Silver Lake News

Sometimes you can do everything right, for all of the right reasons, and things can still go wrong.

The McLeod County parks will be officially closed for the season Sunday, Oct. 4. Gates will be closed, but anyone wanting to hike or walk through the area parks is welcome.

After years of circling, Sonic Drive-in is in Rochester shopping for a landing spot.

Share + Sep 18, 2009 5:59 pm US/Central SILVER LAKE, Minn. 1 of 1 The Hallahan family wants to adopt Win Tran.

Spin this section anyway you please there is a new contender in class AAA who moved down a class.

The Glencoe-Silver Lake Board of Education must accept or reject a $10,000 offer for the former McLeod West School building and property in Brownton at its next meeting.

Three months after Brian and Melissa Gregg got married they went through what the Rochester couple calls "Relationship: 101" -- learning to ride a tandem bicycle.

Lester Prairie resident Douglas Jilek, president/CEO of First Community Bank Lester Prairie and First Community Bank Silver Lake, was elected chairman of the Independent Community Bankers of Minnesota during the association's annual convention Aug.

After 20 years as race director for the Rochester Women's Four-Mile, Jeanne Block was going to step aside.

A lack of demand and a full supply of gasoline in the United States is apparently the ideal combination for lowering gas prices.

The Rochester Fire Department is applying for $4 million in federal stimulus money as it tries to accelerate the replacement of its aging fire station near Silver Lake.

Yes, that goose is loose inside the lobby at RPU. Judging by Mary Pat's question and another I've dealt with previously, it would probably be best if all the goose statues were outside, where shutterbugs and drive-by viewers can take a look.

The shoreline planting project around Rochester's Silver Lake has reached an important milestone.

What goes in must come out, right? Not necessarily, at least not anymore at the Silver Lake Power Plant.

The Lester Prairie Ambassador Program is on hold for another year, according to program coordinator Lisa Leaf.

Jake Monk celebrated his birthday by running Saturday morning. The 17-year-old Glencoe-Silver Lake cross country and track and field athlete ran in the Star of the North 5K Trail Run on the Graystone Trails to get some training in for the upcoming cross country season.

A Lester Prairie resident died in a crash Wednesday afternoon in Lester Prairie, according to the Lester Prairie Police Department.

WRIGHT, McLEOD, CARVER, MN - Senior citizens have a number of opportunities in the area to get together with other seniors through clubs and dining sites.

Colin Dingfelder scored on a wild pitch and Andrew Helland scored on a sacrifice fly by Gabe McDowell in the 12th inning to send La Crescent to a 4-2 victory over DeLaSalle in the Class AA semifinals at Dick Putz Field in St.

Good teachers find ways to make connections with their students, and based upon the comments of his former students, Lester Prairie science teacher John Rosell has found plenty of ways - some of them a bit unconventional - to do just that.