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Seneca Foods South Annex building in Montgomery, MN.

Thu, 10/05/2023 - 2:05pm

Seneca Foods employee dies in incident at Montgomery *Updated 10/6/23

According to a press release from the Montgomery Police Department, a worker at Seneca Foods plant in Montgomery died early Thursday morning. The release said that a call came in at approximately 3:...

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The fires still burning Thursday, May 25, at the Rice County landfill.

Fri, 05/26/2023 - 12:14pm

Rice County landfill closed, fire ongoing

Rice County officials are continuing to respond to a fire at the county’s landfill solid waste facility at East 145th Street in rural Dundas. The fire began in the landfill portion of the solid waste...

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The Middle Cannon River Watershed shown with the sub watersheds that are involved in the Farmers Protecting Bridgewater Streams Project in Bridgewater Township.

Mon, 03/20/2023 - 11:00am

Watershed environmental project in Rice County to share latest data March 21

A number of entities came together to implement the Farmers Protecting Rice Creek Project in the Rice Creek watershed in 2018. The project expanded to include parts of Heath and Wolf Creek watersheds...

Screenshots of using the Transit app that is the focus of the pilot project from MnDOT. The home screen of the Transit app when you bring it up will show your location and available transit options that you can select (left). You can choose two destinations to see available options as well (right center). For either option when you select them, it will show you options and prices, if available (center left), or the available options and how to book them (right).

Wed, 03/15/2023 - 11:48am

MnDOT launches multi-modal rural trip planner test pilot

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) launched a $1.9 million test pilot that aims to improve public transportation needs across western and southern rural Minnesota. If the test pilot...

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Joette L. Bliss, 61

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Joette L. Bliss, age 61 of Waterville, died on Monday, April 2, 2018 at Pleasant Manor in Faribault. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 28, 1956, Joette was the daughter of Joseph and Alice (Jennings) Kirk. She graduated from Simley High School in 1974. Following her graduation, she married her...

Florence Whilimina Hamele, 98

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Florence Whilimina Hamele, age 98 of Waterville, passed away on March 30, 2018 at the Minnesota Valley Health Care Center in Le Sueur. Born on March 15, 1920 in Cordova, Florence was the daughter of Herman and Tena (Delaska) Gehrke. She attended school in Cordova before getting married to George...

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We are in the process of launching our newly-designed website this weekend for the New Prague Times, Montgomery Messenger, Waterville Lake Region Life and Elysian Enterprise. We hope you like the new look, new functions, new design, including the new mobile versions. We apologize if there are any...

Sylvia Jane Krampitz, 79

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Sylvia Jane Krampitz, age 79, of Waseca, was born June 1, 1938 in Morristown, MN to Harold and Mabel (Fratzke) Schwichtenberg. She was the 2nd of 8 children. Sylvia attended Waterville High School and graduated in 1956. During high school her sweetheart was David Krampitz and they were married on...

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Fire department is called to Casey’s

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The Waterville Fire Department responded to a call at Casey’s General Store in Waterville on Tuesday morning, December 26. According to store manager Betty Gilmore, two firemen were in the store when smoke began entering the building. The fire department was called for safety reasons. “It was...

Bucs fall to Waseca and NRHEG

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The WEM boys basketball team dropped a pair of contests last week, falling to Waseca and NRHEG. Waseca, rated 13th in Class AAA, downed the Bucs 76-44 Dec. 19. NRHEG, undefeated with a 6-0 record, edged the Bucs 60-53 Dec. 22. WEM has lost three straight games and fell to 1- 3 in the Gopher...

Bucs fall to Waseca and NRHEG

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