Severe storms with straight-line winds two nights in a row found most of the compromised or weakened trees and branches in the area. The first round of storms hit around midnight from Sunday into ...

Alice M. Jahnke, age 96, of Glencoe, Minnesota, passed away Saturday, July 12, 2025, at Samaritan Bethany Inc. in Rochester, Minnesota.

Kilkenny's Olivia Westerman, 17, is crowned the 2025 Kolacky Queen. Westerman was crowned in the Friday, July 25, pageant at Tri-City United High School in the performing arts center.

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James J. Kratochvil, age 76, of New Prague, died peacefully, with his family at his side at his home on Friday, July 25, 2025. Jim was born on September 25, 1948, in New Prague, to Wenceslaus "Vinny" ...

New Prague’s Annie Bushey has joined Holmes Murphy, one of the nation’s largest privately held insurance brokerages as one of ...

Garry Pribyl of Montgomery, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, July 7, 2025, at his home at the age of 65.

Whether you are young or old from this area, chances are you know the name and the sounds of Lawrence “Larry” Novotny, Sr., who passed away this May, just shy of his 65th year of being a musician and ...

It’s a changing of the dressmakers this year for Kolacky Days. Garie Teig has spent the last 40 years making most of the traditional Czechoslovakian dresses for the Kolacky Days royalty, over 150 in ...

It certainly was an evil act when Minnesotans Mark and Melissa Hortman were shot and killed in their own homes recently, and that John and Yvette Hoffman were also shot and somehow managed to survive.

Barbara Marie Ceplecha, age 88, of Lonsdale, passed away surrounded by her family at her home on the evening of Sunday, July 20, 2025, following a courageous battle with cancer.