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The Will family of rural New Prague – (from left) Keaton, mom Amanda, Colton, Sofie and dad Eric – will be the guests of honor at the annual Roman Barten Memorial Breakfast Sunday, May 4, at the Knights of Columbus Hall in New Prague. Colton, age 5, was diagnosed last spring with mixed phenotype lineage leukemia. (Submitted photo)
Amanda Will never dreamed of spending the amount of time in a doctor’s office and the hospital as she has the past few years. The journey her son, Colton, and family have been on has already seemed to have taken a lifetime.
Colton Will of New Prague was diagnosed with mixed phenotype lineage...
Dresses, tuxedos, and corsages will be on full display Saturday, May 3 at the Waterville-Elysian-Morristown Junior-Senior Prom in Waterville.
More than 125 students have signed up to participate in the Coastal Prom Night, starting with the Grand March in the WEM Gymnasium at 4 p.m. There will be a...
Clayton Roemhildt receives his Quilt of Valor from Brenda Domonoske and Tammy Thayer Saturday, April 26.
Part of being a veteran is fighting to protect the country and all who live in it. Meaning to this day our ability to spend a day without worry is in part thanks to the efforts of veterans. We, the American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 311 of Elysian hold solemn pride in the heroism of those who served...
WEM Speech Coaches Eric Gerst and Rachel Wendlandt are pictured above with State Entrants Claire Elness and Maddie Heuss, who each have competed at State three times and earned two All-State honors.
WEM seniors Claire Elness and Maddie Heuss are no strangers to the Class A State Speech Tournament.
Both students have advanced three times and they have also returned home with finalist medals. and both have been named All-State twice.
This year Elness placed seventh in the Great Speeches...
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Volunteer drivers for Meals on Wheels in Montgomery gathered for an appreciation lunch. Pictured, from the left, in the front row are Dennis Knapper, Kathy Blixt, and Francis Rynda; and in the back row are Jerome Holtz, Patti Mladek, and Mike Hruby. Missing from the photo were Michaela and Grant Erickson, Jim Mladek, Joe Gores, Pam Edel, Brett Vollmar, Jim Blum, Jenny Turek, Dan Hardel and Julie Tritz Reiter.
April is National Volunteer Month and volunteer drivers for the Meals on Wheels program in Montgomery were celebrated on Friday, April 25, at Park Manor in Montgomery. They gathered for a meal complete with a Caesar salad, fruit and pizza, from Pizzeria 201, and beverages, cookies and snacks...
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Author and blogger Kate Swenson speaks to a crowd about her experiences on having a child with autism at an author event held at the Montgomery Public Library on Tuesday, April
With a new book on the New York Times Best Sellers list, Kate Swenson spoke at the Montgomery Public Library on April 15 about the subject matter near and dear to her heart.
Swenson’s new book, “Autism Out Loud,” was released April 1. For the week of April 20, it sits at number 10 on the New York...
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Branko Schoenbauer stands with his flute inside Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis before his performance there with the 2024-2025 All-State Band in February.
Tri-City United High School musician Branko Schoenbauer was chosen last year for the 2024-2025 All-State Concert Band as a flutist.
All-State members are chosen through an audition process of recording a couple numbers and submitting them to a judging panel. “We had a lot more time than I expected...
New Prague firefighters and other first-responders worked to care for the drivers of three vehicles involved in a crash Monday afternoon shortly after 5 p.m. at the intersection of Highway 13 and 247th Street in the hamlet of St. Patrick northeast of New Prague. A woman from Cedar Lake Township was killed in the crash. (John Mueller photo)
A Cedar Lake Township woman was killed in a crash at the intersection of Highway 13 and East 247th Street in the area of St. Patrick Monday, April 28, which was reported at 5:10 p.m.
The Minnesota State Patrol reported Fedora Isabelle Formuzal, 70, of Cedar Lake Township, was killed in the crash....
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Crews continue to extinguish the fire in rural Rice County.
A house fire near Hunt Lake in rural Rice County, south of Vintage Escapes Winery & Vineyard, is ongoing but under control. Multiple fire agencies are attending to the fire. Initial reports are that the house is a total loss, but not verified. More details will be in May 1 Montgomery Messenger.
Le Sueur County is in the process of updating its land use and zoning code plan and will hold an open panel discussion on Le Sueur County’s VISION 2050 Comprehensive Land Use Plan will be held tonight, Thursday, May 1, 6:30 p.m., at the Le Center American Legion, 97 S. Park Ave.
The initiative,...
