!--paging_filter--pLitchfield Fire Department held a controlled burn Saturday morning at a house on North Sibley Avenue. The controlled burn allowed firefighters to work with firefighting equipment and to get used to being in a house on fire in a somewhat safe environment. Once they had finished their training, the firefighters let the house — which the owners wanted destroyed — burn to the ground while keeping the fire from spreading elsewhere. For more photos and information about the controlled burn, see the Sept. 23 print edition of the Independent Review./p br class="clear" / pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/H7RS2L6nn3FVeoFEL8gqS5ULCVw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/H7RS2L6nn3FVeoFEL8gqS5ULCVw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/H7RS2L6nn3FVeoFEL8gqS5ULCVw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/H7RS2L6nn3FVeoFEL8gqS5ULCVw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/independentreview-mainfeed/~4/iHJ3EhpZJK8" height="1" width="1"/

!--paging_filter--p The news was almost too good to believe. /p p Several local school districts that are struggling to keep their budget out of the red as they make cuts and cope with delayed state education funding are now looking at how to spend money from the federal government. /p p A federal initiative, called the Education Jobs Fund program, is providing $10 billion in assistance to states, including $167 million to Minnesota, to save or create education jobs for the 2010-11 school year. /p br class="clear" /pa href="http://independentreview.net/news/education/loca-school-districts-eagerly-await-federal-jobs-funding-109"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bQY6BsjGeH90KULxauNk7Lm0FsU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bQY6BsjGeH90KULxauNk7Lm0FsU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bQY6BsjGeH90KULxauNk7Lm0FsU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bQY6BsjGeH90KULxauNk7Lm0FsU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/independentreview-mainfeed/~4/AA3NSK461OU" height="1" width="1"/

!--paging_filter--p Eden Valley-Watkins Superintendent Larry Peterson issued a statement last week about the school’s investigation of an alleged incident involving members of the 2010 baseball team. /p p Without giving details of the allegations, he said the April incident was “promptly investigated,” with nine students interviewed. The interviews did not substantiate allegations or conclude a violation of district or Minnesota State High School League rules had taken place, the statement said. /p br class="clear" /pa href="http://independentreview.net/news/education/ev-w-investigates-alleged-incident-baseball-team-finds-no-violation-109"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XBUwh3txaFt1kfpJVbNxmMfxRHE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XBUwh3txaFt1kfpJVbNxmMfxRHE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XBUwh3txaFt1kfpJVbNxmMfxRHE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XBUwh3txaFt1kfpJVbNxmMfxRHE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/independentreview-mainfeed/~4/tcIRnAgCINQ" height="1" width="1"/

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!--paging_filter--pAugust 2010 milk production totaled 754 million pounds in Minnesota, down 0.8 percent from the 760 million pounds produced in August 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Minnesota Field Office. Revised July milk output was 787 million pounds./p br class="clear" /pa href="http://independentreview.net/news/business-agriculture/minnesotas-milk-output-down-8-percent-109"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uxrJ0iDX9KhdcqUejeskSzDZJQU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uxrJ0iDX9KhdcqUejeskSzDZJQU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uxrJ0iDX9KhdcqUejeskSzDZJQU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uxrJ0iDX9KhdcqUejeskSzDZJQU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/independentreview-mainfeed/~4/ZfWPSYTb_Sg" height="1" width="1"/

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!--paging_filter--pWill MacDonald of Bismarck, N.D., inspects one of the Salers cattle at the K Bar K Cattle Co. of rural Litchfield. MacDonald was among about 100 people who took part in the National Salers Tour, which stopped at K Bar K, owned by Dan and Teresa Kohls farm Friday. The Kohls family has about 110 head of Salers cattle on their farm. Read more about the event in the Sept. 23 print edition of the Independent Review./p br class="clear" / pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dqS823IzhegOIkEGbWx-r6kuStY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dqS823IzhegOIkEGbWx-r6kuStY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dqS823IzhegOIkEGbWx-r6kuStY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dqS823IzhegOIkEGbWx-r6kuStY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/independentreview-mainfeed/~4/t1pehepymQA" height="1" width="1"/

!--paging_filter--pBe smart and be safe. That’s the message from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) as many farmers across Minnesota gear up for fall harvest. In observance of National Farm Safety and Health Week September 19-25, MDA is offering tips and advice to ensure all Minnesotans are safe, whether harvesting fields or encountering farm equipment on roadways./p br class="clear" /pa href="http://independentreview.net/news/business-agriculture/mda-encourages-safety-and-awareness-during-upcoming-harvest-season-109"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wb1M-y5aZJqSCfPXhSYjyxBa81k/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wb1M-y5aZJqSCfPXhSYjyxBa81k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wb1M-y5aZJqSCfPXhSYjyxBa81k/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wb1M-y5aZJqSCfPXhSYjyxBa81k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/independentreview-mainfeed/~4/Bt1R-dhFqAg" height="1" width="1"/

