Scholarship winners named

FAIRMONT — Fairmont Community Hospital Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2018 Erma Rosen Nursing Scholarship.

This scholarship was available to students entering their fourth year of study in an accredited baccalaureate nursing program in the fall of 2018.

Winners are: Anna Hernes, Emily Botten, Kathleen Thompson, Kierra Crow, Laura Kohn, Mary Durkin and Sydney Eddy. A total of $17,500 was awarded.

Let’s Go Fishing ready for season

FAIRMONT — The Fairmont Area Chapter of Let’s Go Fishing is preparing for its 11th season of taking senior citizens, veterans and disabled persons out fishing and boating free of charge.

Their 2018 season begins June 4 and will continue throughout the summer, with outings from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and boating from noon to 1:30 p.m. those days.

To book an outing, visit fairmont.lgfws.com or call (507) 848-5069.

Tree worker killed on the job

RICHFIELD (AP) — A landscaping company employee is dead after an on-the-job incident in Richfield.

Authorities say the 51-year-old worker was killed Wednesday by a flying piece of metal from a wood chipper. It happened while another employee with Victory Tree Service was working on the clogged machine.

The worker who died was identified by family as 51-year-old Bill Pipes, a father of six children.

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.

Priest wants evidence suppressed

ST. CLOUD (AP) — A priest in the Diocese of St. Cloud who is facing a sex crime charge wants some evidence disallowed at trial.

Fifty-one-year-old Rev. Anthony Oelrich was charged in February with third-degree criminal sexual conduct for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a woman who sought counseling from him in 2013 and 2014.

The St. Cloud Times reports defense lawyer Paul Engh is challenging the admissibility of various pieces of evidence including statements made by Oelrich and Oelrich’s medical and psychological records.

A hearing is scheduled May 30.

Bishop Donald Kettler has placed Oelrich on administrative leave and suspended him from serving as a priest pending the outcome of the case.