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Production supervisor Edward Grant, left and office service coordinator Marvin Goodman explain the one-way foot traffic policy at Cushman & Wakefield global commercial real estate services, July 17, 2020, in Chicago. Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune / TNS
Coronavirus

COVID-19 vaccinations are accelerating, forcing CEOs to plot a return to the office sooner than expected. ‘Yes, you can ask for proof’

Paul and Josie Syverson enjoy the change of pace their operation offers them compared to their off-farm jobs. Photo taken March, 26, 2021, at Clontarf, Minn. (Emily Beal / Agweek)
Agriculture

Minnesota family upholds farm's rich history, while writing new chapters

Business

Hearings set to discuss Otter Tail Power rate increase proposal

A Minnesota company is celebrating its 50th year of making farming more efficient.
Business

H&S Manufacturing has remained nimble to keep up with specialty crop needs

Paul Mindermann, who works in the engineering department for the Brunswick boat plant in New York Mills, Minn., gets his Johnson & Johnson shot during a vaccine clinic on Thursday, April 8. Norman Bell / WDAY
Coronavirus

Brunswick employees help lead vaccine push in Otter Tail County

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Continue to grow and find best practices in your work routines, whether it's working from home permanently or in a hybrid set up with limited in-office days, says Katie Pinke, Agweek publisher, who has worked from home for more than 16 years. (Shutterstock photo)
Agriculture

9 work-from-home best practices for 2021

Excavators move earth along the Dakota Access Pipeline route east of Williston, N.D., during its construction in late July 2016. Eric Hylden / Forum News Service
Energy and Mining

Biden administration punts on DAPL shutdown, likely leaving pipeline's fate to federal judge

Protesters use the “sleeping dragon” method of locking themselves together on Friday, April 9, 2021, outside of Enbridge’s Bemidji office. (Jillian Gandsey / Bemidji Pioneer)
Energy and Mining

Line 3 pipeline protesters block entrances to Enbridge offices in Bemidji

Brandon and Erika Goette are growing their lamb and beef direct-marketing enterprises, as well as raising children: Kora, 3, Kaleb, 1, and Kaiden, 4 months. Photo taken March 5, 2021, at Bricelyn, Minn. Mikkel Pates / Agweek
Agriculture

Livestock couple skips a generation, direct-markets beef, lamb

George Floyd, standing at right, can be seen in this May 25, 2020, image from security cameras at Cup Foods in Minneapolis. The security video was entered into evidence Wednesday, March 31, 2021, in the trial of Derek Chauvin. Chauvin is facing charges in Floyd's death which occurred not long after Floyd's interaction inside Cup Foods. (Forum News Service)
Derek Chauvin Trial

Store clerk's testimony at Derek Chauvin trial triggers talk of expectations for retail workers to stop theft

A Minnesota Real ID has a gold star in the upper right-hand corner. (Contributed photo)
Transportation

More than 100,000 Minnesota drivers have invalid licenses now that COVID-19 extension has ended

Bob Hansen, center, director of the Hubbard County Food Shelf, accepts a $3,000 donation Tuesday, March 30 from Citizens National Bank employees Megan Eskola, Debbie Schultz, Trish Shierts and Jody Kirkham. Bank employees donated $500 from their Blue Jeans Friday fund and added individual donations, which the bank matched up to a certain dollar amount. (Photo submitted March 30, 2021 by Citizens National Bank)
Business

Bank matches employees’ donations

Scott and Pam Wilson haven't opened the Park Theatre in downtown Park Rapids in more than a year – partly due, they said, to the effects on the film industry of ongoing movie theater closures in California and New York. (Robin Fish/Enterprise, March 24, 2021)
Business

Reopening timeline still out of focus for Park Theatre

This is the second year Forum Communications Co. will be offering matching grants to help advertisers get more bang for their buck. Special to The Forum.
Business

Forum Communications brings back $1 million grant program to help communities rebuild

Harry's Bar and Grill food manager Randy Ihle stands in the bar area of the Hill City restaurant. Business declined to about 20% of pre-pandemic levels when Harry's was forced to only offer carry-out. Now that indoor dining is open again business is up to 60-70% and owners credit most of that to the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline construction project bringing in new customers. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
Energy and Mining

Line 3 promised to be a boon to northern Minnesota’s economy. Halfway into construction, has it lived up to its promise?

Join Agweek's Emily Beal as she learns more about NDSU's Bison Strides Equine Therapy program.
Agriculture

North Dakota State University equine therapy 'unlike anything I can provide in the clinic'

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Business

Northstar Materials pays MPCA penalty

Many couples have complained about missing photos from one wedding photographer including these six; (clockwise from upper left) Luke and Kim Weiss, Daniel and Kelsea Testa, Savannah and Andrew Dodson, Jessica Riester and her family, Cody and Marissa Wildner, and Allison Niese and her finance, Noah Lane. (Post Bulletin photo illustration, contributed photos)
Small Business

She took their money. She took their pictures. Then a Rochester photographer disappeared

A long time empty rural school house in Noem, N.D., is once more in use, as a budding fiber arts center.
Agriculture

Nome Schoolhouse sees new life as fiber arts center

Anika Pinke, age 11, participated in two virtual 4-H archery events in March 2021 in the junior barebow division. Photo taken at the Northwood, N.D. Community Center, March 6, 2021. (Katie Pinke / Agweek)
Agriculture

Reviving an old idea helps archery keep up with the times