!--paging_filter--pThe Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will auction a select inventory of confiscated outdoors equipment on Saturday, Sept. 18, at the Hiller Auction Barn in Zimmerman, Minn. The barn is located two miles east of the Highway 169 and the County Road 4 intersection in Zimmerman./p pInventory will be available for preview/inspection on Friday, Sept. 17 from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., and on Saturday, Sept. 18, from 8 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. The auction starts at 11 a.m./p pThe auction will include nearly 300 rifles, shotguns, and bows seized by conservation officers over the past four years./p br class="clear" /pa href="http://independentreview.net/news/outdoors-recreation/dnr-firearms-bows-and-outdoor-equipment-sale-sept-18-109"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/r6yV2OvpjppHmcMwHcC_HEhKbJs/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/r6yV2OvpjppHmcMwHcC_HEhKbJs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/r6yV2OvpjppHmcMwHcC_HEhKbJs/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/r6yV2OvpjppHmcMwHcC_HEhKbJs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/independentreview-mainfeed/~4/V1gbpFgSzwU" height="1" width="1"/

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!--paging_filter--pLitchfield native David O'Fallon, chief executive officer of the MacPhail Center for Music, last week was named new president of the Minnesota Humanities Center. He will start in the new position Nov. 1. Read about him here: a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/108941" title="http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/108941"http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/108941/a/p br class="clear" / pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bYSxpFQQbeINg5oqhWVyDp4FlSg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bYSxpFQQbeINg5oqhWVyDp4FlSg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bYSxpFQQbeINg5oqhWVyDp4FlSg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bYSxpFQQbeINg5oqhWVyDp4FlSg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/independentreview-mainfeed/~4/wjqltmH4sy4" height="1" width="1"/

!--paging_filter--pAre you interested in reading the public notices published in the Sept. 16, 2010 print edition of the Independent Review newspaper? The page or pages on which those notices were printed are attached./p br class="clear" / pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/GSWSszs6YlTeY1a5VVMrhvtGUPc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/GSWSszs6YlTeY1a5VVMrhvtGUPc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/GSWSszs6YlTeY1a5VVMrhvtGUPc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/GSWSszs6YlTeY1a5VVMrhvtGUPc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/independentreview-mainfeed/~4/auNZVJYGuvE" height="1" width="1"/

!--paging_filter--pBy Sharon Rolencbr / MINNESOTA NEWS CONNECTION/p pEthanol is one of several important issues that the Minnesota Farmers Union is hoping to take up with lawmakers in Washington this week. Many would like to see the blender tax credit extended and the ethanol blend rate increased from 10 to 15 percent. The blender tax credits, which are given to oil companies as an incentive to blend ethanol with gasoline, are set to expire this year. Critics of the extension say oil companies have been subsidized long enough./p br class="clear" /pa href="http://independentreview.net/news/business-agriculture/minnesota-farmers-take-ethanol-discussion-washington-109"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/LLLkwz_Ue_tbUyhrLL0nNozwcp4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/LLLkwz_Ue_tbUyhrLL0nNozwcp4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/LLLkwz_Ue_tbUyhrLL0nNozwcp4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/LLLkwz_Ue_tbUyhrLL0nNozwcp4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/independentreview-mainfeed/~4/An79h8RFFxk" height="1" width="1"/

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!--paging_filter--pMinnesota Department of Natural Resources Conservation Officer (CO) Wayne Hatlestad (Litchfield) checked angling, boating, and personal watercraft (PWC) activity. Additional time was spent checking and advising boaters of invasive species. Hatlestad also checked goose and dove hunting activity, and attended required training./p br class="clear" /pa href="http://independentreview.net/news/outdoors-recreation/weekly-conservation-officer-reports-109-0"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/I4dy0sruPr1zRTeP2QQH64Cd8go/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/I4dy0sruPr1zRTeP2QQH64Cd8go/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/I4dy0sruPr1zRTeP2QQH64Cd8go/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/I4dy0sruPr1zRTeP2QQH64Cd8go/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/independentreview-mainfeed/~4/b3JKbl7yz0E" height="1" width="1"/

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!--paging_filter--pHe granted Agrippa’s ask with alacrity, saying how really important it absolutely was to acquire the Eagles back, in add-on to the captives-if any of them experienced been nevertheless alive pursuing so long-and requested how shortly he can be ready to start.Agrippa was hurt, misunderstanding his manner. He believed that Augustus wished to acquire rid of him, undoubtedly believing that he was quarrelling with Marcellus concerning the succession. He thanked him for granting his request, coldly protested his loyalty and friendship, and stated that he was ready to sail the pursuing day./p br class="clear" / pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Z63AVRsAREUoLdCEm2RwVHqTgXo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Z63AVRsAREUoLdCEm2RwVHqTgXo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Z63AVRsAREUoLdCEm2RwVHqTgXo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Z63AVRsAREUoLdCEm2RwVHqTgXo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/independentreview-mainfeed/~4/YYLTPtpCm9Q" height="1" width="1"/

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!--paging_filter--pThe Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has obtained the exclusive right and option to purchase the former Minnesota Zephyr railroad line. The department intends to convert the line to a 6.5-mile recreational trail that would connect downtown Stillwater to the Gateway State Trail./p pUntil its last run on Dec. 31, 2008, the Minnesota Zephyr dinner train was a presence in Stillwater for more than 20 years, carrying more than a million passengers and becoming one of the community’s top attractions./p br class="clear" /pa href="http://independentreview.net/news/outdoors-recreation/dnr-obtains-exclusive-right-purchase-minnesota-zephyr-rail-line-109"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Q1-jEJaPjoinWx3SAhqTrTNzOGM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Q1-jEJaPjoinWx3SAhqTrTNzOGM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Q1-jEJaPjoinWx3SAhqTrTNzOGM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Q1-jEJaPjoinWx3SAhqTrTNzOGM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/independentreview-mainfeed/~4/otr9U28JwwY" height="1" width="1"/