Stearns County
Recent News About Stearns County
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COUNTY OF STEARNS: MN residents can call 988 to get mental health crisis support immediately for themselves or loved one.
Dial or text 988 24/7 to reach crisis support or use online chat. Suicide growing public health concern across MN; suicide deaths have increased for 20 years.
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COUNTY OF STEARNS: Myth: A lightning victim is electrified
Fact: The human body does not store electricity.
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COUNTY OF STEARNS: Interesting fact… Minnesota ranks 8th in the country in milk production and 6th in cheese production
National Dairy Month started out as National Milk Month in 1937 to promote drinking milk, created to stabilize dairy demand when production was at a surplus.
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COUNTY OF STEARNS: The U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards program
Award winners being right here in Stearns County! Schlangen Dairy Farm in Albany uses more than 30 conservation practices on their farm.
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COUNTY OF STREARNS: With much sadness, our flags are flying at half-staff until sunset on Saturday
May 28 to honor the lives lost in the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, May 24.
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COUNTY OF STEARNS: Mourn, and honor the one million American lives lost to COVID-19.
Governor Tim Walz has directed all flags at state and federal buildings in Minnesota to be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Monday
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COUNTY OF STEARNS: Groundbreaking on the Highway 23 expansion project
The much anticipated 9-mile project will create a 4-lane highway from Richmond to Paynesville.
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COUNTY OF STEARNS: The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office will host Youth Safety Camps again this summer
There will be four camps held at four different locations throughout the County to allow more children to participate.
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COUNTY OF STEARNS: The redistricting process for Stearns County has been completed
Congressional, legislative and commissioner borders have been finalized for this year’s elections.
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COUNTY OF STEARNS: The DNR invites aquarium hobbyists, gardeners, and anglers to a webinar at noon
County Of Stearns issued the following announcement on Apr. 07.The DNR invites aquarium hobbyists, gardeners, and anglers to a webinar at noon, April 12 on preventing the introduction and spread of aquatic invasive species.
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COUNTY OF STREARNS: Stearns County will hold public input sessions
The possibility of extending the local transportation sales tax, and how the money would be used.
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COUNTY OF STREARNS: It’s always imperative to clean up after our pets, but with the snow melt it’s particularly important
With the spring runoff, all that uncollected waste gets washed into our storm sewers, rivers and eventually our drinking water supply.
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COUNTY OF STEARNS: What disaster or emergency do you think is most likely to hit Stearns County
We need to hear from you as the County’s Emergency Management team updates its All-Hazard Mitigation Plan.
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Stearns County COVID-19 infection rate climbs, schools move to distance learning
The rate of COVID-19 infections in Stearns County, Minnesota has increased rapidly enough for the Minnesota Department of Education to recommend that middle and high schools in the county shut down and transition to distance learning.