Chatfield News

With "Black Friday" almost upon us, the stakes are high for retailers everywhere.

Four-year-old Mecha Araka tenses up. His eyes roll to the back of his head, and he is no longer breathing.

To this day, the mention of Hillary Clinton's best-selling book "It Takes A Village" often will draw an immediate retort that "It takes a family to raise a child!" The issue: Area schools and agencies are offering homework and nutrition programs for at-risk youth Why it matters: The traditional practice of having one parent at home when children ...

Sort of the antithesis of the brighter side, but Al asnd Jen Whipple, whose Christmas displays at their home have lit up U.S. 63 North since the 1970s are pulling the plug.

When the Houston pubic schools changed its lunch program at the beginning of the school year, students were a little reluctant to put fruits and vegetables on their trays.

In April 2008, Gov. Pawlenty didn't merely veto a proposal to use $400,000 in bonding dollars for the Chatfield Brass Band Music Lending Library -- he singled out the project repeatedly as worthy of special scorn.

Kingsland 14, Chatfield 13 Strike strikes again SPRING VALLEY -- Kingsland is starting to hit its stride.

A steering committee for the proposed Potter Center for the Arts recently shared their plans to not only save Potter Auditorium, but to also preserve the 1918 elementary building that sits next to it.

The Chatfield High School's FFA chapter will be able to make a larger contribution to its annual corn drive this year.

PRESTON -- Earl Roy Hoff, 81, died early Friday morning, Sept. 25, 2009, at Chosen Valley Care Center in Chatfield, following a lengthy battle with cancer.

The Minnesota State Patrol says one woman was injured when her pickup truck left the road and rolled in Fillmore County.

When it comes to requests for state money, the Chatfield Brass Band and Music Lending Library isna t in the habit of tooting its own horn.

AUSTIN -- Dale Allen Beckel, age 72, of Austin, died Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009, at the Chosen Valley Care Center in Chatfield.

This framed portrait of Frances Mary English hangs in the library of the Freeborn County Historical Museum.

Front page ~ Events ~ Lincoln provides inspiration for annual brass band festival Wednesday, 12 August 2009 00:00 The Abraham Lincoln birth bi-centennial provides the focus for this year's Great Western Rocky Mountain Brass Band Festival to be held in Silverton, Aug.

The new 16.9 million dollar Chatfield Elementary School is still a few weeks away from being ready for students.

The new 16.9 million dollar Chatfield Elementary School is still a few weeks away from being ready for students.

The new 16.9 million dollar Chatfield Elementary School is still a few weeks away from being ready for students.

The new 16.9 million dollar Chatfield Elementary School is still a few weeks away from being ready for students.

By the time you read this, Mike Taylor of Rochester will have completed the first leg of a marathon 2,600-mile journey that will take him from Rochester to Atlanta -- on a Segway.