The Windom Police Department reported there has a been a decline in accidents in the past four years. Statistics from January to December in 2019 there were 162 accidents with 7 injuries. 2020 showed 113 accidents with four injuries. 2021 rose to 135 accidents with 18 injuries and one fatality and in 2022 the total decreased to 134 accidents with 20 injuries.
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January Weather Stats 2/1/23
The monthly weather statistics have been reported for the city of Windom in January. The information is compiled by Dave Fjeld, the local weather observer and reported to the National Weather Service Office in Sioux Falls. January precipitation, which includes rain and melted snow, was one and seventy nine hundredths of an inch. That compares to one and 29 hundredths in 2022. Snowfall amounts are also up from 2022. In January we received 18.3 inches compared to 12.3 inches in 2022. The high temperature in January was 39 degrees on the 16th. Our low for the month was 10 below on January 30th and 31st. The average high was 25.8 degrees and the low averaged just 9.6 degrees.
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Fulda City Council will hold a meeting on Monday, February 6th at 5pm in the Fulda City Hall.
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Mt Lake City Council will be meeting on Monday February 6th at 6:30pm in the Mt Lake City Hall.
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Murray County Board of Commissioners will be meeting Tuesday February 7th at 8:30am in the Murray County Government Center. If you would like to listen in by calling or view the meeting via zoom you can find the information on the Murray County Homepage.
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The Cottonwood County Board of Commissioners will be meeting Tuesday February 7th at 9:05am at the Cottonwood County Courthouse in the Commissioners Room.
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Jury selection starts on Monday February 6th for a Windom man charged with second degree murder. Ralph Leslie Apmann was in a fight with the victim Juan Luis Morales-Rivera of Worthington in the back of Phat Pheasant Pub on August 26, 202. Apmann admitted to police officers he and Morales-Rivera had been playing pool and when he left to go have a cigarette out back, Morales-Rivera had punched him in the head, at that time Apmann grabbed the victim around the waist, picked him up and tackled him to the ground and placed a choke hold on him until he stopped struggling. Morales-Rivera was taken to the Windom Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Apmann is facing charges of second-degree murder without intent while committing a felony. The trial is scheduled to last approximately two weeks and all court proceedings are open to the public.
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Okay so yesterday was Ground Hog Day and if you haven’t heard, Punxsutawney Phil is a nasty little rodent. That’s right, according to legend if Phil sees his shadow six more weeks of winter is to come… Uggh… I can’t believe how disappointed I am in this groundhog… I am definitely three days past my tolerance of this winter…
As for today, it is National The Day the Music Died Day. Today we remember the unfortunate and untimely death of singers 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 17-year-old Ritchie Valens, and 28-year-old J. P. Richardson, aka: “The Big Bopper.” These three artists died in an airplane accident on February 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa. Their pilot, Roger Peterson, also perished in the crash.
Don’t forget it is also National Carrot Cake Day too… I mean you get to eat cake and count it as a veggie too!!! Life is good!!!