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CRISPY - Elsie Jaeger, Librarian Kelly Krienke, Aubrey Leiferman and Evelyn Demarais attended the apple/caramel tasting event at the Janesville Public Library on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Pioneer photo by Ben Revermann
The Janesville Public Library held an apple taste test for a small group on Tuesday, Sept. 23. There were four different apple types and three different caramel dips with the children keeping track of who liked what.
Head Librarian and recently married Kelly Krienke, was wearing plastic...
WELCOMING ART - From left: President of the Waseca Arts Council, Mikhail Rostislavovich, Director of Education and Programming Christy Easton, Katie Youngberg, Cherie Jacobson, Gregory Easton Jr., Kathy Lindner, and Jeanne Sexton attended the Waseca Art Center's gallery opening exhibiting Water Colorist Cherie Jacobson and photographer Harry Popiel on Thursday, Sept. 25. Pioneer photo by Ben Revermann
The Waseca Art Center (WAC) held a gallery opening for two artists on Thursday, Sept. 25. Displays by water color painter and Waseca local Cherie Jacobson and photographer Harry Popiel will now be on display until Oct. 31.
While recovering from brain surgery in 2018, and with a lot of time...
HOMEMADE - Chana Rodriguez of Chana's Piñatas displayed two examples of her work, themed after Pokémon and Cuphead. Rodriguez makes her pieces at home and sells them at the Waseca farmers market. Pioneer photo by Ben Revermann
The weather was a little on the warmer side for a Waseca Farmers Market this late in September. There was also a heavy wind but that didn’t stop Chana Rodriguez from selling her pinatas, in between customers she was able to spare a minute to chat.
Her stand is called Chana’s Pinatas, she...
Members of the Janesville city council set a preliminary levy increase of 15 percent during their Sept. 22 meeting, with the expectation that city administrators would put in time over the next few months to trim the budget and lower the percentage. City administrator Clinton Rogers reminded...
Farmamerica wants to make it perfectly clear no crows are welcome at its upcoming Fall Festival on Oct. 11 or MEA Discovery Day on Oct. 17. At least, that’s how it seems given that the facility hopes to have dozens of scarecrows decorating its historic loop.
“We want people and groups to...
CRAFTING - The Waseca Garden Club, held a wine making presentation for its members thanks to fermenting experts Bev and Marshall Herfindahl at the University of Minnesota Southern Research and Outreach Center on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. Pioneer photo by Ben Revermann
The Waseca Garden Club, which meets the fourth Monday of each month, met at the Southern Research and Outreach Center (SROC) on Monday, Sept. 22. The evening featured Bev and Marshall Herfindahl for a wine making presentation; about 25 people attended. The Waseca Garden Club has been meeting for...
The Minnesota Deer Hunters Association’s (MDHA) sixteenth annual banquet took place the evening of Saturday, Sept. 20 at the Sweet-Sommers VFW. Funds raised by the event will be used to promote youth outdoor education, scholarships, local habitat projects and local and regional trap shooting...
Gene Glynn
Happy sixty-ninth birthday to Waseca native and former Twins third base coach Gene Glynn, who celebrated his birthday on Tuesday, Sept. 23.
Fun Fact: Glynn received Minnesota’s first-ever “Mr. Basketball” award his senior year at Waseca, and handed the award off to Basketball Hall of Famer...
Above, Waseca artist Dean Dykema with a painting he created on a turkey tail feather fan.
Waseca resident Dean Dykema remembers a walk he took in 2010. “I was going along a trail, and there was a goose feather,” he describes. “I picked it up, looked it over, and thought to myself, ‘I wonder if I could paint on this.’”
It turns out, he could.
He still has that feather, decorated...
Wasecan Ralph Keyes works at one of the century-old looms he uses to make rag rugs. He regularly sells his finished products in a number of venues, including Waseca's farmers' market. Pioneer photo by Deb Bently
Ralph Keyes observes there are advantages to specializing in a dying art.
One is that people are excited when they see it.
“I hear it all the time,” says the Wasecan, who makes rag rugs using looms which were built prior to 1930. “‘Mom used to do that,’ or ‘The lady next door used to make...
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