Lafayette News

A proposed wind farm in Lafayette Township has drummed up controversy for over two years.Next week, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission could make the final decision on the project.Fox Mankato's Ryan Gustafson has the story.Just west of Lafayette, a proposed wind farm by the city of New Ulm's Public Utilities Commission stands at a ...

It was a fire New Ulm will long remember. Five years ago today, a spark in the butter storage warehouse at Associated Milk Producers, Inc.'s butter plant in New Ulm touched off a perfect storm of a fire, a fire involving 1 million pounds of butter out of three million stored in the plant.

James "Jim" Lund, beloved husband and father, died peacefully at his home Wednesday, Nov.

Melessa Henderson was in town Saturday, touting her first children's book, "A Granny's Heart," which is published by her own recently formed book publishing firm.

Mark Sondag, 56 of rural Lafayette, died Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009 as a result of a truck accident near Lafayette.

A 56-year-old rural Lafayette man died Saturday night in a single-vehicle rollover accident on Nicollet County Highway 1. Mark Sondag was driving a westbound semi tractor/trailer about two miles west of State Highway 22 when the vehicle entered the ditch on a curve and rolled.

A Lafayette man was killed late Saturday when his semi rolled over in a ditch on Nicollet County Road 1 near Highway 22.

Lafayette farmer Clete GoblirschA's fields stretch behind him as he points to an area where the city of New Ulm proposed to put up wind turbines near his property Wednesday.

As the school year gets under way at Lafayette Charter School, the school is reinforcing its special focus: agriculture and technology; character building; differential instruction, in smaller class sections; and involving the community in the education process.

Reegan Kelly's sheep renders an opinion of the goings-on as her owner shows it in the 4-H Junior Sheep Showmanship competition Thursday at the Nicollet County Fair in St.

Buffalo Lake-Hector Elementary Cedar Mtn. District Cedar Mtn. Elementary GFW District GFW Middle Lafayette Charter Madelia District Madelia Secondary Madelia Elementary New Ulm District Jefferson Elementary Washington Elementary Nicollet District Redwood Area Reed Gray Elementary Redwood Valley Middle Redwood Valley Alternative River Bed District ...

Arnold "Arnie" Berdan, 73, of rural Winthrop died Friday peacefully at his home after a five month battle-with duodenal cancer.

About five years ago, the River Bend Education District went through strategic planning sessions that identified building needs as the top priority for the district.

DeLores Petterson of Lafayette died Thursday, July 2, 2009 at the Winthrop Good Samaritan Center in Winthrop.

Area Republicans aren't picking favorites among potential candidates to replace Gov.