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On behalf of NRHEG’s Distributive Education Club of America club, Lisa Weegman accepted a grant for the DECA club in the amount of $500 during the annual Waseca Area Foundation awards program in November. NRHEG’s DECA club was started this year and includes 14 excited students. The students...
Waseca County 4-H received a grant for $2,500 for programming enhancements during the Waseca Area Foundation’s awards program in November.
Amy Nelson, 4-H extension educator, was accompanied by high school students Joe and Isaac Feldcamp when she accepted the grant. The Feldcamp’s show rabbits...
At the December 15th regular school board meeting, district business manager Elizabeth Beery presented taxation information, issued annually between November 24th and December 30th as required by state law. During her presentation, Beery projected a slide illustrating Waseca’s historical levy...
NEW - Events featured for the first time at the second annual Christmas at the Mill included performances from the Los T’s and the Waseca Choir, and a visit from “the Grinch.”
“It was really all about the kids.”
That’s what Matt Petsinger said about “Christmas Time at the Mill” held Saturday, December 10.
The event was begun a year ago by American Family Insurance in Waseca as “Pictures with Santa.” It grew into more of a day for children and their families to...
The Waterville-Elysian-Morristown Girl Scouts’ favorite activity is shopping for Christmas presents for a family in need.
Local communities throughout Waseca County are trying to keep scout programs alive. Janesville is trying to start a Girl Scouts troop again after many years of absence.
But one group has been staying strong for years. The Waterville-Elysian-Morristown Girl Scouts, led by Carrie Bruns and Rachel...
The Waseca County Food Shelf celebrated moving into its new location Thursday Dec. 8, 2022 with a ribbon cutting. From left: Jim Ferch, Ed Frederick, Kristie Biehn, Garry Huckfeldt, Theresa Sunde, Jim Britton, Bernie Gaytko, Kevin Walter, Niki Schaffer, Tom Sankovitz, Bev Herfindahl, Gretchen Priebe, and Sofia Clayton.
As Waseca County Food Shelf volunteer and Chamber of Commerce member Bev Herfindahl put it, “It was a long time coming.” But the Waseca County Food Shelf found its home Thursday, December 8, next to the Neighborhood Service Center at 203 Third Ave NW.
The food shelf celebrated the move with an...
In one scene of the live nativity panorama, angel Linda Seifert delivers the news to Mary, played by Cindy Kolander, that she will be the mother of the savior.
Anita Nelson believes there is a point past which “coincidence” is no longer an adequate explanation.
“It’s a God thing,” she says.
The live outdoor nativity scene which was presented the evenings of Friday and Saturday December 9 and 10–and which was also presented in 2020 and 2021–is...
It’s possible that when the framed county map leapt from the wall at the December 8 meeting of the Waseca County Board of Commissioners, nearly landing on the head of County Attorney Rachel Cornelius, it was to ensure everyone in attendance was still paying attention. Thankfully, Cornelius was...
The Janesville Council approved the city’s 2023 budget and tax levy of 9.9 percent Monday, December 12. It was a goal of the city council to try to get the levy as close to a single digit increase as possible despite inflation and other cost increases which threatened to take the levy into double...
The fifth- and sixth-grade choirs from Waseca Intermediate School, directed by Angela Andreen, held their winter concert on Monday, December 5 in the high school’s Performing Arts Center. The concert was titled "Snowflakes Fall” and centered around the picture book by the same title, written by...
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