Balaton News

Preliminary tax notices are being mailed out in Lyon County this week, and it looks like the biggest increases will be on farmland, said Lyon County Assessor Dean Champine.

A school bus owned by Russell-Tyler-Ruthton schools and a 1994 Chevy pickup were involved in a collision at 1:57 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Lyon County roads 13 and 16, south of Russell, the Lyon County Sheriff's Department said.

Fire departments from four area towns responded to a brush fire on the southeast edge of Garvin Park in Lyon County at 6:16 p.m. on Wednesday.

Tracy-Milroy-Balaton senior Monica Przybilla had three aces from the service line and six kills on the night to help lead the Panthers to a sweeping victory over Fulda Thursday in Fulda.

The defeat of communism 20 years ago was the most liberating moment in history. So why don't we talk about it more? On August 23, 1989, officials from the newly reformed and soon-to-be-renamed Communist Party of Hungary ceased policing the countrya s militarized border with Austria.

The Lyon County Board on Tuesday gave its support to a proposal to fund construction of a new library in Marshall, but commissioners also voiced concerns over a lack of public support for the library project.

Eric Theodore Sovell, 26, whose address was listed as the Lyon County jail appeared in Lyon County District Court Sept.

Marshall, Tracy, Minneota, Wabasso and Yellow Medicine East's enrollment numbers are up and other area schools are holding steady or losing as the state calculates what those numbers mean.

Running for Canby-Minneota-Lincoln HI are Chelsea Deslauriers and Morgan Merritt .

A group led by Dr. Michael Teitell at UCLA has demonstrated that misregulation of the protein SPAK may contribute to B-cell lymphoma development.

When people think 4-H and county fair, they think livestock, but some kids competing at the Murray County Fair don't have any livestock, just projects.

It takes a lot of help to get dairy cattle ready for the ring and it's hard to keep those white clothes clean while doing it.

Javier Virgen, 37, of Marshall pleaded guilty in Lyon County District Court July 22 to a charge of terroristic threats.

It's not a tough job to sample all those apple pies, what's tough is to pick a winner.

He's just doing what he's been doing for years, said Jeff Chandler, and he isn't sure exactly why his family was chosen Lyon County's 2009 Farm Family of the Year by the University of Minnesota.

Jeremy Elijah Johnson, 32, of Hanley Falls appeared in Lyon County District Court July 17 and admitted violating his probation.

He's just doing what he's been doing for years, said Jeff Chandler, and he isn't sure exactly why his family was chosen Lyon County's 2009 Farm Family of the Year by the University of Minnesota.

Ruth Anderson looked up from the photos of her life to think about the question.

It's one thing to be the oldest person in the room. It's quite another to be the oldest in the state.

One of my longtime readers came to meet up with me in Beantown and we went to hit the American Craft Beer Festival that happened this past weekend in Boston's World Trade Center complex.