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Take a Mom Fishing Weekend is the weekend before fishing opener Fishing seasons open for walleye, bass, trout in lakes, and northern pike on Saturday, May 15, with this year’s date taking the prize for the latest possible opener under Minnesota statute. “We know there is some confusion about this...

2021 Rice County Dairy Maids and Princesses, left to right: Karlie DeGrood, Madelyn Wehe, Ava Quast, Kelsey Kuball, and Brooke Johnson. (Submitted photo)

Two local college students will serve as Rice County Dairy Princesses for 2021. Kelsey Kuball, a WEM graduate who attends the University of Northwestern in St. Paul, and Madelyn Wehe, who attends the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, were named 2021 Dairy Princesses for Rice County. The Rice...
Seven WEM senior basketball players have received State honors following their 2020-21 season. Brielle Bartelt, Lindsay Condon, Kylie Pittmann, Ellie Ready, Toryn Richards, Allison Rients, and Autumn Taylor were each honored by the Minnesota Girls Basketball Coaches Association. Bartelt and...
“Spring has sprung. The grass has riz, I wonder where the birdies is?”…so goes the old saying. Apparently, there are several versions of this as well as a longer poem. Everyone of a certain age seems to know this saying one way or the other, and it is recited as soon as it feels like spring. It...

Senior Ellie Ready gets fouled by a Sleepy Eye-St. Mary’s player during the Section 2A Championship Friday, March 26 which SESM won, 64-59. (Jay Schneider photo)

Knights edge Lady Bucs in Section 2A Championship The Sleepy Eye-St. Mary’s girls basketball team was one of the highest scoring teams in Class A this season. They averaged nearly 80 points per game. WEM held the Knights to 21 first half points in the Section 2A Championship game Friday, March 26...

L to R: Charlotte Melchert, Gideon Anderson, Beckett Hill, Rylind Piha, John Smith, Natalie Elness, Ephraem
Palm, Wyatt Melchert, Evie Melchert, and Graham Piha. 

The students at Trinity Lutheran School in North Morristown reenacted Jesus Palm Sunday Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem with palm branches and clothing. They gathered on the church steps with the church doors wide open to praise our heavenly king, Jesus. The week would conclude with Jesus...
Lorna Marvel Sexton, passed away at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester on the morning of Palm Sunday, March 28, 2021, at the age of 98. She was a long time Waseca resident, spending her last years under the excellent care and friendships at Colony Court in Waseca. Born on January 8, 1923, at the...
The season has ended for the WEM girls basketball team after a 64-59 loss to Sleepy Eye-St. Mary's in the Section 2A Championship played Thursday, March 25 at Sibley East High School in Arlington. The Bucs finished the season with a 20-4 record, with two of those losses being to the Knights. For...
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