Page "Walnut Grove, Minnesota" Paragraph 2

According to the Redwood Gazette, the newspaper in the nearby town of Redwood Falls, Walnut Grove gained more than 250 new residents between 2001 and 2006.

The new residents are Hmong immigrants and their families.

The influx of people has increased the population to nearly 900, and, reporter Erik Posz wrote in the newspaper, "... 42 percent of the students in the Westbrook-Walnut Grove School District are now Hmong.