Redwood Falls, Minnesota

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• Deer hits passenger riding in car near Redwood Falls
  

  A Redwood Falls woman was injured after a deer collided with the car in which she was a passenger Wednesday night, the Minnesota State Patrol said.

• About Bud
  

  After high school, I tried several jobs looking for the right fit. I worked for 5 years for commercial airlines before I took a wild notion to try radio.

• 5 running for Redwood County Commis.....
  

  Five people have filed to fill a vacant seat on the Redwood County Board, the Redwood County Auditor/Treasurer's Office said Monday.

• Heavy snow heads into heart of state
  

  A storm arriving this afternoon coat parts of Minnesota with snow: 6 to 8 inches in the north, 4 to 6 inches in the center and 2 to 4 inches in the south.

• Man conquers cancer - twice
  

  It's a good thing Del Smith has a naturally bright and determined personality. He's needed it.

• Yuck: Weekend weather advisory for the area
  

  Submitted by Pat Minelli on January 2, 2009 - 4:39pm. Scott County is under a winter weather advisory for snow, sleet and blowing snow from noon Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday, according to the National Weather ...

• Gregory Edmund Gits
  

  Services for Gregory Edmund Gits, 78, of Bemidji will be at 11:30 a.m., Friday at St.

• Keith Cocker
  

  Funeral services for Keith Cocker, 87, of Redwood Falls, formerly of Marshall, will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday from St.

• Local cities deal with LGA cuts
  

  Faced with a $4.8 billion state budget deficit in the next biennium, Minnesota cities were recently handed 2008 Local Government Aid cuts that averaged 22 percen.

• Rumor: Kuju zombie shooter 'Redwood Falls' shelved
  

  Infected monkeys not withstanding, games about the undead are all the rage, which is why we're puzzled at UK-based Kuju Entertainment's apparent decision to shelve Redwood Falls .

• Winter storm, winds slam area
  

  High winds and subzero wind chills made for treacherous driving conditions throughout the region on Saturday and Sunday, but law enforcement officers reported no major problems in the area.

• Blizzard begins in southwestern Minnesota
  

  Snow has been falling all morning, and a blizzard warning is in effect in southwestern Minnesota.

• Temperatures approach record lows
  

  After enjoying 35 degree temperatures Sunday morning, Steele County was locked into around 35 degree below zero wind chills Monday with not much hope of hitting the "high" temperatures in sight.

• Taxes rise faster than values
  

  With a 10.1% tax hike this year, New Ulm's property tax burden climbed from 47th to 46th among 226 greater Minnesota cities with more than 2,000 population, according to a study done by the non-profit Citizens ...

• MN National Guard to deploy in February
  

  Cpl. William Parker of Redwood Falls, Minn., and Spc. Brent Haataja of Menahga, Minn., both of Company B, 194th Combined Arms Battalion, Minnesota Army National Guard, pause before leading Iraqi Policemen to a ...

• Echo woman airlifted from Redwood County crash
  

  VESTA a ' A 27-year-old Echo woman was airlifted from the scene of a one-vehicle rollover crash around 11 p.m. Wednesday along Highway 19 two miles east of Vesta.

• Slow morning commute after snow storm
  

  Commuters found driving tricky this morning in the Twin Cities and southeastern Minnesota.

• Careless smoking may have caused ho.....
  

  Authorities Wednesday announced three key pieces of information about a house fire in Redwood Falls that claimed the life of a 40 year-old woman Tuesday night.

• Funding for drug task force on county board agenda
  

  Brown County commissioners will hear a presentation this morning from the local drug task force and the current situation concerning the organization's financial resources.

City Description

Redwood Falls is a city in Redwood and Renville County counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 5,459 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Redwood County. As the immigrant and Euro-American population of the North American east coast region grew, population pressures affected people far inland. People moved west to find new homes as more and more land was used by farmers. By 1700, Ojibwe and Dakota Oyate (nation) had come to what is now Minnesota and had come into conflict with each other. In 1825, the United States government decreed a separation of the two groups. The Ojibwe were to live north of the boundary; the Dakota to the south. By the 1840s, most of the Dakota lived along the Mississippi River and Minnesota River in what is now the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. The traditional Dakota yearly cycle of farming, hunting, fishing, and gathering wild rice had been unalterably interrupted by cultural changes. Permanent farms were established by settlers. Forests were removed for timber and farmland in eastern Minnesota. Wild game like bison, elk, whitetail deer, and bear had been hunted so intensively that populations were tiny compared to the

City Contained By:

• Redwood County
• Minnesota
• Renville County

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 12.4319429296 km squared

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