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The idea for the first Earth Day in 1970 is credited to Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson as a way to harness the emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution at the time. 2025 marks the 55th anniversary. In the late 1960s and early 1970s images taken during Apollo missions to the moon are credited with helping to inspire the environmental movement. In 1968 the crew of Apollo 8 took the first color photograph of Earth taken from space. The image, titled “Earthrise,” quickly circulated around the world and is widely credited with inspiring the environmental movement along with the creation of “Earth Day. The original “blue marble” image was taken by the crew of Apollo 17 in 1972. The revised “blue marble” image was created by NASA using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of our planet. See more information about Earth Day on page 9.
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Barb Hinrichs, 69, of White Bear Lake, may not have her Hugo Summary 2022-2024 hands and feet, but there is Homicide Robbery Sexual Assault Assault DUI so muchCurrent she is stillCurrent ablePeriod to do Current Period Current Period Current Period Period 2 0 water 101 110 17 like snorkeling, hiking, Previous Previous Previous Previous Previous Period 0 Period 10 Period 72 Period 67 skiing, driving and more. 0 Period MV Theft Larceny/Theft Burglary Weapons Drugs “I’ve tried lookCurrent at itPeriod in Currentto Period Current Period Current Period Current Period 12 … You can 221 63 3 40 a positive way Previous Previous Previous Previous Previous Period 5 Period 25 Period 3 Period 54 either sit around and be148 Period Total Reports Total Arrests Total Crisis Calls Total Accidents Total Overdoses sorry for yourself, or you Report Count Arrest Count Crisis Calls MV Accidents Overdoses can move forward with 13,684 560 16 537 335 getting on with your life Total Traffic Stops Total Citations Speed Citations Speed CitationsHighest Speed and doing as much as you Traffic Stops Speed Citation Num Recorded Total Citation Num 5,758 she said. 588 125 possibly can,” “I Highest Speed Record Speeding Citations 125 #N/A like to think that there are more things I can do than can’t.” Hugo Citations Issued 2024 Twelve years ago, CITATION TYPE CITATION SEVERITY Hinrichs was hospitalized (may include multiple offenses on 1 citation) with pneumonia and later was diagnosed with ACCIDENT 8 PAUL DOLS| PRESS PUBLICATIONS a strain of antibioticPETTY 402 Barb Hinrichs goes for a walk at MISDEMEANOR resistant bacteria called MOVING 283 VIOLATION Tamarack Nature Center. methicillin-resistant NON-MOVING realization of everything.” staphylococcus aureus 270 VIOLATION MISDEMEANOR Hinrichs spent (MRSA). She spent six 224 a total WRITTENICU, during of nearly six months weeks in the 27 WARNING in hospitals and a which doctors had to 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 0 100 200 300 400 500 rehabilitation center, remove her legs below the # of unique CitationNum # of unique CitationNum knee, as well as her fingers enduring six surgeries and relearning basic tasks like and parts of her hands. swallowing and walking. “When she was taking 2023 2024 in the hospital, she While the stitches 200 out, I just met Bob and Dan looked and went, ‘I don’t 197 Schmitt from Tillges Orthotics & have any fingers.’ I just 168 150 Prosthetics. cried,” she recalled. “I 158 151 140 think that was the first 131 SEE TILLGES, PAGE 11
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HUGO — Washington County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO) deputies received 9,784 calls for service within the city in 2024, a 7% increase over 2023. Thanks to a new crime-fighting tool, CrimeView Analytics, Sheriff Dan Starry says
the software can pull information from the county’s computer-aided dispatch and law enforcement records management systems to spot trends and understand crime patterns. “We are seeing a huge jump in theft from motor vehicles in Scott County,” Starry said. “I would assume that’s on the way out here as well.” He
reminds residents to lock their doors and not leave valuable items in their cars while at the park or overnight. In addition to deputies staying busy in Hugo, detectives and investigators also remain hard at work. Starry noted that the detective assigned to Hugo worked on 118 cases in 2024 and that 272 cases were assigned to
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the county’s investigations unit. “That’s a lot,” Starry said. “They remain very busy.” The busiest time for calls in 2024 was 9 p.m. and the slowest time was 4 a.m. If residents see something suspicious, no matter what time of day, they are encouraged to SEE ANNUAL REPORT, PAGE 3
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