Lanesboro News

While celebrating past accomplishments here at Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation we are also looking forward to the new year, to discover more opportunities for helping communities grow and prosper in 2010.

The last weekend before Christmas will be full of live music in Lanesboro. Keyboardist Dan Chouinard and vocalist Prudence Johnson will join local luminaries for a concert Friday, while folk-rock artist Lucy Michelle also joins local performers for shows Friday and Saturday.

The historic Lanesboro is one Minnesota's best vacation hotspots. Here, friends and family can travel and do a bit of wine tasting, shop for some unique items and enjoy the private fashion show, the scenic outdoors, and maybe even have a little relaxation at the same time.

Stephen Larson moved to southeast Minnesota from the Twin Cities about 16 years ago, hoping to get out of his fast-paced life as a professional chef.

Mayo Clinic scientists in Jacksonville, Fla., have tested a "mind-machine interface" that might someday let people speak or move artificial limbs just by thinking a command.

Last week's Four Stars column on great restaurants in the Rochester area produced these sirloin tips -- make that filet mignon tips -- from readers.

According to an article written by Lisa Brainard of the Preston-Lanesboro Republican-Leader, Fillmore Central School Board members decided by consensus to respond favorably to a request by the Caledonia School Board for a meeting to look at the potential for sharing a superintendent starting in the 2010-11 school year.

Three trout streams around the state have been restored with funds from the Outdoor Heritage Fund, one of the projects that gets money from the additional sales tax money generated by the Clean Water, Land, and Legacy constitutional amendment passed in 2008.

Last week we had a story about some Preston area horse owners who believe a cougar or cougars attacked their horses, and then we had a story from a rural Lanesboro guy who believes his auto-camera captured images of a cougar afoot in that area.

A trail camera placed in the woods by Larry Topness, of rural Lanesboro, snapped a few photos of a large animal that Topness thinks might be a cougar.

Kristen Underwood, who spent 10 years with the Commonweal Theatre in Lanesboro, returns to the stage of the St.

More Hometown landmark supporter chips in to save the Big Fish - October 9, 2009 Hometown landmark supporter chips in to save the Big Fish - Four months after landing on a list of Minnesota's endangered historic sites, a 65-foot-long, muskie-shaped roadside icon is undergoing a critical facelift in the North Woods.

Description: For Sale: 101 North Ash Street, Canton, Minnesota 55922 Zoned: Commercial/Residential For sale is a 22x40 main building circa 1884 with a 24x20 addition circa 1970, and a 16x9 garden shed on 3 buildable downtown-sized half lots - 25x60 each - which together total a 75x60 lot.

Swooping into Lanesboro on Minnesota Highway 16, I nearly rear-ended a black, horse-drawn buggy.

LANESBORO -- The funeral for Ferdinand Boyum, 79, of Lanesboro, will be Wednesday, Sept.

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

Despite the doom and gloom of the economy, business owners in Lanesboro fared quite well during the summer tourist season.

The magazine calls it "perhaps the most vibrant small town in America." With fewer than 800 residents, it supports a thriving arts community, and it's on the popular Root River Bicycle Trail.

Congrats to Lanesboro for making Mother Earth News ' 2009 list of Great Places You've Never Heard Of .

Getting there: Lanesboro is 125 miles south of the Twin Cities, mostly on Hwy. 52 through Rochester, with the final 9 miles along Fillmore County Road 8. Where to stay: The town and its environs are awash in B&Bs . I had a wonderful stay at the Belle Rive , on the top floor of a house abutting the Root River.