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Top Stories from Jordan, Minnesota

Dan Patch Line provision taken out of policy blil

By Shannon Fiecke

It almost seemed too good to be true when a provision allowing consideration of commuter rail on the Dan Patch Line sailed through the state Legislature this session.

Given the substantial support for the provision, neighboring state senators Kevin Dahle and Claire Robling were not happy when the proposal was pulled from a transportation policy bill this week.


Students, DNR stock Mill Pond (video)

Yesterday (Wednesday), students from Jordan High School helped two Minnesota Department of Natural Resources fisheries specialists transplant bluegill, bass, and crappie from Pelican Lake in Wright County into the Mill Pond in Lagoon Park. Garrett Prochaska is the student featured at the end of the video clip.

 


Anatomy of an accident scene

Walter “Wally” Cobb of Jordan died last week when he lost control of his Harley Davidson motorcycle and was hit by a train near the intersection of Frontage Road and County Road 9 in Jordan.


guard crossings at the railroad tracks

My sons' lost their father ,Wally Cobb in that tragic motorcycle accident on May 1st. His oldest had to go to prom without him. Who is to say that guard crossings would have help,but what will it take to put them there? Another tragic life taken. Please come together as a community and insist that they are put there. There won't be a day that passes by that we won't remember him. Just don't put another family through this same pain,if it can be avoided!


A motorcycle accident by the numbers

Here is a look at some of the numbers involved in the May 1 motorcycle accident that killed Jordan’s Walter L. Cobb:

2
fatal accidents along the Union Pacific track in Jordan in the past three years

3,300
feet, approximately, between the train crossing at which Cobb died and the crossing at which Scott Fahrenkamp died on Jan. 12, 2006


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May 9, 2008 - 8:27am
Home time

The Jordan Brewers opened their season with a win last weekend. They hope to make it two when they host St. Michael at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Jordan. For more on the Brewers’ schedule, read Thursday’s issue of the Jordan Independent. (File photo)


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