To place an obituary, please include the information from the obituary checklist below in an email to obits@pioneerpress.com. There is no option to place them through our website. 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,
And an alternate phone number (if any)
Obituary Specification:
Name of Deceased,
Obituary Text,
A photo in a JPEG or PDF file is preferable, TIF and other files are accepted, we will contact you if there are any issues with the photo.
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There is a discount for running 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.
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Verification of Death:
In order to publish obituaries a name and phone number of funeral home/cremation society is required. We must contact the funeral home/cremation society handling the arrangements during their business hours to verify the death. If the body of the deceased 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 to contact them especially during their limited weekend hours.
A death certificate is also acceptable for this purpose but only one of these two options are 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 regarding this matter.
Obituary Process:
Once your submission is completed, we will fax or email a proof for review prior to publication in the newspaper. This proof includes price and 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 each day’s deadlines.
After publication, we will not be responsible for errors that may occur after final proofing.
Online:
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 deadline specified below in our deadline schedule. Please call 651-228-5263 with your payment information after you have received the proof and approved its contents.
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Rates:
The minimum charge is $162 for the first 10 lines.
Every line after the first 10 is $12.20.
If the ad is under 10 lines it will be charged the minimum rate of $162.
On a second run date, the lines are $8.20 per line, starting w/ the first line.
For example: if first run date was 20 lines the cost would be $164.
Each photo published is $125 per day.
For example: 2 photos in the paper on 2 days would be 4 photo charges at $500.
Deadlines:
Please follow deadline times to ensure your obituary is published on the day requested.
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MEMORIAM (NON-OBITUARY) REQUEST
Unlike an obituary, Memoriam submissions are remembrances of a loved one who has passed. The rates for a memoriam differ from obituaries.
Please call or email us for more memoriam information
Please call 651-228-5280 for more information.
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Please submit your memoriam ad to memoriams@pioneerpress.com or call 651-228-5280.
An announced crowd of 22,526 fans ventured to Target Field for one final time this year on Sunday afternoon, watching the Twins deal a blow to the Cleveland Guardians’ playoff chances.
On a day when the Vikings kicked off at noon a mile away, and the Lynx were host to WNBA playoff game that started at 4 p.m. across the street at the Target Center, the stadium was half full — much like it has been all season.
It was a season-wide trend for the Twins, who drew the fewest fans in any season — excluding the pandemic-affected 2020 and 2021 seasons — since 2000 in the Metrodome. The announced-attendance total of 1,768,728 fans is down from 1,951,616 a season ago. The Twins averaged 21,836 fans a game, 24th out of 30 Major League Baseball teams, though two of those teams behind them are playing in smaller-capacity, minor league stadiums.
In a season in which the Twins are tracking towards finishing with the second-worst record in the American League, and fan discontent seems to have reached a peak, attendance took a hit. One fan in the stands on Sunday voiced his displeasure by sporting a Twins jersey that said “Fire Sale,” with No. 25 on the back.
While the results on the field played a result in their attendance undoubtedly, the Twins only dropped, on average, 796 fans per game after a trade deadline in which they traded away nearly 40 percent of the active major league roster.
Their lowest-attended home game came on a Monday in April when the Twins sold just 10,240 tickets to a game against the visiting New York Mets. That was the least-attended game in Target Field history aside from the COVID-affected seasons. Their highest attended game came on July 11, a game in which a pair of all-star starter Joe Ryan and Paul Skenes duked it out before a postgame Nelly concert. They drew 40,100 fans that night.
The Twins eclipsed 30,000 tickets sold in just seven of 81 home games this season.
Briefly
Manager Rocco Baldelli said he expected Ryan Jeffers, on the injured list with a concussion, to join the team on its season-ending road trip to play the Texas Rangers and Philadelphia Phillies. Fellow catcher Christian Vázquez, out since early August, is also expected to join the team in Texas after spending the weekend rehabbing with the Triple-A Saints. Vázquez is coming back from an infection in his left shoulder. … The Twins canceled rookie dress up last season in the midst of their late-season collapse, but it was back on this season with the team’s younger players getting ready for their Sunday night flight in outfits picked out just for them.