🌱 Cokato driver walks away from three-vehicle Highway 12 crash near Darwin

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• Cokato driver walks away from three-vehicle Highway 12 crash near Darwin

Also on today's calendar: Newsies Auditions — Hutchinson Center for the Arts and 1 more event.

Today's riddle: what do you call a rabbit with fleas? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 74 and low of 50 degrees.
• Thursday: Showers late in the afternoon, temps: high: 71, low: 54.
• Friday: Breezy in the morning, with a high of 81 and low of 52 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Three-vehicle crash injures two near Darwin (dasselcokato.com) — A Cokato woman escaped injury in a three-vehicle crash Friday on Highway 12 near Darwin, while two other drivers from Darwin and Dassel were treated for non-life-threatening injuries. State Patrol reports all three were wearing seat belts, no alcohol was suspected, and multiple Meeker County agencies responded to the midday collision.
   

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📸 Around Cokato

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Cokato

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★ Featured events ★

Tuesday May 19

• Howard Lake Senior Group →
  Community Room, 617 6th Ave, Howard Lake
  1:00 pm

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Other local events

Wednesday May 20

• High School Scholarship Program
  Dassel-Cokato Performing Arts Center, 4852 Reardon Ave SW, Cokat
  7:00 pm

Thursday May 21

• Newsies Auditions — Hutchinson Center for the Arts →
  Dassel Area Historical Society, 901 1st St, Dassel
  6:00 pm

Tuesday May 26

• Attracting Bees and Beneficial Insects to your Fruit and Vegetable Garden →
  Great River Regional Library - Cokato, 175 4th St SW, Cokato
  6:30 pm

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📣 Cokato Shout Outs!

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday May 13

• WHS Senior Awards Night
  Wayzata High School , 4955 Peony Ln N, Plymouth, MN 55446, USA
  7:00 pm

Thursday May 14

• Norwood Young America vs Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted →
  Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted High School, 8700 County Rd 6 SW, Howard Lake
  4:00 pm
• CMS- Connect and Chill
  Wayzata Central Middle School, 305 Vicksburg Lane North, Plymouth
  5:30 pm
• CMS Outdoor Family Night
  Wayzata Central Middle School 305 Vicksburg Lane North , Plymouth, MN 55447
  5:30 pm
• WHS Moment in Time Choir Concert: Cantori, Varsity, Bel Canto, Concert Choir
  Wayzata High School WHS Auditorium 1
  7:30 pm

Friday May 15

• PTA Carnival Night
  Kimberly Lane Elementary School 17405 Old Rockford Road , Plymouth, MN 55446
  6:00 pm

Wednesday May 20

• BV Eats at Noodles
  Birchview Elementary School, 425 Ranchview Lane, Plymouth
  5:00 pm
• Family Picnic
  Meadow Ridge Elementary School, 17905 County Road 47, Plymouth
  5:30 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• MasterBrand Cabinets posted a job opening for Forklift Operator - Material Handler in Howard Lake. Apply here.
• Millerbernd Manufacturing posted a job opening for Janitor in Winsted. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Cokato here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Howard Lake

• ISD 2687 HLWW School Board Work Session Meeting Monday, May 4, 2026 (herald-journal.com)

Maple Lake

• Flying Crucial Missions in the Echaotic Pacific (srperspective.com)
• Bulldogs stay perfect, roll past Maple Lake (hometownsource.com)

Buffalo

• Wright County Area HS Sports Update for the Week of May 8th-May 12th. (krwc1360.com)
• NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Public Hearing on the Petition for Partial Abandonment of Judicial Ditch #1 (delanoheraldjournal.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Bugs Bunny ! (Thank you bruce A. for sending it in!)
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