Daylight savings time ends Sunday
Daylight savings time for 2008 ends Sunday, Nov. 2 at 2 a.m. (set your clocks back one hour).
Fire departments also remind this is good time to change batteries in smoke detectors.
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Monthly Archive for October, 2008
Last chance for veterans section
Submissions for this year’s Veterans’ Day publication are due Tuesday, Oct. 28.
Information published last year will be run this year. For any new information, a form is available in this week’s paper or at any of our offices.
Who will be elected Tuesday? We don’t know yet. Results will be posted here as soon as they are known Tuesday night.
Sen. Norm Coleman will be making a campaign stop in Delano Sunday, Oct. 19 at 6 p.m. at the Juke Box. Heading into the home stretch of the campaign season, Coleman’s campaign announced he will be meeting with people across the state to listen to their concerns and share with them his hope for Minnesota. Calling it “The Hope Express” tour, Coleman will lay out his eight-point plan to get the economy back on track. Prior to his stop in Delano, he will also be in Monticello at a location to be announced.
Two people died Saturday afternoon following a traffic accident on River Street/Franklin Avenue in Delano, according to the Minnesota State Patrol. The accident took place just after 5 p.m. on what is locally known as the “backage road,” just west of the Peppermint Twist.
David D. Thoele, 45, from Cologne, was driving a 1993 Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Thoele, along with his passenger, Mary K. Lofquist, 50, from Watertown, both died at the scene.
Initial investigation showed the driver of the motorcycle, traveling northeast, was unable to make the curve, laid the motorcycle on its side, and slid under a 1999 Chevy Silverado pick-up truck that was traveling southwest, according to the state patrol.
The truck was being driven by Michael G. Jopp, 21, from Willmar. Jopp along with his two passengers, Joshua D. Dragt, 26, from Willmar and Kyle D. Lush, 21, from Pennock, were uninjured in the accident.
The Wright County Sheriff’s Office and Delano Fire and Rescue assisted the state patrol at the scene.
Deadline is Tuesday to pre-register by mail
For residents who recently moved, voter registration can be made by
mail ahead of time through Tuesday, Oct. 14, or may be done election
day by bringing a current utility bill dated within 30 days of the
election, along with a picture ID, in order to establish residency.
To pre-register before Oct. 14, residents must send a request to the
county auditor in their respective county or do so online at the
Minnesota Secretary of State’s office at www.sos.state.mn.us.
Wright County
Send requests to Wright Co. Election Division, 10 Second St. NW Room
230, Buffalo, MN 55313.
Hennepin County
Applications are available online at www.co.hennepin.mn.us.
