Dassel News

LITCHFIELD a ' The Meeker County Sheriffa TMs Office and Medical Examinera TMs Office are investigating the death of a Waste Management employee who was found lying next to a rolloff container at a job site on Wednesday.

Authorities have just released the name on the man found unresponsive just South of Dassel.

For train enthusiasts, the Old Depot Railroad Museum in Dassel must be somewhat of a paradise.

Gooseberry Jam on My French Toast: "Summertime always brings back fond childhood memories of July vacations spent at my grandfather's farm in Dassel, Minnesota.

An Eagan woman has been named Miss Minnesota 2009. Brooke Kilgarriff will represent Minnesota in the Miss America competition in January.

Date: 6/18/2009 The Minnesota Public Facilities Authority has awarded $37.2 million for projects that will improve municipal infrastructure for drinking water and wastewater treatment throughout Minnesota.

Years ago, I was walking deep in the woods in the Bemidji area when I heard guttural squawking.

A Dassel man is being hailed a hero after helping pull five young anglers from Lake Jennie near Hutchinson Saturday morning.

Last week was marked by bittersweet moments from a number of different angles. It made me think hard about life and remember to slow down.

Submitted by Pat Minelli on May 7, 2009 - 12:06pm. General News MINNEAPOLIS a ' Chaskaa TMs Athletic Park is on the list of Minnesotaa TMs 10 Most Endangered Historic Places in 2009 announced today.

A creamery, a nineteenth-century hotel, a classic ballpark, and a roadside icon represent just a few of the diverse sites named to Minnesota's 2009 list of the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places.

Although many fires are preventable, local fire chiefs and firefighters warn that it only takes one mistake to create a flame with the potential to devastate a home.

"Christus Consolator' 1851 by Dutch artist Ary Sheffer 1795-1858. Given to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in memory of Rev.

MINNEAPOLIS ? The Minneapolis Institute of Arts' newest painting isn't the proverbial Rembrandt discovered at a garage sale, but it is a 19th-century treasure unearthed in the janitor's closet of a Lutheran church in Dassel, Minn.

Just weeks before Christians celebrate their risen Lord, a local pastor stepped foot in the very place where Jesus was said to have been crucified, buried, and rose from the dead.

Republicans who support nuclear power are aglow after a Thursday Senate vote to lift a Minnesota nuclear power plant construction moratorium.

ST. PAUL a ' Minnesota senators today voted to end a long-time moratorium on nuclear-power plant construction.

An important 19th century painting that languished in a church janitor's closet has a new home at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

The earliest of Ary Scheffer's "Christ the Comforter" paintings hangs in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

O n a bluff overlooking downtown Cannon Falls, Minn., roads are crumbling on soil that residents say was never fit for development.