Marietta News

Today is the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year of the century. In other words, we know it as 11/11/11. If that doesn't throw you for a loop.

Drive by 10 houses in Winsted or Lester Prairie, and chances are, at least two of the families used the McLeod Emergency Food Shelf in 2010.

Services for Ervin Benck, 97, of Spirit Lake, Iowa, formerly of Canby, will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Canby.

New Ulm Walter "Walt" Koeckeritz, 87, of New Ulm, died Monday, April 12, 2010 surrounded by his loving family at the Oak Hills Living Center in New Ulm.

John Phillip Doran, age 79 of Marietta, Georgia, died Friday, December 25, 2009 in Marietta.