Eyota News

If there is such a thing as judgment day for schools in Minnesota, it was Tuesday, when the results of this year's MCA-II tests were released.

EYOTA, MNa 'The Minnesota State Patrol is reporting at least 2 people are dead following a crash in Olmsted County.

A hay barn fire was occupying Dover and Eyota fire departments Friday night. The fire was reported shortly before 9:30 p.m. at a farm on Olmsted County Road 142 east of Eyota.

A two-car crash is responsible for at least one death this afternoon. Around 3:40 this afternoon this car collided with this van on Highway 14 in Eyota.

EYOTA -- Charlotte Jane Keefe, 86, formerly a longtime resident of the Eyota area, died June 29, 2009, at Tom and Jackie Maier's Adult Services Home-Rochester. The funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 2, at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Eyota,

Al Schumann has had a stack of old pictures just sitting in his garage for years.

Temperatures reached the lower 90's in most of the areas today, making it a great day to be outside.

Dear Answer Man, there is an ice cream truck that visits my friends' neighborhood and I want it to come to MY neighborhood.

VIOLA The 135th annual Viola Gopher Count kicked off Wednesday night. If you ask Marilyn Shea, chairwoman of the Gopher Count, why it has lasted so long, she has a simple answer.

Mike and Joni Walerak of Zumbrota, a daughter. Ana Sujey Pulido Garcia and Edgar Humberto Felix Perez of West Concord, a son.

Cameron Fenton and Hollie Carlson of Grand Meadow, a daughter. Thursday, June 11, 2009 Diane Johnson and C.J. Johnson of Spring Valley, a son.

When the economy and housing market in southeast Minnesota began to slow last year, some area cities decided to put together housing incentives in attempts to draw new construction.

DULUTH - Tim Jobe delivered a one-out single to right center field in the bottom of the 12th inning and Andy Burns scored from second to give the Duluth Huskies a 5-4 victory over the St.

The city of Eyota is offering a deal to new home and business owners that would save them several thousand dollars on building permits in an attempt to boost the population and the economy.

Reuben E. Radtke 1930 - 2009 OWATONNA - Reuben E. Radtke, 79, of Owatonna, died Friday, May 22, 2009 at Owatonna Hospital.

A 27-year-old Rochester man is dead after a head-on collision just east of Eyota yesterday.

One person is dead and four more in the hospital after a head on collision just east of Eyota this afternoon.

War veterans and U.S. flag educators taught Rochester students how to properly raise, lower, fold and retire the flag Tuesday in Soldiers Field Veterans Memorial in Rochester.

For the 12th year, Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation awarded free paint to local organizations through their annual a oePicture It Painteda program.A This year more than $7,600 worth of free paint is helping to beautify communities across the 20-county region.

When push comes to shove, public officials and state agencies are reluctant to nix a big-dollar commercial development project, especially if the opposition's basic argument is perceived as being, "Not in my backyard." Case in point: Twice in the past six months, the proposal to build an ethanol plant just outside Eyota has seemed almost dead in ...