Stearns County

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 11 Minnesota counties as disaster areas because of the combined impacts of excessive rain, high heat, strong winds, tornadoes and an early fall frost this year.

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Stearns County has just installed two new drop boxes for unused and unwanted medications.

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Stearns County may be cutting jobs in its Environmental Services Department. A staffing study shows technology upgrades are needed and it would also mean staffing levels should go down.

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After a year of lane restrictions, road closures, and traffic jams, the West Metro Corridor project in northwest St. Cloud is nearing completion. A wetter than normal summer threatened the project's completion date, but the project engineer says a dry September saved the project from spilling over into next year.

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Stearns County's insurance trust has paid $350,000 to a man who was shot in the back by a sheriff's lieutenant during a drug bust.

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A woman is dead after a car crash in Stearns County. The Stearns County Sheriff's Office and Cold Spring Police responded to the one-vehicle crash yesterday.

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More progress on the West Metro Corridor project as workers will shift traffic on Ridgewood Road to the newly constructed westbound lanes tomorrow afternoon. Eastbound traffic will remain in the eastbound lanes. There will be one lane open in each direction until late Monday when the roadway will be opened to two lanes in each direction.

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If a picture says a thousand words, then Stearns County has a lot to say. The county's "staycation photo contest" has come to a close, and the top ten pictures have been chosen.

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The DNR is now taking public comment on draft maps for Stearns County's aggregate resources. The county board of commissioners asked the DNR to map the county's sand, gravel and crushed stone deposits to better plan for future zoning and also to identify local, low-cost sources of these minerals.

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More traffic lane switches today as part of the West Metro Corridor project. Motorists will be switched to the south side of Stearns County Road 134 between Driftwood Road and Veterans Drive.

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