2018
11/16/2018: Minnesota co-op websites get failing grade on disclosing power sources. A rural environmental group takes electric cooperatives to task for not providing better online information. (Energy News Network)
2015
6/15/2015: More than 100 people turn out to paddle length of Minnesota River. Clean Up the River Environment (CURE) also partnered with the DNR, the group said on Facebook. CURE led two groups totaling 20 paddlers, some of whom paddled from Memorial Park to the Upper Sioux Agency Park while others took to the river from Skalbekken County Park to Vicksburg County Park in Renville County, for a total of 26.4 miles, Peg Furshong, one of the trip leaders, told BringMeTheNews. (Bring Me The News)
2013
5/19/2013: On the Minnesota River, ‘paddling theater’ offers entertainment and adventure. On May 18, 2013, performers staged a “paddling theater production” on the Minnesota River as part of Minnesota River History Weekend and Minnesota State Water Trails 50th Anniversary. (Minnesota Public Radio)
5/6/2013: Floating theater celebrates state’s Water Trails system. The daylong event is part of a weekend-long Clean Up the River Environment festival with a film festival, historic exhibits, food and live music in Granite Falls. (Star Tribune)
3/6/2013: Arts economy rises on the southwest prairie. CURE’s partnership with the Bush Foundation has allowed the organization to hire 26-year-old Sarina Otaibi, whose mother is from Granite Falls but who was raised in the Middle East, and earned a historic preservation degree from the University of Maryland. (Minnesota Public Radio)
2/5/2013: Theater as small town therapy. Local environmental organization Clean Up the River Environment (CURE) helped pay for and pave the way for the production. (Minnesota Public Radio)
2012
7/16/2012: Reaching sustainability in Minnesota, one city at a time. The meeting also drew Granite Falls resident Sarina Otaibi, a 26-year-old who works for a regional conservation group called Clean Up the River Environment, or CURE, which focuses on protection of the Minnesota River watershed. “Sustainability is a big thing among young people. Its time has come,” she says. “I just think this might help to attract a younger generation.” (MinnPost)
5/1/2012: Proposal approved for controversial granite quarry. “It will have a direct impact on people who live close to the quarry. And that’s what we’ve been doing from the beginning, is representing their interests,” Ninneman said. “We feel that their property values are in jeopardy. And that their health and welfare, and tranquility, their way of life, is being threatened.” (Minnesota Public Radio)
3/1/2012: Minneapolis art students share ideas with a small city. “Out of the creativity phase, hopefully something comes and clicks and becomes a new model,” said Patrick Moore, of Clean Up the River Environment, based in Montevideo. (Minnesota Public Radio)
2009
2008
7/3/2008: Commentary: Energy — Why ownership matters. CURE believes that there is a direct correlation between local ownership, rural prosperity and the resulting benefits to a healthy watershed. (The Land)
3/4/2008: Minn. Green Policy Looms Over Neighbor. “By stopping this thing, you give wind or other sources a boost in Minnesota. But South Dakota is fine with the old technology. So it’s one state’s approach against another’s,” said Duane Ninneman of rural Ortonville, a consultant for a rural environmental group opposed to the project. (Washington Post)
2006
4/4/2006: South Dakota power plant worries Minnesota residents. “It would open up a great opportunity for local wind production and biomass production of energy,” says Wojtalewicz. “A lot more decentralized, community based, small ‘d’ democratic way of producing our energy. Instead of centralized, expensive pollution producing plants.” Wojtalewicz co-chairs a group called “Clean Up the River Environment” or CURE. (MPR News)