Politics & Government

MN Family Loses The Only Road To Their House: Report

The family of four may be cut off from the outside world.

HILLMAN TOWNSHIP, MN — A family living in a small Minnesota town may be cut off from the outside world after city officials gave away the only public road to their house.

Hillman Township — located in Kanabec County — relinquished the rights to the gravel path that leads to Renee and Andy Crisman's property.

The gravel road is now considerd private property, owned by a neighbor who does not get along with the Crismans.

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"Supposedly, I could shut that road down now," Schmoll told the Star Tribune.

"I have no intention of doing that. Their little girls have to get to the school bus. But if I could close that down for Andy and Renee, I would."

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