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The Wadena City Council took another step in the road to a new Electric Office and Shop June 11 by approving a plan review, authorizing bids and even choosing a color scheme for the building's exterior - two shades of gray. The board heard Wadena's Local Government Aid (LGA) share...

July 11 • Ronald Thomas Hix, 68, of Wadena, was issued a citation for tampering with a motor vehicle. July 13 • The Wadena Police Department signed a criminal complaint on, Samella Katrice Holmes, 36, of Wadena, for malicious punishment of a child. Holmes is set to make her initial...

The rocking violence of a summer storm may be a wakeup call from Mother Nature for some, but for Wadena's Dave Evans and his staff, it's also a call to action. "It's time to get to work," Evans said. The head of Wadena's Electric Department assigned three of his men to help the City...

July 5 • The Wadena Police Department was contacted by a woman who alleged her daughter had sold a vehicle she did not own to a junk yard. The complainant said she gave the car to her daughter for her use but she had not signed the title over to her and wanted to report the vehicle...

One person is reportedly dead and another flown from the scene with serious injuries following a two-vehicle crash Friday morning one mile north of Menahga on U.S. Highway 71. Witnesses who arrived on scene shortly after the accident said they believed it was a head-on collision and...

Charges have now been filed against the semi truck driver that police say crossed the centerline of Highway 210, striking and and killing a 16-year-old Vining boy in April. Jason Vadner, 35, of Wheaton, is charged with criminal vehicular homicide/operate motor vehicle in grossly negligent...

In the July 6 edition of the Pioneer Journal Wadena County Human Services Director Tanya Leskey said: "Our model is similar in some ways to the model in Morrison County. What is unique about our drop-in center is that it's peer run." However, like the Human Services drop in center...

20 years ago Excerpts from the July 10, 1997 Pioneer Journal • $200,000 in cash seized in drug bust