Two new members join the council; two were re-elected 6:00 am, Jan. 16, 2021 ×
Moorhead City Council member Matt Gilbertson takes the oath of office as he is sworn by Judge Jade Rosenfeldt in on Monday, Jan. 11.
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MOORHEAD Four Moorhead City Council members were sworn in to four-year terms just before the Monday, Jan. 11, meeting.
Two of the members are new to the nine-member council composed of two members from each of the city s four wards and the mayor. They are Matt Gilbertson of Ward 1, which encompasses north Moorhead, while Laura Caroon, who ran unopposed in the November election, will serve Ward 2, which includes most of the east-central part of the city.
Moorhead close to formal ban on feeding wild turkeys
A fed turkey is a dead turkey
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Dec 16, 2020
Penny the turkey in Bloomington was shot by the Minnesota DNR after residents continued to feed him, causing him to grow too comfortable with humans, the DNR said.
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Nearly a year since residents packed a public meeting to debate the future of wild turkeys in Moorhead, the city is one step closer to enforcing a key part of its master plan: a ban against feeding the animals.
The city already has a ban on feeding all wildlife, but in light of the city s growing population of at least 158 turkeys (per a drone flyover last year), the city council wants to add language specifying that feeding turkeys is forbidden. It unanimously passed the first reading of the proposal at its meeting Monday.