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Ivan Simon, front, caught a prize of orange sunglasses at one of the games during the Veseli Ho-Down Sunday, Aug. 20. Held at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Veseli the festival had a large turnout of people who showed up for music, food and fun. The weather cooperated as temperatures were in...
New Prague, Montgomery, Waterville, Scott and Le Sueur counties and the area are under an excessive heat warning during the coming week.
The National Weather Service says the area will be subject to "dangerously hot conditions with heat index values up to 110 (degrees) possible."
The weather...
With nothing in the city policy book governing cannabis, the Elysian City Council took action to make sure they have plenty of time to make sure there is ordinances in place when it comes to the sale and other items dealing with the drug.
The council approved an interim ordinance prohibiting the...
The Waterville Lakes Association will be hosting Pontoberfest Saturday, Aug. 19.
After a number of years off, the event returned to the Waterville lakes last year with a number of fun activities associated with this year’s beach party and picnic.
The event will start with a parade line-up at the...
The new Lonsdale Ambassadors are, from left, Junior Ambassador Payton Fischer, Miss Ambassadors Khloe Flicek and Avery Lerfald, Little Ambassador Kyrie Smisek, Miss Lonsdale Alli Simon, Miss Ambassador Miranda Pederson and Junior Ambassador Paige Miller. The program and coronation ceremony was held Saturday, Aug. 12, as part of Lonsdale Community Day. (Patrick Fisher photo)
Lonsdale Community Day, Saturday, Aug. 12, was packed with activities for people to enjoy from the morning too the night.
“It was amazing,” said Shanna GutzkeKupp, executive director of the Lonsdale Chamber of Commerce, which organizes the celebration to bring the community together. “We had...
Willie Borgmeyer and his mom, Theresa, and her other children have all competed in tractor pulls aboard the 1968 John Deere 4020 Willie’s late father, Mike, purchased in 1983. “Family Tradition” will be at the Le Sueur County Fair’s tractor pulling contest Saturday, Aug. 19, in the grandstand. The tractor is still used on the family farm in western Rice County. (John Mueller photo)
There are three tractors in the shed at the Borgmeyer farm just east of the Le Sueur-Rice County line. Each one has a specific job, though the 1968 John Deere 4020’s role is only partially linked directly to farm work.
“It still runs the auger every fall, still pulls things every spring,” said...
On Monday, Aug. 14, Fran Barten of New Prague was surprised by her children and grandchildren and members of the New Prague Chamber of Commerce when they asked if she would be the 2023 Parade of Farm Pride’s grand marshal.
“It took me awhile to process it,” said Barten, who was speechless for a...
Crews have been busy Monday, Aug. 14, removing the two gas tanks at the former Crawford’s Standard Services, at the southwest corner of the intersection of New Prague’s E Main Street and SE First Avenue.
Kevin Crawford, who ran the business for 40 years before closing it March 25, 2022, said the...
A Kilkenny woman’s house was damaged but nobody injured when fire broke out inside the front porch Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 9.
Just after 3:30 p.m., Constance Weber noted the air-conditioner window unit inside her front porch at her house on Laurel Avenue in Kilkenny had overheated and...
Crews from New Prague Public Works were busy Tuesday afternoon Aug. 8, removing a soft maple with a 4 to 5 foot diameter that fell in the alley between 310 and 312 Central Avenue N.
Advanced age of the tree is expected why it fell between 1:30-1:45 p.m. Robert Sammons, the homeowner at 310 Central...
