MANKATO — U. S. Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minnesota, toured the new Kasota Prairie Community Solar Garden north of Mankato Thursday. The $3 million, 4.5 megawatt solar garden with 4,000 solar panels on eight acres is estimated to provide power to 200 homes, according to solar officials. The ...
SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — Rotting fish and garbage lie scattered in Sanibel Island's streets. On the mainland, debris from washed-away homes is heaped in a canal like matchsticks. Huge shrimp boats sit perched amid the remains of a mobile home park. "Think of a snow globe. Pick it up and shake it — that's what happened," said Fred Szott. For the past three days, he and his wife Joyce have been making trips to their damaged mobile home in Fort Myers, cleaning up after Hurricane Ian slammed into Florida's Gulf Coast. As for the emotional turbulence, he says: "You either hold ...
NEW ULM — New Ulm Medical Center is changing the name of its Urgent Care Department and moving back to its pre-pandemic location. Effective Thursday, Oct. 13, NUMC’s Urgent Care will be rebranded “Express Care” and moved back to the Primary Care Clinic. The actual service will ...
FORT MYERS, Florida (AP) — President Joe Biden surveyed the devastation of hurricane-ravaged Florida on Wednesday, promising to marshal the power of the federal government to help rebuild as he comforted local residents alongside Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential 2024 foe. Biden praised DeSantis' handling of the storm recovery as both men — who have battled over pandemic protocols and migration as the governor mulls a presidential bid — put aside politics for a few days. The state is struggling to recover from the wreckage of Hurricane Ian, which tore through southwestern ...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire has resumed COVID-19 mobile vaccination clinics and a homebased vaccination program. "As we move into the fall and winter, we want to make sure everyone has access to the updated COVID-19 booster doses that better protect against the most recently circulating COVID-19 variants," Patricia Tilley, the state's director of Public Health Services, said in a statement Tuesday. Three mobile vaccination vans are available to provide free COVID-19 vaccine, both primary series and update booster doses. Public and private clinics will be available ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, a self-described "car guy,'' often promises to lead by example on climate change by moving swiftly to convert the sprawling U.S. government fleet to zero-emission electric vehicles. But efforts to eliminate gas-powered vehicles from the fleet have lagged. Biden last year directed the U.S. government to purchase only American-made, zero-emission passenger cars by 2027 and electric versions of other vehicles by 2035. "We're going to harness the purchasing power of the federal government to buy clean, zero-emission vehicles," the president said ...
