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Newly available to businesses, farms, multi-family housing, nonprofits, and places of worship in Kandiyohi County PACE, a new financing tool called Property-Assessed Clean Energy, provides project financing that is repaid as a separate item on property tax assessments for a set period. In this way, PACE eliminates the burden of upfront costs by providing low-cost, long-term financing. […]
SPICER—For nearly 60 years the hardware store in Spicer has been known as Vegdahl’s. When new owners take over Jan. 19 and the store is renamed Bonnema Hardware and Flooring, it will most likely still be known as Vegdahl’s. “I’ll be calling it Vegdahl’s,” said Mark Bonnema, who is purchasing the business that has been […]
WILLMAR—When Dr. Thomas Lange removes a patient’s gall bladder or Dr. Jennifer Lee-Pentz performs a simple hysterectomy, their snips and sutures are careful, dexterous and precise. Except they’re not standing directly over the patient. They’re a few feet away, using robotic technology to perform the surgery. Rice Memorial Hospital introduced robotic-assisted surgery last summer for […]
WILLMAR, MN—In an era when unmanned aerial systems seem to be the inevitable future for agricultural data collection, one implement dealer has started offering a service of collecting data for customers with a Cessna airplane, flown by an actual pilot. Haug Implement of Willmar, Minn., offers data gathering and processing service in central Minnesota, and […]
WILLMAR—A $25,000 grant from the Blandin Foundation has been awarded to study the lack of broadband Internet service in Kandiyohi County. Word that the grant had been approved came Wednesday, said Connie Schmoll, business development specialist with the Kandiyohi County and City of Willmar Economic Development Commission. Schmoll told the EDC operations board Thursday that […]
