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At the Waldorf city council meeting the evening of Monday, June 9, Mayor Rob Wilkening presented the “City of Waldorf Phase 2 Project” listing 11 different city projects for a total cost of about $8.4 million. He suggested that by listing and prioritizing the projects, which include street and...
Minnesotans Clint VanLaanen and Trina Engle, inventors of the ItchStick, which can be found online or at the Waseca Farmers Market every Saturday.
In 2016, Cambridge, Minnesota resident Trina Engle was suffering after coming into contact with poison ivy. Her significant other Clint VanLaanen did some research into naturally-based treatments and decided to make a salve. When it was done, though, its consistency was too thick to be applied...
Waseca County has had five active economic development authority (EDA) boards for some time. On June 18, representatives from all five met to share information and investigate ways collaboration could benefit their efforts to promote the county and its communities as viable locations for new or...
Close to 25 children attended the used CD Scratch Art event at the New Richland Public Library on Tuesday, June 17, 2025.
An artistic opportunity presented itself at the New Richland Public Library on Tuesday, June 17: CD Scratch Art. Attendance at the event, geared toward children preschool through fifth grade, was so strong that three additional tables had to be brought in to accommodate the large and chatty bunch...
Speaking up and listening in on behalf of Waseca County during a recent USDA information-gathering session were Waseca County Soil and Water Conservation District staff members Cammi Nordmeyer (far left), Mark Schaetzke (back right), and the agency's summer intern, Jayme Sandbeck (front right). Pictured with them are interested farmers Dan and Debbie Roemhildt and Marvin Guse (far right).
The Mankato office of the United States Department of Agriculture invited farmers, rural property owners, and soil conservation professionals from Blue Earth, Faribault and Waseca counties to a local work group (LWG) meeting the evening of June 16. About 40 people gathered at the Pemberton...
After 10 years as administrative assistant to the superintendent at NRHEG, Sue Kulseth retired effective at the end of the school year. Pictured above with Kulseth is Sarah Wacholz, who is learning the ins and outs of the administrative position. Wacholz and her husband Thomas live just outside New Richland.
Members of the NRHEG school board approved a budget for the upcoming school year which includes just over $13.5 million in expenditures, alongside slightly less than $13.3 million in anticipated revenue.
District business manager Karla Christopherson acknowledged those numbers lead to a...
District 19B Representative Tom Sexton attended the June 17 meeting of the Waseca County board of commissioners to provide a summary regarding this year's legislative session. Pictured here, from left, are commissioners Brad Milbrath, Brian Harguth, Brad Krause, Sexton, De Malterer and Doug Christopherson.
Waseca County Board chair Doug Christopherson opened the June 17 regular meeting with a moment of silence for legislators attacked on June 14: State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed. State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were wounded and are recovering...
Sarah Kay Hoffman, left, and Makayla Selvik, right, have owned Refinery 507 and Thyme on Main for four years now.
“When we first bought this building, the intention was never to run a restaurant,” Sarah Kay Hoffman, co-owner of Refinery 507 and Thyme on Main, said.
While running a restaurant wasn’t a part of their original plan, Hoffman and her business partner Makayla Selvik ran restaurant and...
Wrapping up the festivities was the Hay Daze parade — also known as the Fathers’ Day parade — at 1 p.m.
Fashion and pageants. Music and tournaments. All that and more were part of this year’s sixty-fifth Janesville Hay Daze celebration, which began June 9 and continued through June 15. Grand Marshall this year was Dave Blasing.
Monday was a fashion show sponsored by Simply Saved Thrift Store...
MARKTETPLACE COMING SOON - Left to right, row 1: Mark Christiansen, Darren Arndt, Katie Gonzales, Diane Beckamnann, Tom Sakovitz, Robin Dulas, Chris Kennelly, Mikhail Rostislavovich, Lori Bonin, Tom Sexton, Brad Milbrath, De Malterer, Doug Christopherson. Row 2: Jon Froke, Kevin Clemons, Carl Sonnenberg, Dr. Jay Bulfer, Stacey Schroeder, Ann Staloch, Bernie Gaytko, Brad Krause, and Mark Basara
The Marketplace property, a long-anticipated development site in Waseca, has reached several major milestones and is now officially moving forward under the direction of Rebound Partners, a developer known for revitalizing communities through thoughtful, community-centered projects, along with...
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