Dassel News

A longtime Minnesota state senator is announcing his retirement. Five-term Sen. Steve Dille, a Republican from Dassel, says he won't seek re-election next year.

Ronda Sarner Anderson, author of a oeWeezer the Sneezer Finds a Home,a will sign her new book from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov.

The concept of hard-working, tough-nosed athletes from rural America has become somewhat of a clich these days, and with that clich has sprouted a number of stereotypes.

"He was a Mr. Fix-it," Debbie Martinson said of her father, Lawrence Berg of Dassel, who passed away in May.

A steady flow of curious people attended the opening program Oct. 25 of the traveling exhibit from the prestigious Smithsonian Institution, offered at the Dassel Museum via the Dassel Area Historical Society.

The city of Dassel, population 1,350, bills itself as the a oeHome of the Red Rooster.a One of its big events each year is the Red Rooster Days, which features a street dance, fireworks, antique tractor show, and a oeMinnesotaa s largest chicken barbecue,a among other attractions.

To hear the buzz, the new SweeTango that went on a sale this week at select grocery stores could eventually dethrone Honeycrisp as the "must have" apple.

With many teenagers having a harder time finding a summer job this year, local seed companies had plenty of applicants to choose from when it was time to hit the fields for detasseling this past July.

Scott Heilig of Rice, MN and Donna Attallian, of Rogers, MN announce the engagement of their daughter Sarah to Jay D. Schroeder, son of Lawrence and Marilyn Schroeder of Dassel, MN.

The gist: Primitives and refinished wood pieces; vintage stoneware, linens and bric-a-brac. Don't miss: "Grandma's House" stuffed with discounts.

The mad scientists and revolutionaries at Ever Cat Fuels, which opens a pilot biodiesel fuel plant in Isanti in September, launched a "Declaration of Energy Independence" on July 4. Clayton McNeff, a chemist whose family-owned chemicals concern is building the $7 million plant, plans to prove his patented "Mcgyan" process, which uses metal oxides ...

David & Mary Klug of St. Cloud announce the engagement of their daughter, Allison Sue Klug, to Isaac Whitfield Reynolds, son of Thomas & Meribeth Reynolds, Dassel, MN.

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.