Annandale News

ANNANDALE - Joy Karels of St. Cloud remembers family visits to Minnesota Pioneer Park in Annandale as a child.

PAYNESVILLE - Four people were injured in a three-vehicle collision on Minnesota Highway 23 six miles west of Paynesville this morning, according to a report from the Minnesota State Patrol.

A long serving member of the Annandale High School teaching staff decided to call it quits, twenty years ago this week.

The Transportation Specialist Award was given to Cheryl Johnson, Marv Ziner, Yale Pulling, Dorothy Sorenson, Deb Niebolte and Marv Chmelik.

SARTELL - Nick Zierden threw a complete-game two-hitter to lead Sartell to a 5-1 win over Becker in an American Legion Sub-District VI baseball game Thursday night.

Biology students at Annandale High School carefully dissect dead pigs. The precision necessary is not unlike what it takes to make a school boundary change.

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood/And sorry I could not travel both," begins Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken." Minnesota WorkForce Center career counselor Kelly Gerads described the famous verse when talking about the career paths of St.

Since the decision was made about one year ago to partner with Annandale and Maple Lake for the construction of a joint wastewater treatment facility, the City of Howard Lake sought Minnesota Public Facilities Authority loan money.

Local festivals help make for summer fun and build a sense of community. Festivals also give people a chance to explore many of the small towns in Central Minnesota.

Old West Society rendition of Western Living History at Pioneer Park, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Features street theater and a Wild West Show, including rope twirling and whip cracking.

ANNANDALE - Police are looking for information about a man who tried to get a woman into his vehicle at gunpoint in Corinna Township.

Sticking to a food budget is a struggle for many families, but two nonprofits are ready to help.

The weather is nice, the grass is starting to turn green, and the area golf courses are all open.

St. Cloud seniors Corron Baskin and Paul LaNave earned first-place medals at the 2009 Minnesota State High School Speech Tournament Friday and Saturday at Gustavus Adolphus College in St.

Mike and Julie Forsberg, Joe Graca and Anne Rich and Jenny and Steve Baher of St.

Camden Twp. offering dust control Camden Township is currently taking orders for dust control services, clerk Roger Sauerbrey said.

Last week's snowfall temporarily delayed the opening of many area golf clubs. But this is springtime in Minnesota, and weather-related issues are par for the course.

Julie Starke, certified diabetes educator and registered dietician at the Marketplace in Cokato, knows that diabetes is a disease one can't take a vacation from.

Someday you'll laugh. But that day is not the day you open a tear-stained letter from summer camp about icky food and renegade chipmunks, stomachaches and splinters.

It started with a few collection jars at local businesses. Now there is $40,000, well over 10,000 books - about five for every person in town - and countless hours of volunteer work.