Nathan Hansen
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Nathan Hansen has been a reporter and editor with the Farmington Independent and the Rosemount Town Pages since 1997. He is very tall.
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NHansen@farmingtonindependent.com
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- Member for
- 5 years 1 month
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I was never supposed to be here. Not this job. Definitely not this long. I didn’t grow up dreaming of reporting the news. I never took a journalism class. I...
Anika Rychner knows there are seniors in Farmington and Rosemount who are struggling to get by. There are hundreds of seniors in Farmington and in Rosemount living near or below the poverty line. Rychner, director of self-sufficiency for 360 Communities , knows there is help available for them, too. The challenge has been getting seniors to take advantage.
I’m getting soft in my old age. Or maybe it’s my advancing middle age. Does that sound better? It probably does. I’m getting soft in my advancing middle age. I’m...
I get it. I do. Laundry is a pain. Folding clothes is tedious. And we’re all still waiting for the Jetsons-style robot housekeeper that will take care of it all...
Memorial Day is set aside each year for remembering men and women killed in war, but one Rosemount man has been charged with getting a little combative on that day...
The Rosemount High School class of 2016 said goodbye to high school Saturday night with its commencement exercises. The class of 2016 is the 99th to graduate from RHS. Look for more photos in the June 9 edition of the Independent Town Pages .
I came to a bit of an uncomfortable realization a couple of summers ago. As I went through the paperwork associated with hiring our most recent high school interns, I...
Farmington and Rosemount held their annual Memorial Day ceremonies Monday morning. Rosemount gathered at 9 a.m. at the veterans’ memorial in Central Park before making the rounds to area cemeteries. Farmington held its ceremony at 10 a.m. at Corinthian Cemetery.
Parkview Elementary School looks a little more parklike this week thanks to a grant from the Tree Trust, sponsorship from Dakota Electric Association and the hard work of Parkview students...
As a visitor left her office at the Dakota Communications Center last week, Diane Lind offered a warning about the traffic on 160th Street. Drivers don’t always follow the speed limit, she said, and trucks sometimes blow through the stoplight at Highway 3. Presumably it would look bad if the county’s 911 dispatch center got a call about someone so soon after he walked out their front door.