News
New Prague High School has announced the 2018 inductees into the school’s Hall of Fame. They will be nducted during the school’s Honors Night Celebration on Wednesday, May. Inductees are in two categories - Distinguished Alumni and Distinguished Service. Nominees in a third category - Athletics...
Czech was Don Rynda’s first language.
His grandparents made sure of it.
“When I was little and my parents would be out working on the farm, my grandparents would care for me. They spoke Czech to me. It was important to them that the language was not forgotten… It wasn’t until I started country...
Imagine browsing through the Enchanted Depot to find customized magical solutions to all problems. Such is the world of TCU’s “Haphazardly Ever After,” that runs Friday and Saturday, April 6 and 7 at the Montgomery Middle School Auditorium. Performances are at 7 p.m. each night.
King...
Children have fun with a wind tunnel at the New Prague Library on Thursday, April 5, as part of First Step STEM. The event for pre-schoolers allowed children to learn about science, technology, engineering and math through activities such as looking at insects through magnifying glasses, making a...
Brian Spatenka of Waterville was honored with the 2018 Friend of the Fire Department Award during the Waterville Fire Dept. annual meeting March 19.
According to Waterville Fire Chief Chris Meskan, during the recent flooding events the last few years, Spatenka has voluntarily worked side-by-side...
Contract negotiations are currently underway between Waterville-Elysian-Morristown School principals and the school district.
Two of WEM’s three principals are working without current, signed employment contracts.
High School Principal John Kaplan’s most up-todate employment contract with the...
Area residents can travl to "Almost, Maine,” although it won’t require booking a flight or a long car drive as it is New Prague High School’s spring play. In nine brief vignettes audiences can explore friendship, love and loss at the high school auditorium, 221 12th St. NE, at 7:30 p.m. Friday,...
The New Prague City Council unanimously approved a resolution directing staff to proceed with a proposed Veteran’s Memorial Wall. The wall would be in Memorial Park, east of the New Prague Library.
City Planning Director Ken Ondich explained the area reserved for the memorial would be 60 feet by 60...
Work on improving New Prague’s Memorial Park Baseball Stadium comes closer to an end. One of the last projects to prepare the field as a host site for the 2018 Minnesota Amateur Baseball State Tournament was the installation of new poles for light towers. Crews did the work on Thursday, March 15,...
Hundreds of kids and their families participated in local egg hunt and Easter events on Saturday morning, March 31. The fun started in Elysian at 9 a.m. with the Lake Area Women's Easter Party, which was co-sponsored by the Willing Workers 4-H Club, and included live bunnies and many games. First...