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SWING AND A HIT: Baseball team wins Great River Conference. P12
Man shot, suspect at large STAFF REPORT NEWS@PINECITYMN.COM
Deputies are searching for Allen W. Hasser, 60, of Hinckley after another man was shot in the Hinckley area. According to the Pine County Sheriff’s Office, on May 25, 2019, at 2:46 p.m. Pine County 911 received a call from a male who told them he had been shot in the shoulder. The victim reported he was in his vehicle driving toward the city of Hinckley from an address on Little Sand Creek Road. Pine County deputies and EMS met up with the victim who was later air lifted to a hospital in Duluth with a non-life threatening gunshot wound. The victim told deputies that he and the suspect knew each other. A witness reported the suspect and
victim had been in a physical altercation when the suspect walked back to his residence on the property to get a gun, and said the victim was attempting to leave the property in his vehicle when the suspect fired multiple shots from a handgun, striking the victim’s vehicle and the victim in the shoulder. Pine County deputies were assisted by the Minnesota State Patrol and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in searching the suspect’s property for him. The suspect was not located at the property or in the area after a search, including by helicopter. The suspect has been identified as Hasser. Anyone with information on Hasser’s whereabouts is asked to contact Pine County at 320-629-8380 or by calling 911.
Pine City grad makes mark through journalism ELI GRUBBS | THE PIONEER
For seniors, it’s graduation exultation Pine City High School seniors took the first step into the next phase of their lives at graduation on May 23.
A dream world of magic awaits through ‘Wardrobe’ BY MIKE GAINOR EDITOR@PINECITYMN.COM
Heroes will rise, magical animals will speak and the bonds of family will be tested in the Pine City High School Auditorium this weekend as the drama department presents “The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe.” The story is based on the classic fantasy novel for children written by
C.S. Lewis, and was also turned into a animated movie in 1979, a TV series in the late 1980s, and was made a live-action film in 2005. Director Becky Schueller described the play as, “One hour of quick entertainment. “These guys have been working really hard,” Schueller said. “It’ll just be a fun,
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A thirst to understand his Ojibwe heritage and a passion for reporting local news have landed a Pine City native the assignment of his dreams. Chris Aadland, a 2009 Pine City High School graduate, was recently selected to serve as a Report for America (RFA) corps member. A national service program, RFA places talented emerging journalists into local news organizations to report on under-covered issues and communities. Aadland, son of Ralph Aadland and Denise Fedder, will spend the next year, possibly two, covering Native American issues for the Star-Tribune in Casper, Wyoming. He was one of 50 journalists chosen from among nearly 1,000 applicants in a highly competitive national competition. “Surprised, shocked, really hap-
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py,” said Aadland of his reaction to being selected. “I got the email on April 25, just as I was going to bed. It didn’t quite feel real that they
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