesville Bypass opens Friday, more than a month ahead of schedule. The 7 1/2 mile, four-lane divided bypass runs north of New London from Kandyohi County Road 6 to west of 263rd Avenue in Paynesville.

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The Stearns County Sheriff's Office says a man has been arrested after crashing into and injuring another man in Paynesville.

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Paynesville City officials continue to be frustrated with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and their legislative delegation over lack of action over a benzene plume under the city. The PCA has been monitoring the plume under a former gas station site for 20 years, and at one point recommended excavating it.

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A wind farm that was to be the first such large-scale operation in central Minnesota is about a year behind schedule.

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Fourteen years after two dangerous chemicals were found in water samples from two Paynesville city wells, city officials want to know why the state has been so slow to clean the contamination.

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The Minnesota Court of Appeals says it can count as trespass under the law when pesticide drifts from one farm to another. The appeals court revived a lawsuit by organic farmers Oluf and Debra Johnson against the Paynesville Farmers Union Cooperative Oil Company.

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A main highway in central Minnesota will have traffic restrictions and lane closures as part of a preventive maintenance and seal coating project. The Minnesota Department of Transportation says crews will begin the work on Highway 23 between Richmond and the Highway 55 intersection in Paynesville tomorrow.

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