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Waseca County residents enjoy a weekend of fun events at Janesville’s Hay Daze. Shown are scenes from the parade.

Record setting Hay Daze

When one concert has record attendance and a fundraiser breaks another record, that’s a good mark of a successful small-town celebration. Janesville’s annual celebration, Hay Daze, saw about a thousand visitors throughout the week of June 12-18. The busiest times were on Friday evening, June 16...

Father Thế

Father Thế moving to Lake City parish

This weekend, Father Thế Hoàng will be performing his last masses in Waseca County before he leaves for his new church in Lake City, Minnesota. There will be a farewell celebration following the masses on Saturday and Sunday at Sacred Heart Church with food and beverages provided. Father Glenn...

Waldorf Mayor Rob Wilkening and Councilwoman Melissa Sorbo listen during a public hearing June 15.

In the works?

The Waldorf City Council held a public meeting the evening of Thursday, June 15, in the community center, to discuss two items: Waldorf Veterans’ Memorial Park and the relocation of the St. Clair Wood Ducks to Waldorf which would include the construction of a new baseball complex. Waldorf...

Waseca Lions building back from Covid

Even three years after the Covid-19 pandemic began, area clubs are still getting back on their feet as they recover from the global shut-down. The Waseca Lions Club is one of many local organizations attempting to get active again. In general, Lions International is a group whose goal is to...

Members of the Waldorf High School Class of 1953. Front, from left: Wanita (Gilster) Groskreutz, Duane Hutchens, and Barbara (Bleess) Vogelsang. Back: Duane Hutchens, Joan Bluhm and Irvin Prail, Jr.

Back together

The room is packed, only a few scattered seats are empty. Seating has been designated by class, so choosing a chair feels like an intrusion. About a hundred conversations are going on simultaneously, and everyone seems to be raising their voices in order to be heard. It’s not a school...

Sue McKay

McKay retires after 44 years teaching

By TRISTAN JENSEN Staff Writer Sue McKay, who has taught for 44 years, is retiring. McKay spent 36 of her years teaching in Waseca Public Schools after getting her start at St. Joseph's Catholic School in Waconia and other schools in western Minnesota. She has taught every grade, kindergarten...

End of 2022-23

Superintendent Eric Hudspith began the June 15 Waseca School Board meeting by addressing the end of the school year. Hudspith expressed his pleasure in seeing 140 students cross the stage at graduation to celebrate their time at Waseca Public Schools. “It’s very exciting for students to see...

Special election set for November

A student loan assistance policy for Waseca County employees and special election to select a new representative for District 3 were discussed in a regular County Commissioner meeting June 20, 2023. The board addressed in detail the option for a student loan assistance policy, part of...

Karren Smith hugs Rachel Knudson in the lobby of New Richland Clinic as nurse practioner Wendy Trihus looks on.

Smith thanks NR Clinic staff

New Richland resident Karren Smith didn’t know anything was wrong at first. The retired grandmother had been to her son’s house in the morning on March 27 to help detail his food truck. Though she started having what she described as a heaviness in her chest that morning, she thought it was...

Folk musician David Huckfelt and guitarist Jeremy Ylvisaker perform the third concert in the Waseca public library summer series.

Third installment of summer music

Folk musician David Huckfelt and accompanying guitarist Jeremy Ylvisaker performed for the third installment of this year’s Waseca Public Library Summer Concert Series Tuesday night. Like the previous concerts, it took place at Waseca’s Trowbridge Park. Before the concert, Waseca librarian...