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Sean O’Neill, left, talks with FOX9 News anchors Tim Blotz and Alix Kendall about the history and legacy of baseball at Union Hill the evening of Wednesday, June 22. O’Neill had been a player on the team and is now president of the field’s baseball association. A large crowd came out for the event...

Union Hill’s Drew Otteson, #27, caught the ball as New Prague’s Frank Ruzicka, #2, slides into third base. Ruzicka was called safe during the Orioles home game in New Prague on Sunday, June 19. (Patrick Fisher photo)

Fourteen players scored, thirteen players had hits, and thirteen players knocked in runs for the Union Hill amateur baseball team Thursday, June 16 in a 33-3, seven inning win over Veseli. The Bulldogs accumulated 27 hits with Sam Novak and Nathan Osborne each collecting four and Nate Lee and Jacob...
Rita Ann (Trnka) Chlan, age 89, of Webster, MN passed away peacefully surrounded by family on June 19, 2022. She was born on April 23, 1933 in Erin Township to Mathias and Helen (Brabec) Trnka of Lonsdale.  Rita grew up on a farm near Lonsdale before marrying Albert J. Chlan, Sr. on October 11,...

TCU senior Jordan Meyer capped off his high school track career with a 4th place finish in the 110 M hurdles at the State Track and Field meet. (Photo courtesy of Craig Nordling)

TCU senior Jordan Meyer hurdled his way to fourth place at the Class AA State Track and Field meet last weekend at St. Michael Albertville High School. Meyer and TCU junior Dante Juberian represented the Titans at the tournament. Meyer posted a personal-best time of 15.37 seconds in the 110 M...
To cap off the school year, my daughter Ellen’s fourth grade class created a living wax museum of great leaders. Out of the list of dozens of names, my little redhead chose Lucille Ball. Why did she chose Lucille Ball? Because she was a redhead. (You’ve gotta love 10-year-old logic.) Things started...
In-coming fifth-grade students were caught in the middle of a dispute between the school board and the teaching staff at Tri-City United. In recent months, the school board learned that the yearly field trip to Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center would be canceled if the teachers involved in...

Dave Traut, of Traut Companies, (right) watches as Gunnar Kern of the engineering firm, Bolton & Menk, detonates five pounds of TNT inside Well No. 5 near Montgomery’s Water Treatment Plant on Wednesday, June 8. (Wade Young photo)

City officials are hoping the multiple explosions of TNT in one of its wells last week will fix a water flow problem before the rehabilitation begins on the city’s water tower in mid-July. On Wednesday, June 8, Dave Traut, of Traut Companies which specializes in wells, drilling, and water treatment...
Midway through the DRS Amateur Baseball League season, there is a new leader. St. Patrick, winner of five straight games, has risen to the top of the standings with a 6-2 record. Webster, 4-1 in their last five games, moves into second place with a 6-4 record. Montgomery, the leader for much of the...
Angela Kadrlik, age 42 of Montgomery passed away unexpectedly at home on Monday, June 13, 2022. Angela Ryann (Johnson) Kadrlik was born July 17, 1979, in Burnsville, Minnesota, to Barry and Sharon (Barton) Johnson.  She was raised in the Burnsville / Apple Valley area and graduated from Apple...
Barbara J. Everson, 73, lifelong resident of New Prague, passed away on Tuesday, June 7, 2022, at St. Francis Regional Medical Center in their hospice care unit in Shakopee, MN. She was born on September 23, 1948, in New Prague, MN, to Edward and Evelyn Kohout. Barbara was married to Tom Everson...
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