By Teri Knight, News Director
Three Counties assisted with a suspect wanted in a fourth county. Yesterday morning around 8:30, while Rice County Deputies were dispatched to 30th Street and Hazelwood Avenue in Webster Township on a 911 hang up call, Scott County Deputies located a vehicle parked at 3050 Hazelwood Avenue that was being sought by Washington County in a gun pointing incident. Deputies set up a perimeter and began searching for the 33 year old male suspect associated with the vehicle. The suspect was spotted about 30 minutes later by a Rice Co. Deputy and fled to a wood line where he was taken into custody without incident. Sheriff Dunn said they’re not certain at
this time if the 911 call was related to the incident but they are investigating. Agencies involved in the search included, Deputies from Rice, Scott and Dakota Counties, Minnesota State Patrol and DNR, Agents from the Cannon River Drug and Violent Offender Task force and a Farmington PD K9 Handler. The suspect was released to Washington County.
Hillmann “goes on record” for compassion
Superintendent Dr. Matt Hillmann cautioned the community yesterday morning as he commented on the increase in covid-19 cases, “one thing I’ve just heard a few things about and I just want to go on record with the community here is just let’s make sure we check ourselves when we’re talking about the virus and about who or where we might perceive the virus may be popping up”. As the virus loves people in groups, he added, “but what we know human nature is as you start to more cases people begin to wonder, where is it, oh I think it must be over here or those folks must have it”. He says as a community we need to resist that, “this thing is going to end. When it does end we want to be able to look back at the community and be proud of ourselves in this very trying time”. So far he’s been proud of how Northfield’s handled it with kindness and concern. The perception of who may or may not have covid-19 can lead to discrimination. He said, “so we just need to continue to be supportive and compassionate with each other, and I think that as a school district that’s one of our important pieces is to make sure we keep trying to move the community forward in this very difficult time”. Hillmann’s full interview is HERE.
Dundas closes Pavillion to rentals
Dundas Council met last night. Administrator Jenelle Teppen asked council to consider closing the Memorial Park Pavillion to rentals this year, which they agreed to. With guidelines from the League of MN Cities, she said, “the City’s liability is at risk if we don’t go in and sanitize after every use and we simply don’t have the staff to be able to do that on a very regular basis”. They would have spent more in cleaning products and staff than the dollars they would receive by keeping it open. She added, “we’re going to have signs installed at the playground because we’re not going to sanitize playground equipment, notifying residents that we aren’t cleaning them and they’re playing at their own risk”. Her full interview is HERE.
