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Progress this Week of 4/12/2021:
On Monday, the 1st utility crew broke ground and began construction of the main line sanitary sewer starting at 2nd Avenue NW (by Wells Fargo), and by the end of the week will have made it the 3 blocks to Central Avenue. Their goal is to get ahead of the 2nd utility...
As of Thursday, April 15, the City of New Prague announced it is allowing the one story “rear” portion of Downtown Sound at 104 Main St. E to reopen. This is the portion that is marked internally in the building – essentially all the rear portion except the north 12-feet closest to the two story...
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The WEM Speech team competed in the Section 2A North Sub-Subsection Meet on Tuesday, April 5th. Five of the girls will be moving on to Section 2A meet on Friday, April 16th. Paige Atherton and Kiri Kerekes placed second in Dramatic Duo. Alex Heuss took second place in Great Speeches. Emma McGraw...
A settlement was approved between the City of Waterville and MacQueen Equipment of St. Paul for a purchase made by the city which, once delivered, was not what they had initially ordered.
MacQueen delivered an off-colored fire truck to the Waterville Fire Department last year and the city debated...
Roland Ceplecha spent a few hours this past Saturday powder blasting the Settler’s Log Cabin in Memorial Park. Submitted Photo
The restoration of the Settler’s Log Cabin in Memorial Park, Montgomery, continued over the weekend. Roland Ceplecha spent a few hours Saturday powder blasting the cabin. Ceplecha owns Kaderlik Well Drilling and Service, and he volunteered his equipment and labor for the job. Prior to the powder...
The Rice County Master Gardener volunteers are hosting their annual Arbor Day tree and shrub giveaway on Friday, April 30, at the Rice County Fairgrounds in Faribault. The giveaway will take place from 3:30-5:30 p.m., while supplies last.
The giveaway will take place as a drive-through, minimal...
Mark Trempe of the Post Office moves the mailbox along Main Street to its new location along First Avenue SE on the south side of the entrance to the alley. The box was moved due to the reconstruction of Main Street. Trempe grew up in New Prague and his late father was Richard Trempe.
(Patrick Fisher Photo)
(This is the first in a series about changes that New Prague’s Main Street businesses are dealing with due to the reconstruction of Main Street.)
Businesses on New Prague’s Main Street will be dealing with changes due to the reconstruction of the street and the placing of new infrastructure...
The City of New Prague will have the building located at 102 E. Main Street (containing The Consignment Lodge at 102 E. Main Street and Downtown Sound at 104 E. Main Street) posted as an unsafe structure and to be vacated (per MN Rules1300.0180) until further notice. This determination was made by...
A Travis’ Trades Fund has been set up to honor WEM senior Travis Van Houdt of Waterville who died in a car crash in December. A fundraising event will be held April 17 at Hoot Lanes.
(Photo courtesy of Stephanie Litsheim?
He should be graduating this year.
He should be walking across that stage that’s set up in the Waterville-Elysian-Morristown High School gymnasium each year to receive his high school diploma in May, but his life was cut short.
Eighteen-year-old Travis Van Houdt, a young man who...
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