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Joe and Charlotte Kodada have been named the 2019 Lonsdale Community Days Grand Marshals. (Photo courtesy of the Lonsdale Area News-Review)
For years, Joe and Charlotte Kodada have worked behind the scenes of Lonsdale Community Days, however this year will be different because the life-long Lonsdale residents are this year’s parade grand marshals.
Earlier this month, the Kodadas received news from Lonsdale Chamber of Commerce...
A four-vehicle crash at the intersection of Highway 21 and County Road 2 north of New Prague shortly before 4 p.m. closed traffic at the intersection. Among responding agencies were the Minnesota State Patrol, Scott County Sheriff's Office, New Prague and Jordan Police, New Prague Fire Department,...
Brothers Noah, left and Caleb Stocker of the New Prague Boosters 4-H Club sat with their rabbits at the Rabbit and Poultry building at the Scott County Fairgrounds Wednesday, July 24. Caleb was helping Noah, who had several rabbits entered in the 4-H Rabbit competition. The Scott County Fair, held...
Pictured is Dennis Dvorak, left, of the New Prague Area Historical Society, and Reidun Peulen of the Prairie Quilters of the New Prague area stand by an antique spinning wheel on Friday, July 19, that was recently acquired by the historical society through help from the Prairie Quilters. (Patrick Fisher photo)
The New Prague Area Historical Society has a new article in the Centennial Cabin as they now have an antique Bohemian spinning wheel that they acquired with help from the Prairie Quilters of the New Prague Area.
Dennis Dvorak of the historical society explained the handmade spinning wheel had...
Boats and pontoons were flipped over during the Saturday, July 20 storm which ravaged the Lake Region Area approximately 11 a.m. No one was injured but the pictured road was closed for a number of hours while workers got the boats out. (Beth Clinton Photo)
Storms late Friday night and early Saturday morning dropped more than five inches of rain in Waterville.
This rain, combined with already high water tables, raised Lakes Tetonka and Sakatah, along with the Whitewater River, to dangerously high flooding levels.
The 2.5 inches of water in less than...
Children at Calvary Church’s Vacation Bible School play a game of dodge ball the morning of Tuesday, July 23, in New Prague’s Memorial Park. There are 60 children participating in the Energize Camp that started on Monday, July 22, and ends on Thursday, July 25, the same day the church holds its...
Mother and daughter, Darlene Thomas and Tammy Holliday enjoy a dance during the St. Patrick Parish Festival on Sunday, July 21. The church north of New Prague had music, games, a silent auction, a petting zoo, bingo and a chicken dinner. It also benefited from a beautiful day of temperatures in the...
A tank from Chart Industries made its way through the second roundabout on New Prague’s Main Street the evening of Thursday, July 18. The tank was heading from Chart Industries on the west side of town and going east. It was the second one to go through the city this week as the first one went...
Board members for Le Sueur County Historical Society, (from left) Dean Pettis, Mike Frederick, Bryce Stenzel, Ruth Collins, George Luskey and Bill Stangler, chat briefly after their regular monthly meeting at the historic Ottawa Town Hall on Wednesday, July 10. (Wade Young photo)
When the new board of the Le Sueur County Historical Society took control on June 3, it inherited remarkable problems, among them old buildings with no heating/ cooling/ventilation and some with mold growing in the basement.
During its monthly meeting on Wednesday, July 10, this time at the...
Waterville Firefighters honor Potter during the funeral. Pictured (left to right): Captain Ryan Knish, Captain Matt Duhme, Nick Bongers, Jeff Rahn, Captain Dennis Androli, Dennis Delaske, Andrew Knish, Darin Hanks, Assistant Chief Jeremy Schwartz, Chief Chris Meskan, Troy Tolzman, John Spoor, Luke Duhme, Justin Wenker, Corey Gedicke, Nick Sammon, Jay Harriman, Dick Tolzmann, and 2nd Assistant Chief Patrick Anderson. (Photo courtesy of Kim Rahn)
A Waterville man was killed and a Cannon Falls man sustained life-threatening injuries during a two-vehicle crash on Highway 60 on Wednesday morning, July 10, at approximately 4:45 a.m.
According to the Minnesota State Patrol incident report, William Elmer Potter, 27, of Waterville sustained fatal...
