Vivien Dawn (Knudsvig) Mathsen was born on December 26, 1934, to Garth and Mabel (Norgard) Knudsvig in Wheeler, Mont. She was the eldest of three children, after which came her sister Myrna, and the ...

David Lee Otis, 69, of Mabel, Minn., passed away on December 13, 2024, at Gundersen Lutheran Hospital in La Crosse, Wis.

Joseph Bryan Marquardt was born June 12, 1957, to Marvin and Adelia (Dunford) Marquardt. Joe attended and graduated from Spring Valley High School and was united in marriage to Louise Wingert on ...

Ronald Douglas (“Keanie”) Carlson, passed away peacefully on February 27, 2025. He was born on the family farm, in rural Money Creek, on August 14, 1933, to Alfred and Beulah Carlson (Bradt).

Aubrie Klug scored 28 points as top-seed #5 in AA Caledonia beat 16-seed La Crescent/Hokah 85-25 in the 1AA girls playoffs.  The Warriors (24-3) move on to face 9-seed Z-M (13-14).  Section 1A 2-seed ...

LARP wrestling had four guys wrestle their way to state per runner-up finishes. Three did so by winning true second matches. At 189, #8 Zach Plank (42-8) posted two falls to make the finals. He then ...

MnWarn was created after the Rushford Flood of 2007; at that time there was no organization to help a city recover their utility systems from a disaster. Many calls had to be made in order to get the ...

At the February 25 commission meeting, Minnesota Driftless Hiking Trail executive director, Alexa Shapiro, updated the Houston County Board of Commissioners on the progress of the 100-mile hiking ...

The Kingsland School Board kicked off their February 18 meeting with Spring Valley-Wykoff FFA (Future Farmers of America) Chapter representative Cody Howard who gave an update on the chapter’s busy ...

Last fall, we had the honor of three students visiting our offices in Caledonia and Preston as part of a job shadowing experience. Lanesboro freshman Ian Horihan along with two Rushford-Peterson ...

Approval was granted for a signature on the congested area letter for spongy moth treatment in Fillmore County. Last year there was a presentation before the board on the spongy moth. The Whalan area ...

I took my oath in a village in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in 1979 with seven other volunteers including my wife, never thinking I would have to ever act on it. But I am acting on it today, by ...