Le Sueur County Sheriff Mounted Posse’s free Rodeo Fun Night last Friday, June 19, at the county fairgrounds in Le Center had a pleasant evening, narrowly missing severe storms that hampered events from the Twin Cities northward.
    A crowd of more than 500 people showed up to watch all ages compete for the best times in barrel racing, pole bending, mutton bustin’, monkey in a tree, a catalog race, a magic carpet ride race.

    Most people are aware of the area food shelves and Tri-City United School’s summer meal program for kids 1-18. Even with such programs, Caitlin Huiras thinks there is still much need in this area to help food insecurity.
    Huiras is the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce executive director and quit her job, in part, as a public health program specialist in Carver County to start the nonprofit 507 Food Share in Montgomery. She has a formal education background in nutrition and public health, and her former job focused nutrition with Carver County. 

    The Minnesota chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society MS 150 bike ride on Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14, brought over 2,000 bicycle riders raising money for charity to Le Sueur County and Montgomery.
    After doing the first 75 miles of their ride in a loop in the southwest portion of the county on Saturday and spending a night at camp in St. Peter, riders made their way through Montgomery on their way to Buck Hill in Burnsville on the second 75-mile track. 

    Montgomery Fire Department celebrates its 150th anniversary this Friday and Saturday. 
    Friday already has a full roster for the golf tournament at Montgomery National Golf Course. A shotgun start will ensue at noon, and persons are welcome to come an be spectators for the golfers.
    Saturday the department has planned way more than extra of what their typical dance and beer garden festivities have every year.
    It starts off with a car roll-in from 9-11:30 a.m., where firefighter Sean Benz will perform a set on 1st Street from 10-11:30 a.m.

    Tri-City United FFA Area Alumni’s 8th Annual Truck & Tractor Pull at the Le Sueur County Fairgrounds in Le Center had a bit of a hiccup last Friday evening.
    Brian Ceplecha, one of the pull’s committee members, said, “Despite a nearly three-hour delay due to the pulling sled having multiple flat tires on it way up from central Iowa, we got underway at 9:15 p.m. and successfully concluded the event at 2:30 a.m.!

    A nine-year-old state track record has been shattered by a Tri-City United (TCU) quartet of runners.
    The 4 x 200-meter relay team of junior Kaitlyn Hartwig, sophomores Carly Hartwig and Jillian Houn, and eighth grader Cami Hartwig are now the proud owners of the fastest time in Minnesota State history, winning the Class AA State Championship with a time of 1:37.90 at the Class AA State Meet held Friday, June 5 and Saturday, June 6 at St. Michael-Albertville High School.

    Le Sueur County took a step to pump the brakes on data centers being built in the county. At the Board of Commissioners meeting on May 26, the county unanimously passed a one-year moratorium on data center construction.
    The moratorium covers unincorporated areas of Le Sueur County. Cities within the county can still make their own decisions.
    “If a city wants to have a data center, we don’t have any control over that at all,” Commissioner David Preisler said. “If they want to, they’re not affected by this ordinance. They’ve got their own planning and zoning.”

    The filing period to run for office in the 2026 mid-term elections with the Minnesota Secretary of State closed Tuesday, June 2, at 5 p.m. Most seats open for election on the county commissioner races, and state races showing up with both a democratic and republican candidates on the ballot.

Le Sueur County
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    The National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s MS 150 Minnesota 2026 event comes home once again after its inaugural ride through Montgomery in 1980, some 46 years later.
    For many years, the Minnesota chapter’s two-day, 150 mile bicycle-riding fundraising event had been running from Duluth to Hinkley and then White Bear Lake. 

    David Johnston, 59, of Montgomery, was fatally injured during a two-vehicle crash the morning of Sunday, June 7.
    According to the Minnesota State Patrol (MSP) incident report, a 2020 Buick Enclave SUV, driven by Megan Holicky of Le Center, was traveling northbound on Le Sueur County 3 on the south side of Montgomery, and Johnston was traveling eastbound on Highway 21, riding on a 2024 Harley Davidson motorcycle, when the two vehicles collided at the intersection of the two roads near Seneca and the Montgomery trap range.

    Seneca held a 100th year anniversary celebration of the canning facility last Wednesday, May 27, which was originally opened in 1926 as Minnesota Valley Canning Company.
    On display was a pair of harvesters and a pup wagon they currently use for corn and pea harvest, a couple of five foot tall replica cans of sweet corn and peas, and a long display of memorabilia of the plant’s history by Duane Jindra.

Memorial Park playground
    The Montgomery Parks and Recreation Advisory Board was presented secondary options for the Memorial Park playground at their May 6 meeting. So far, the city has been working with Landscape Structures on a design that would cost about $230,400.
    Minnesota Wisconsin Playground (MWP) asked if they could submit their own quote to the city. MWP was recently bought by GameTime play equipment, making their equipment now direct-from-manufacturer and allowing for discounts.

    The Tri-City United Schools $39.99 million proposed capital bond that was put up for a special election on Tuesday, May 12, was again rejected by the voters in the district. 
    Slightly more voters showed up for this election, voting 1,055 (48.5%) in support of the bond and 1,120 (51.5%) not in support of the bond.

    Montgomery VFW Post 5340 and its Auxiliary will be distributing the “Buddy”® Poppy
May 8-9, 2026. Locations include Casey’s General Store and Mike’s Discount Foods from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
    In 1924, the VFW registered the name “Buddy”® Poppy with the U.S. Patent Office. The “Buddy”® Poppy represents the blood shed by American military service members and reminds us of their sacrifices.

    A train derailed on the Union Pacific line in far northwestern Tyrone Township, Le Sueur County, on the east side of the Minnesota River between Henderson and Ney Nature Center. A total of eight rail cars left the tracks just north of the Highway 19 bridge over the tracks.
    Le Sueur County Sheriff’s Office dispatch center received a call from Union Pacific Railroad at approximately 2:39 a.m. on May 2 and were notified of the derailment, according to the press release from the sheriff’s office. The report said that the cars were carrying liquid methane, propane, and grain.

    Abdo, financial auditor of the City of Montgomery, gave a presentation of the draft audit at the April’s city council meeting. 
    Abdo Certified Public Account Tom Olinger, who gave the presentation, said, “We did issue an unmodified opinion, which means a clean opinion for the city.” He noted no instances of noncompliance. This generally means that there were no major issues with the city’s finances.
    As in past years, Olinger noted that Abdo did prepare the financial statements for the city, something they must disclose.