St. Cloud News

The term "Minnesota Nice" has come up multiple times in the last week or so, and a new resident see's one area where that seems to be true.

Downtown St. Cloud will host the October Art Crawl on Friday. There are plenty of local businesses hosting local talent.

Unique handmade craft items will be on display at the Whitney Senior Center Craft Fair in St. Cloud.

CentraCare is experiencing a phone system outage impacting incoming and outbound calls at most of its facilities throughout the region Wednesday morning.

Recreational marijuana became legal in Minnesota August 1st. Stearns County Sheriff Steve Soyka joined me on WJON to discuss what, if anything has changed. He says they have seen limited changes in the amount of marijuana issues since the law change which he says is a "good thing".

The City of St. Cloud continues to work with the Lincoln Center in regards to the homeless encampment located on the Lincoln Center property. St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis addressed a listener call on WJON's Radio Town Hall Meeting Friday morning. He says nothing has changed in the past 2 weeks in regards to this.

Between 4:00 and 4:30 Thursday morning, a pickup and trailer were stolen from a home in the 13800 block of 78th Street NE near Ronneby.

During its meeting on Tuesday, the St. Cloud Economic Development Authority will get an update on the Downtown Exterior Improvement Program.

This is the first time in 30 years that the turkey chosen to be pardoned is from Jennie-O, which is a part of the Hormel company

St. Cloud has many road projects in progress. St. Cloud Public Services Director Tracy Hodel joined me on WJON for an update. She indicates the Cooper Avenue South project to Traverse road is on schedule and should open in October.