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A 16-year-old Wadena girl died Monday night from severe head trauma suffered in an ATV rollover just south of town. Christine Kaye Alberts was driving a Polaris Ranger southbound on Apache Avenue at about 20 miles per hour when she swerved toward the ditch, according Wadena County...

Betty Stark may be gone, but her legacy lives on. When the Wadena woman died last year at 84 years old, she left her entire estate to seven area organizations. Wadena's First Congregational United Church of Christ, the Maslowski Wellness and Research Center, the Wadena County...

Four Wadena-Deer Creek FFA members, along with the Staples-Motley FFA chapter, traveled to St. Paul, March 27 to celebrate FFA Day at the Capitol. There, they met with the Minnesota State FFA officers and other state FFA staff. After the protocol meeting, they met with State Representative...

On April 9, Wadena-Deer Creek sixth-grade students graduated from the D.A.R.E. program in a special ceremony held in the WDC Middle/High School Gymnasium. Wadena Police Officer Nick Grabe taught the DARE curriculum, "Keepin' It Real" to WDC sixth-graders. DARE stands for Drug Abuse...

Colby Abazs (Finland, Minn.) and Josh Hammer (Staples, Minn.), CLC photography students, competed in a Statewide SkillsUSA Photography competition in the Twin Cities. The conference was a showcase of career and technical education students in which more than 800 outstanding students...