Canby News

Norman Fox was born on February 5, 1927 in Canby, Minnesota, to Edward and Anna Peterson Fox.

Sharon Ramswick of Prior Lake left Dawson after her eighth grade year. She returned this past weekend with her husband Al.

The Lhotka, Timmerman and Day Motorcycle Memorial Tour will pass through Clarkfield and Marshall and towns on Minnesota Highway 68 Saturday morning, Chad Turner of the Minnesota National Guard said.

There will be plenty of new things to see and do in Canby this weekend, whether on the ground, in the water or in the air.

Services for Elden "Bud" Heise, 91, of Canby will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Canby.

Have a hankering to learn about wind energy or to land a job in the expanding field? Look south or southwest, where many of the 1,852 megawatts in Minnesota wind power currently wired into the grid are produced.

The Minnesota State Fair and the Minnesota Farm Bureau recognize 114 Minnesota farms as 2009 Century Farms.

It was geography class for the fifth and sixth grade students at St. Peter's Catholic School, and teacher Alda Lueders was showing the class a few low-tech tricks.

The Minneota Vikings took on the Dawson-Boyd Blackjacks in a Camden Conference match up on Monday in Dawson.

Eric Wieneke went 1-for-4 with a double and two RBI to lead the Murray County Central Rebels to a 6-2 victory over Windom Area Monday.

The Dawson-Boyd Blackjacks hosted the Tracy-Milroy-Balaton Panthers and the Canby Lancers in a Camden Conference Triangular on Friday.

Today the search is back on for a missing Minnesota man. Brandon Swanson was last seen leaving a house party near Canby, Minnesota last may.

Minnesotans got a break from months of winter weather as temperatures soared into the 50s and 60s.

''You need to give your son up to the mountain,'' David Francis recalled the officer saying, testifying before a House public safety committee this week.

The dozens of commuters who travel Minnesota Highway 68 from Canby to Marshall may still believe it's a long ways off, but MnDOT project director Patrick Weideman did have some hopeful news this week on a ...

Madelia/ Truman/Martin Luther's 160-pounder Tucker Freeman and Blue Earth Area heavyweight Jake Lee are halfway to becoming state wrestling champions.

Mass of Christian Burial for Andrew Claeys, 78, of Taunton, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St.

Limited visibility in the western part of the state is causing problems for motorists today, but state roads are being cleared and kept open.

Cities and counties in southwestern Minnesota took a $900,000 hit in late December, when state budget cuts reduced local government aid, the Marshall Independent reports .

State budget cuts made in late December have cost area cities and counties at least $900,000 in local government aid money that local governments counted on for 2008 expenses.