Tori Mueller speaks with St. James Middle/High School students about teen suicide and self-harm
St. James Plaindealer
Throughout the school day on Monday, Tori Mueller, Treatment Director at Sioux Trails Mental Health Center, spoke with St. James Middle/Senior High School students on mental health, depression, anxiety, self-harm, and teen suicide.
Mueller was a guest on one of the Teen Talk podcast episodes conducted by St. James students. Mueller s familiarity with St. James her ability to connect with students was a large part of the reason why St. James Middle/High School Principal Karla Beck chose her to lead the presentations.
Five finalists for Jackson County Administrator
Mon 4-26-2021
(Jackson) The Jackson County Board of Commissioners is holding a special meeting on April 27
th to conduct finalist interviews for the position of Jackson County Administrator. There are 5 finalists for the position. As of 4/27, Janice Fransen will be the Interim Coordinator until the new Administrator is able to assume that position.Â
The five finalists for the newly created Jackson County Administrator position were released this morning. The finalists are:
Andrea Aukrust currently serves as the City Administrator for the City of Hector, Minnesota, where she has been in the position for nearly three years. Prior to that, she served as Co-Owner/Manager of Davis Rental Properties in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, for 18 years. She has also been employed as the Coordinator of the Faribault, Martin, and Jackson Multi-Counties Adult Substance Abuse and Family Dependency Treatment Courts through a contracted grant positio
Five County Administrator finalists named
Wed 4-7-2021
The five finalists for the newly created Jackson County Administrator position were released this morning. The finalists are:
Andrea Aukrust currently serves as the City Administrator for the City of Hector, Minnesota, where she has been in the position for nearly three years. Prior to that, she served as Co-Owner/Manager of Davis Rental Properties in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, for 18 years. She has also been employed as the Coordinator of the Faribault, Martin, and Jackson Multi-Counties Adult Substance Abuse and Family Dependency Treatment Courts through a contracted grant position with Mayo Health Systems for over one year. Other positions she has held include a grant position in Rehabilitative Services for the Sioux Trails Mental Health Center in New Ulm, Minnesota, for nearly two and a half years, and as the City Administrator/EDA Director for the City of Spicer, Minnesota, for one year. Ms. Aukrust holds bachelorâs
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BROWN COUNTY Â A civil case hearing involving the owner of a rural Sleepy Eye farm where seven horses and three donkeys were seized Nov. 23 continued on Tuesday using remote technology in Brown County District Court.
The Brown County Sheriff’s Office seized the animals from Sapphire Equestrian Farms, 26731 315th Avenue, just east of Evan. The farm is owned by Candi Lemarr.
According to a notice of seizure Minnesota Animal Law Chapter 343, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals filed in Brown County District Court Dec. 1, the animals were seized because they were malnourished, undernourished and lacking adequate feed.
The animals are being held at the Minnesota Hooved Animal Reserve in Zimmerman. Lemarr is contesting the seizure.
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NEW ULM Brown County Commissioners established 2021 salaries for county officials and their own salaries and per diem Tuesday.
Commissioners approved raising their annual salaries 2% to $26,705 in 2021, plus $1,500 additional for the board chair and $500 for the vice chair. Commissioner Tony Berg made the motion, seconded by Commissioner Dave Borchert. Daily per diem remained at $75.
County officials also received raises, all on motions by Berg, seconded by Borchert.
⢠Highway Engineer Wayne Stevens, 3% raise to $125,660.
⢠Human Services Director Barb Dietz, 3%, $115,566.
⢠Probation Director Les Schultz, 3.5%, $119,353. (His 2020 salary was incorrectly listed at $155,317 in Tuesday’s Journal).
⢠Sheriff Jason Seidl, 6%, $111,265. Commissioner Berg said Seidl was $7,000 below the 15-county mean.