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ROYALTY — Top: Miss Elysian 2022 Royalty. From left: Macy Sluzacek, Princess of the Lakes Mia Sluzacek, and Meredith James. Back row: Mackenzie James, Abigail Osness, Junior Miss Elysian Payton Miller, Miss Elysian Desirae Domonoske, Miley Anderson, and Kyleigh Duffey.

Shining tiaras

The nearly week-long Elysian Fourth of July Celebration kicked off with Desirae Domonoske receiving the honor of becoming Miss Elysian 2023, with Kyleigh Duffey and Abigail Osness as her attendants. Payton Miller was crowned Junior Miss Elysian 2023 with Mackenzie James and Miley Anderson as her...

ON EDGE — A member of the Mankato Shriners organization takes things to a new level during the Elysian parade.

Elysian energy

Great food, good company, and celebrating the birth of the United States of America: Independence Day in a nutshell. A couple thousand people were in and out of Elysian to celebrate the city’s near week-long Fourth of July Celebration from June 29 to July 4. Kicking off the celebration was...

Cora Packard has offered classes, sunflower bouquets, and classes at Wild Spirit Farm Sanctuary since moving to the rural Waseca farm in 2018..

Sanctuary for all

“It’s been a dream come true for me here.” That is what Cora Packard said about being an owner of Wild Spirit Farm Sanctuary, a ten-acre farm about three miles west of Waseca. In four short years, the farm has come to house a few different goat breeds including pygmies and Nigerians, as well...

GRAND MARSHALLS - The 2022 Farm and City Days Grand Marshalls were the three oldest businesses in New Richland, Bonnerup Funeral Service, the State Bank of New Richland and the NRHEG Star Eagle. Representing those businesses at the New Richland Fire Department pancake breakfast are, from left: Bonnerup: Lori Tuchtenhagen, Larry Thorstad, Lanae Thorstad, Andrew Schwarz, Kasie Watkins, Tammy Busho and Amy Ihrke; SBNR, Matt Harrington, Kristi Harrington, and Star Eagle, Eli Lutgens. Farm and City Day’s is set for this weekend, July 7-9.

The big weekend is here

Farm & City Days, the annual celebration that seems to swell the population of the town by several hundred, runs Friday through Sunday, July 7-9. The parade is scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday, followed by a street dance from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Broadway. The weekend starts Friday as the...

EUROPE - Waseca High School art and Spanish students along with the chaperones stand in front of the palace in Madrid, Spain. Contributed photo

WHS Spanish, art students take trip to Spain, France

A group of 20 students and chaperones from Waseca has recently returned from a trip abroad, visiting Madrid, Barcelona, and Paris. These students, chaperones, and teachers spent ten days in Europe in June, arriving home June 23. The combination of Spanish and art students from Waseca High...

Little Rascals troop member Mandi Root

Little Rascals

About a couple hundred audience members enjoyed the Little Rascals of Waseca’s production of “The Adventures of Rose Red” this past Friday and Saturday, June 23-24 at the Waseca High School Performing Arts Center. The play, written by Sean Abley, was directed by Karen Pfarr Anderson with the...

TOGETHER AGAIN - Pen pals since the 1970s, Dawn Nelemans and Gert Schoeniger spent a few days together recently here in Waseca. Pictured with them is Christiane, Gert’s wife of more than 20 years.

Different but alike

In 1972, impulsive high school students in Crailsheim, Germany, and Worthington, Minnesota, raised their hands. Yes! They would love to have a pen pal from another country. Not just “another country,” either–from their respective “sister cities,” a connection of friendship and sharing between...

SAY CHEESE - Dairy Princesses Maia Bartlet, Allie Eldeen, and McKenna Eichorn were in charge of the cheese throwing station at Acres of Pizza.

Acres of learning

On-and-off showers didn’t stop families from experiencing the wonders of pizza at Farmamerica’s second annual Acres of Pizza event June 24 from 11 - 3 p.m. While tram rides and Pleasant Grove Pizza Farm’s food truck continued outside, the booths and stations were moved indoors, where children and...

Boston not bust

“It’s an incredible time to spend together. We get to see the country. We get to face adversities and solve them using our shared resources.” So says Sharon Lodge, 58, outside Waseca’s southern KwikTrip around 4 p.m. on the last Sunday in June. She and her son Caleb Pitcher, 21, have biked...

CAPACTIY CROWD - The Waseca Fire Relief Assocation’s annual fish fry on June 24 was very well atttended.

Fishy fundraiser

The Waseca firefighters hosted the annual Waseca Fire Department Relief Association fish fry and fundraiser Saturday, June 24 from 4 to 7 p.m that had people lined up down the street waiting for their fish. To make sure that they didn’t run out of fish like last year, the fire department had...