With a four match winning streak in tact, the Tri-City United (TCU) volleyball team continues to sit atop the Big South Conference Black Division standings.
    The Titans defeated St. Peter (26-28, 25-20, 25-22, 25-19) Tuesday, Sept. 29 and Holy Family (25-15, 25-20, 25-19) Thursday, Oct. 1 to improve to 4-0 in the conference and 14-3 overall.

    In one of their biggest wins in school history, the Tri-City United football team defeated Class AAA 3rd rated Waseca, 14-12, in their annual Homecoming game Friday, Oct. 2 in Montgomery.
    Waseca came into the game undefeated and was the defending Section 3AA Champion. They defeated the Titans twice last season (49-6, 21-0) and finished as the Class AAA State Runners-up, losing to Annandale, 17-7, in the championship.

    Residents of the Montgomery area gathered at the Revival on Main in Montgomery on Tuesday, Sept. 22 to hear from their local representatives at a Meet Your Candidates event put together by community member Jean Keogh.

    Social media posting on Facebook has been all abuzz the last couple weeks about the roundabout in Lonsdale at Highway 19 and Rice County 2, which was completed less than two months ago. 
    The subject of the chatter is a large dip on the northeast corner of the roundabout that developed that is about four-to-six inches deep, about four-to-six inches from side-to-side and extends the width of the lane.

    The Tri-City United (TCU) girls swimming and diving team nearly upset Mankato West in a dual meet Tuesday, Sep. 15 at West.
    The Titans won five events (three individual and two relays) against the Scarlets in an 86-83 win by West.
    “TCU’s relays and backstroke showed strong team chemistry heading into the rest of the season,” head coach Cassie Fisher said.
    Winning individual events were Madelyn Ryan in the 500-yard freestyle (7:31), Isla Stock in the 100-yard backstroke (1:16.31), and Grace Harmeyer in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:35.24).

Titans boys soccer finish half of season 7-0-1

    With two more wins, the Tri-City United (TCU) boys soccer team finishes the first half of their 2026 season with seven wins, no losses, and one tie.
    The Titans moved up to 8th in the Class A State Soccer Poll after wins against Waseca, 4-1, on Tuesday, Sept. 15 and Fairmont, 4-0, Thursday, Sept. 17.

    The Titans will “(Re)Discover” the ’90s for homecoming next week. Rebecca Wiseman, homecoming advisor and high school teacher, put together a fun set of days for students to celebrate, which were announced Monday, Sept. 21 to students during the unveiling in the high school performing arts center during advisory time.

TCU tennis team claims six titles at New Ulm

    The results from the new Ulm girls tennis invitational Saturday, Sept. 12 probably couldn’t have gone any better for the Tri-City United (TCU) squad.
    Of the 24 matches played against New Ulm, Redwood Valley, and River Valley, The Titans won 21 of them. 

    In addition to those in the photograph with names, this list of classmates and their information was provided.

    A 911 call on Friday, Sept. 2, at MGM Apartments in Lonsdale, 321 Southeast 1st Avenue,  is a suspected suicide. 
    Lonsdale Police Chief Jason Schmitz said that a call came in at 12:09 p.m. for a welfare check by the person’s employer after they had not showed up to work the last three days.

    Meghan Bastyr has had multiple jobs over her time here on Earth, including being a mom, a heavy equipment operator, farmer, and more. She went to college to be a nurse, but that isn’t what she went straight into out of college.
    After graduating nursing school in 2008, she worked with her father Rick Renslow, who was also a late-1980’s World Wrestling Federation pro wrestler, in a landscaping business building boulder walls on lake shorelines. That ended when her father passed away in 2008.

Titans start boys soccer season 3-0

    The Tri-City United boys soccer team started its 2026 season by allowing only two goals while posting three straight wins.
    The defending Section Champions defeated Mankato West, 1-0, Wings United (St. James/Windom/Madelia), 10-1, and Worthington, 2-1, in a rematch of the Big South Conference Championship.
    Junior Angel Ruiz Gomez scored the lone goal in the shutout of Mankato West August 29, in the 22nd minute.

    It was a clean sweep for the Tri-City United girls tennis team Tuesday, Sept. 1.
    The Titans improved to 3-3 overall with straight set wins in all seven matches. They only allowed one Eagle player to score more than three points in a set.
    At No. 1 singles junior Ellie Adams was a 7-5, 6-2 winner. Junior Reagan Steffen was a 6-2, 6-0 winner at No. 2 singles. Junior Destynee Wolff was a 6-0, 6-1 winner at No. 3 singles. At No. 4 singles, junior Lexie Berger was a 6-3, 6-0 winner.

    Area residents took full advantage of the event-filled day on Saturday at Lonsdale Community Days.
    Thousands took to the streets and businesses in downtown Lonsdale, starting with the annual Lonsdale Skywarn Breakfast. There were nearly 50 vendors along Main Street, where patrons could eat, drink, buy goods, ask questions, inquire about services, or learn some history.

    The TCU Junior Legion baseball team capped off a thrilling 2026 summer campaign, cementing their standing as one of the premier programs in the region by capturing the Metro Junior Legion League Tier 1A Division Championship and earning a third place finish at the Tier 1A State Tournament. 
    Competing in Tier 1A, a division designated for high schools with grades 10–12 enrollments between 400 and 1,000, TCU put together a dominant, high-octane season built on relentless base running, clutch hitting, and deep pitching.