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Montgomery and area merchants are offering prizes to the first Montgomery baby born in 2019. To qualify as the New Year’s Baby, the baby must be born after 12:01 a.m. on January 1, 2019, to parents who have a Montgomery mailing address in the 56069 zip code.
Due to privacy laws, hospitals are...
The cast of WEM's one-act play, "Pickin" is pictured. Front row, left to right: Aviana Swanson, Megan Schmitz, Max Gibson, Sarah Best, and Alex Heuss. Back row, left to right: Jarod Pavek, Claire Buscho, Troy McBroom, Hunter Russell, Katie Gleason, Emma McGraw, and Karlisia Allen.
Waterville-Elysian-Morristown High School students are preparing for the Gopher Conference One-Act Festival Saturday, Jan. 19 in Waterville. The Buccaneers will perform Tyrone J. Butler's play "Pickin" an exploration of where teasing and bullying can lead if allowed to continue unabated. For more...
The TCU One Act is made up of (from left), sound and light crew Chloe Triden, Alex Bass, Nicole Schweitzer, Jack Erickson, Wyatt Hatlevig, Carolyn Mikel, Andrick Wagner, (back) Kelly Vlasak, Lizzie Christian, Jaylee Hanvelt, and Mackenzie Harstad. Missing is Brooke Holicky from the sound and light crew. (Wade Young Photo)
The mind of a brilliant teenager with autism is the focus of this year’s TCU One Act, “The Other Room.”
The play revolves around Austin, (Andrick Wagner) a brilliant teenage astronomer who happens to have autism. Lily (Carolyn Mikel) is his popular classmate who happens to have an interest in...
Above is a map of the upcoming power outage areas in Waterville set for Jan. 14 and 21.
A number of City of Waterville residents and businesses will be without power Monday, Jan. 14 and Monday Jan. 21 due to work being finalized by Xcel Energy.
Some of the work Xcel Energy needed to complete within the city was done following the September tornadoes.
Residents who live between Reed...
(Left) Fifth and sixth graders (left to right) Liza Baker, Owen Scheurer, Randi Krueger, and Carson James are WEM’s December Bucs’ Pride Focus Students.
(Right) Junior high students (left to right) Mackenzie Velishek, Tim McGraw, Jakiah Tyra, and Gabe Roberts are WEM’s December Bucs’ Pride Focus Students.
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Eight students from Waterville-Elysian-Morristown’s Morristown building have been named Bucs’ Pride Focus Students for December 2018.
Fifth graders selected for the honor include: Liza Baker, daughter of Pat and Pam Baker, and Owen Scheurer, son of Elisha Volkman and Justin Scheurer. The Fifth...
Le Sueur County Judge Mark Vandelist sent a strong message to the Le Sueur County Historical Society (LCHS) and its membership on January 3 when he rejected the society’s request to split the fees for the retired judge overseeing the case.
Vandelist stated the disputes within the organization are...
New board members, from left, Leo Giesen, Tammy Pexa and Mark Bartusek take the oath of office at the beginning of the school board's organizational meeting Monday, Jan. 14. The three were elected in November to four-year terms. Also remaining on the board are Kytyn Schoenbauer, board chair, Jeanne...
On Sunday Jan. 13 at approximately 9:30 p.m. the Le Sueur County Sheriff’s Office received information that a threat directed at the Cleveland Public School had been posted on a social media group chat site.
According to Sheriff Brett Mason, Le Sueur County Deputies investigated the matter...
David Mecredy, left, leads off a line of dancers to gather people for square dancing at the Cowboy Chili Feed/Cook Off in New Prague on Saturday, Jan. 12. Held at the St. Wenceslaus Church’s Parish Activity Center, the evening event was sponsored by HIS Haven Ranch and featured a chili contest,...
Tom Schmidberger, left, and Mallory Jirik were the final two contestants out of 12 students from New Prague Middle School that competed in the New Prague Area Schools’ Spelling Bee on Saturday, Jan. 12. Schmidberger won by spelling the word electrolysis. There were five schools that had final...
