To place an obituary, please include the information from the obituary checklist below in an email to [email protected]. There is no option to place obituaries through our website at this time. Feel free to contact our obituary desk at 651-228-5263 with any questions.
**General Information:**
– Your full name
– Address (City, State, Zip Code)
– Phone number
– Alternate phone number (if any)
**Obituary Specifications:**
– Name of Deceased
– Obituary Text
– A photo in a JPEG or PDF file is preferable; TIF and other files are also accepted. We will contact you if there are any issues with the photo.
– Ad Run Dates
There is a discount for running the obituary more than one day, but this must be scheduled on the first run date to apply. If a photo is used, it must be used for both days for the discount to apply. Contact us for more information.
**Policies:**
– **Verification of Death:** To publish obituaries, the name and phone number of the funeral home or cremation society handling the arrangements is required. We must contact them during business hours to verify the death.
– If the deceased’s body has been donated to the University of Minnesota Anatomy Bequest Program or a similar program, their phone number is required for verification. Please allow enough time for contact, especially during limited weekend hours.
– A death certificate is also acceptable for this purpose; only one of these two options is necessary.
**Guestbook and Outside Websites:**
We are not allowed to reference other media sources with a guestbook or an obituary placed elsewhere when placing an obituary in print and online. We may place a website for a funeral home or a family email for contact instead. Contact us with any questions.
**Obituary Process:**
Once your submission is complete, we will fax or email a proof for your review prior to publication in the newspaper. This proof includes the price and the days the notice is scheduled to appear. Please review the proof carefully.
We must be notified of errors or changes before the notice appears in the Pioneer Press, based on daily deadlines. After publication, we are not responsible for errors that occur after final proofing.
Changes to an online obituary can be handled through the obituary desk. Call us with further questions.
**Payment Procedure:**
Pre-payment is required for all obituary notices prior to publication by the specified deadline. After you receive the proof and approve its contents, please call 651-228-5263 with your payment information.
– **Credit Card:** Payment accepted by phone only due to PCI (Payment Card Industry) regulations.
– **EFT:** Check by phone (please provide routing and account numbers).
**Rates:**
– Minimum charge: $162 for the first 12 lines.
– Each additional line after 12 lines: $12 per line.
– Ads fewer than 12 lines are charged the minimum rate of $162.
– Obituaries longer than 40 lines receive a 7.5% discount per line.
– On a second run date, receive a 20% discount off both placements.
– Place three obituaries, and the third placement is free of charge.
– Each photo published is $125 per day. For example, 2 photos published on 2 days equals 4 photo charges ($500 total).
**Deadlines:**
Please follow deadline times to ensure your obituary is published on the requested day.
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### Memoriam (Non-Obituary) Requests
Unlike obituaries, memoriam submissions are remembrances of a loved one who has passed. Rates differ from obituaries. Please call or email us for more information.
– Phone: 651-228-5280
– Email: [email protected]
**Hours:** Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM (Closed weekends and holidays)
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### News Article:
By ALI SWENSON and NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, in Washington, D.C., sided with Democratic and civil rights groups that sued the Trump administration over his executive order to overhaul U.S. elections. She ruled that the proof-of-citizenship directive is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers, dealing a blow to the administration and its allies who argued that such a mandate is necessary to restore public confidence that only Americans are voting.
“Because our Constitution assigns responsibility for election regulation to the States and to Congress, this Court holds that the President lacks the authority to direct such changes,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote in her opinion. She emphasized that on matters related to setting voting qualifications and regulating federal election procedures, “the Constitution assigns no direct role to the President in either domain.”
Kollar-Kotelly echoed comments she made when granting a preliminary injunction over the issue. The ruling grants the plaintiffs a partial summary judgment prohibiting the proof-of-citizenship requirement from going into effect. It states that the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, which considered adding the requirement to the federal voter form, is permanently barred from taking action to do so.
A message seeking comment from the White House was not immediately returned.
The lawsuit brought by the Democratic National Committee and various civil rights groups will continue to play out to allow the judge to consider other challenges to Trump’s order. This includes a requirement that all mailed ballots be received, rather than just postmarked, by Election Day.
Other lawsuits against Trump’s election executive order are ongoing. In early April, 19 Democratic state attorneys general asked a separate federal court to reject Trump’s executive order. Washington and Oregon, where virtually all voting is done by mailed ballots, followed with their own lawsuit against the order.
https://www.twincities.com/2025/10/31/trump-elections-citizenship-proof/
