Spring Grove News

By Craig Moorhead Special for the Argus At the Oct. 19 meeting of the ISD #299 Board of Education winter sports coaching contracts, snow removal and other seasonal issues were on the agenda, along with budget concerns.

It's an old story: Country kid comes to the big city to make a fortune. It played out in the Minnesota banking market in the last decade, as several rural community banks opened branches in the Twin Cities area, hoping to tap into a booming market, according to analysts.

An Onalaska, Wis.-based company that owns two score of McDonalda s restaurants in the Midwest has purchased the one on North Bridge Avenue.

By Charlie Warner Argus News Editor With the advent of fall comes later sunrises and earlier sunsets, which means we are spending more time driving in the dark.

In the competition for students, not all school districts are created equal. In the past decade, declining enrollment has been a fact of life for most of the 34 school districts in southeastern Minnesota, but the pain has not been distributed evenly, a review of state data shows.

Federal and state regulators on Friday closed another Minnesota bank -- this one in the northwest Twin Cities metro.

Emergency units were called to the scene of a tractor-vehicle accident Oct. 18 at 11:29 a.m. According to Kelley McGraw of the Minnesota State Patrol, Thomas Osborne of Spring Grove was east bound on Highway 44 near the Tru-Gas tanks several miles east of Caledonia, when his Jeep Cherokee rear-ended a tractor driven by Richard Leary of Caledonia.

A metal pole shed containing 350 big round bales was a total loss following a fire at the Burdell Hahn farm in Yucatan Township.

There are few businesses in southeastern Minnesota that can trace their lineage to the 19th century.

One in five state-regulated Minnesota banks and credit unions are on watch lists for being failure risks, a top commerce official said Tuesday.

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Spring Grove, Minn.-based Jennings State Bank was closed by regulators Friday, marking the 97th U.S. bank failure of 2009.

Jennings State Bank made it through the Great Depression in the 1930s and the farm crisis of the 1980s, but the present-day real estate crisis proved too much for the little bank to bear.

By Charlie Warner Argus News Editor What would being a licensed attorney of law and an artist who now makes her living creating oil and acrylic paintings have in common? Ask former Caledonia resident Doris Besikof.

Mike "Lucky" Volkenant sells old stuff -- boxes and boxes of it -- in his neatly organized laundromat/second-hand store in Spring Grove.

Knowing the difference between butterfly weed and purple prairie clover is part of a day's work for Bill Carter, president of Prairie Moon Nursery, which offers customers about 600 species of wildflowers and other plants, all native to the upper Midwest.

By Craig Moorhead Special for the Argus On Aug. 17, ISD #299 directors met at the Caledonia Elementary media center, making final preparations for the 2009-2010 school year.

While 45 percent of Minnesota's schools found themselves unable to meet No Child Left Behind benchmarks this year, four small southeastern Minnesota school districts haven't had that problem.

Long before the days of air conditioning, many people found pleasure in sleeping on their screened-in porch in the summertime, or sometimes on their second-story deck or balcony.

The Bluff Country Artists Gallery in Spring Grove awarded $1,000 art scholarships to Clint Grabhorn of Brownsville and Garrett Cross of Spring Grove June 27.