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- New commissioners get to work
District 2 Commissioner Loren Tusa, a five-year board veteran, was unanimously elected chairman of the Jackson County Board of Commissioners, while District 4 Commissioner Roger Ringkob, also a five-year ...
- Luxury on ice
Robert Peters, and Dave Reese, both of Adrian, fish in the comfort of Reese's spacious ice house Tuesday afternoon on Lake Okabena in Worthington.
- Crews respond to barn fire
The Okabena Fire Department was summoned Sunday afternoon to a rural Brewster barn fire.
- Undercover swan
One of Worthington's resident swans blends in with the landscape late Wednesday afternoon as it hides among the brush along Sunset Bay on Lake Okabena.
- Annual meeting: Federated REA a pillar o...
In a business climate rife with volatility, Federated Rural Electric Association has been a pillar of stability - in terms of operations, finances and rates.
- Tusa and Schultz claim commissioner seats
By Ryan Brinks Retired teacher Rosemary Schultz rallied enough write-in support to edge opponent Victor Pohlman by a 52 percent-48 percent margin in the District 3 race for the Jackson County Board of ...
- Write-in campaign makes another race for commissioner
By Ryan Brinks Rosemary Schultz of Lakefield recently decided to throw her hat into the ring of candidates for Jackson County commissioner, making District 3 a race between her and Victor Pohlman of rural ...
- Massive countywide search ends with rescue
By Justin Lessman One of the county's most extensive-search-and rescue operations in recent memory ended last week with the successful recovery of an elderly Lakefield woman in a swampy wooded area southeast of ...
- Historical Whodunit
By Mike Jordan A 1933 bank robbery in Okabena historically attributed to infamous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde may not have happened exactly how history records.
- Trucker crashes while choking
Three buses belonging to the Russell-Tyler-Ruthton School District were damaged in an accident Tuesday afternoon.
- First, she said sorry ... then she robbed the bank
Booking photo from the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center for Kristine Bridget Elizabeth Lacy, DOB 10/9/1985, of Minneapolis, who was named in a federal complaint on 7/21/2008 and accused of bank robbery in ...
- First, she said sorry ... then she robbed the bank
At least she apologized in advance. A woman walked into a Brooklyn Center bank, waited her turn in line and after striding up to a teller, handed her a note that read, "Give me all your money.
- New segment of trail to be dedicated Saturday
A new quarter-million-dollar section of paved trail that runs around the south and west edges of Jackson will be officially dedicated this Saturday.
- Overnight: Windsurfing National Championships in Worthing
All of that wind blowing across the plains of southwestern Minnesota has to be good for something, and from June 11 to June 15 it will be put to use.
- Holy Week kidnapping allegation lands Lakefield man in jail
By Justin R. Lessman A Lakefield man is in jail, charged with kidnapping and two counts of domestic assault, following an incident in which he allegedly dragged his shoeless girlfriend out of her bathroom and ...
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City DescriptionOkabena is a city in Jackson County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 185 at the 2000 census. The community name is a native term for "Nesting place of heron."
Most of the original settlers were driven out around 1862 due to a native uprising, but settlers began returning after the Civil War.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.2 square miles (0.5 km²), all of it land.
The community is located on County Roads 9 and 20 west of South Heron Lake.
As of the census of 2000, there were 185 people, 76 households, and 49 families residing in the city. The population density was 893.3 people per square mile (340.1/km²). There were 87 housing units at an average density of 420.1/sq mi (160.0/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 100.00% White. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.49% of the population.
There were 76 households out of which 28.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.6% were married couples living together, 7.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.5% were non-families. 32.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 19.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or ... Read MoreCity Contained By:Timezones:Size:- 0.517997622067 km squared
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