To the editor:
    I am writing to express my enthusiastic support for Marisa Ulmen as the DFL candidate for Minnesota State Senate District 22.
    Knowing Marisa personally, I know firsthand that she possesses the qualities District 22 needs in a leader today. She is a hardworking individual of deep honesty, strong character, and unwavering integrity.

Monday, Sept. 21

Betty Ann Ziskovsky, age 92, of Veseli, died peacefully on October 2, 2026, at Mala Strana in New Prague, Minnesota.

    The Tri-City United Schools school board voted to close the primary building in Le Center at Monday’s regular board meeting, due to a failed boiler and no full need of the space. The building is located about a half block west of the TCU Le Center PreK-8 School’s main building at 160 North Mill Avenue. 

    The community is invited to watch an early-access viewing of “The Chosen” season six on Wednesday, Oct. 7 from 10-11:30 a.m. at St. John Lutheran Church in Montgomery. Only churches and parishes are eligible to participate in this early viewing. 
    Streaming of this first episode of season six begins Nov. 15 on Prime Video, but St. John Lutheran Church is inviting the community to watch this early viewing at the church. 

Tri-City United School’s youth wrestling held a pull-up competition at the Titans’ home football game on Friday, Sept. 25 to promote the upcoming youth wrestling season, which begins Nov. 9.

Youth wrestling will now be moved from Le Center's Primary building, which will close Oct. 1, to TCU High School, according to TCU School Board Director Trevor Houn.

    Before he could even remember and being only about nine months old, Silas Vlasak of Le Center started having drop seizures. Drop seizures, unlike atonic seizures, are when a person looses muscle tone and becomes limp, causing them to fall in place.
    The seizures Vlasak was having were a result of having epilepsy.

    Last Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 22, a regular customer of Lonsdale’s Dollar General store crashed into the entryway of the building.
    Lonsdale Police Chief Jason Schmitz said that the call came in at 1:57 p.m. for the incident, with Lonsdale Fire Department and Northfield Ambulance also responding.
    “The cause of the crash was the driver failed to stop. We suspect the driver accidentally accelerated the vehicle instead of stepping on the brake pedal,” said Chief Schmitz. “Were just thankful no one else was hurt knowing how busy Dollar General is.”

    Social media posting on Facebook has been all abuzz the last couple weeks about the roundabout in Lonsdale at Highway 19 and Rice County 2, which was completed less than two months ago. 
    The subject of the chatter is a large dip on the northeast corner of the roundabout that developed that is about four-to-six inches deep, about four-to-six inches from side-to-side and extends the width of the lane.

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    Le Center’s Parker O’Malley and Kaitlyn Hartwig were crowned Tri-City United High School’s 2026 Homecoming king and queen Monday afternoon, Sept. 28 in the school’s performing arts center.

    Montgomery City Council approved its preliminary levy for 2027 at Monday’s regular meeting, with the absence of council member Daniel Siebsen and the late Mick McGuire’s open seat. The proposed levy, which had to be presented by Sept. 30 by state law, amounts to $3,710,409, which is a 5.22% increase over the adopted 2026 levy of $3,526,356. These preliminary numbers are set as in they cannot increase but could decrease before a final levy is adopted in December.

Dennis R. Pond, age 81, of Eagan, Minnesota, passed away on September 22, 2026. Dennis was born on October 17, 1944, in Brookings, South Dakota.

Monday, Sept. 14

    Montgomery Chamber of Commerce hosted a free event for local small businesses at Inspire Services on Wednesday, Sept. 16 to help them better understand how artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the ways in which their business is being discovered or not discovered in the online world by customers.
    Hannah Bretz, acting director at the South Central Minnesota Small Business Development Center (MSBC), led the session. Previously to being the director, Bretz was a consultant at the center for 11 years.