The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission and the Swift County Board of Commissioners co-hosted a public hearing on a permit request by Dooley's Natural Gas for a $13.9 million pipeline project.
On a 3-to-2 vote, the Swift County Board of Commissioners awarded the low bid for a project to construct an addition to the Human Services building and improve the existing building.
The Swift County Board of Commissioners and the Benson City Council have approved full affiliation agreements to join Swift County-Benson Health Services with CentraCare. The Swift County-Benson Hospital District Board is expected to approve the affiliation on Monday.
This is such a difficult time to lose someone: grieving and social distancing just do not work together, wrote the daughters of one victim who died in April.
According to the county s coroner, as of March 26, 2021, some 974 people had died of COVID-19 here since the pandemic took its first local life a year ago, on March 26, 2020.
Many have had their lives recounted on the obituary pages of LNP | LancasterOnline, but only a small number of those tributes have publicly confirmed that their deaths were related to COVID-19.
Here are 85 coronavirus victims whose LNP | LancasterOnline obituaries or other reports publicly cited the disease s role in their deaths. They are but a fraction of the ongoing pandemic s local toll so far.
Swift County approves patrol contract for Murdock
The Swift County Sheriff s office will dedicate patrol hours to the city of Murdock under an agreement identical to one in place with the city of Kerkhoven. The city of Murdock requested the contract for dedicated patrol hours. 5:55 am, Dec. 19, 2020 ×
The Murdock City Council approved a contract Dec. 9 for dedicated patrol hours from the Swift County Sheriff s Office. The Swift County Board of Commissioners approved the contract at its meeting Dec. 15.
Mark Wasson / West Central Tribune file photo
BENSON The city of Murdock will be contracting with the Swift County Sheriff’s Office to increase the presence of patrols by deputies in the community.