Enterprise Dispatch Blog

DASSEL-COKATO, MN - Dassel-Cokato students are showing their support by taking a day from their spring break and hopping on a bus to Fargo/Moorhead area to help with sandbagging efforts Wednesday. According to Jeff Neutzling, head coach of the boys baseball team confirmed he and Mark Peterson are taking a group of volunteers including the boys’ baseball and girls’ softball teams early Wednesday morning and holding off practice until Thursday.

Update: According to Neutzling, they received a phone call Tuesday night saying there was enough volunteersand weren’t needed and therefore did not go to Fargo to help with the sandbagging efforts. According to Peterson, there was some miscommunication between officials in Moorhead and Fargo, because volunteers were still needed in Fargo. Practice continued Wednesday despite disappointed coaches and team members who were expecting to go and help. People are planning to go Friday including some local churches, Peterson said.

DASSEL, MN - The Dassel Area Historical Society is hosting a new exhibit featuring found Native American artifacts from around the Dassel area with some dating back more than 8,000 years. Bob Munter along with Arnie Ruotsinoja, both Dassel natives, conducted a series of archealogical studies. They found 25 new sites in the Dassel area that were added to the six already documented sites in Meeker County through the Office of the State Archealogist. The exhibit features three of those sites; the Peterson site near Lake Jennie; the Nelson-Ratike site near Lake Stella and Washington south of Darwin, and the Rosander site near the Darwin/Dassel Hill. Exhibit open through Red Rooster Days.