Spring Valley News

Cameron Fenton and Hollie Carlson of Grand Meadow, a daughter. Thursday, June 11, 2009 Diane Johnson and C.J. Johnson of Spring Valley, a son.

For the past few weeks, when the phone rang at Boe Chrysler Center in West Concord, Signora Boe has at times experienced a strange reluctance to answer it.

When the economy and housing market in southeast Minnesota began to slow last year, some area cities decided to put together housing incentives in attempts to draw new construction.

Volunteers in the Pine Island area are working to create a "Borrow-A-Bike" program, where people can go to Pine Island, borrow a bike for the day and bring it back at no cost.

SPRING VALLEY - More than 20 artists from Haiti are exhibiting their work in Spring Valley as part of an ongoing cultural exchange.

Before you throw the burgers on the grill this holiday weekend, Connie Martin would like your attention.

Stanley Balzekas Jr. stands in the showroom of his family's 76-year-old Chrysler dealership in Chicago.

Kingsland seventh graders don't just read about the Battle of Gettysburg, they live it.

SPRING VALLEY In a special meeting Thursday night, the Kingsland school board voted to cut nearly $440,000 from next year's budget.

A house in LeRoy was destroyed by a fire Monday morning while the man who lives there was at work.

The famed Oberammergau Passion Play the centuries-old re-enactment of the suffering, dying and resurrection of Jesus Christ is attracting more than its share of attention from area travelers this year, although the event itself is months away.

A grass fire destroys a home, a tractor, several vehicles and other out buildings this afternoon, just outside of Grand Meadow.

A man whose hobby is largely made of junk says it has added years to his life. Jason Davis went On the Road to Spring Valley, Minn., to meet the builder and sole owner of "Grab's Railroad." You can see by the outside of the tidy looking home in Spring Valley that someone inside is into trains.

Answer Man, what happens to all the sandbags after a flood like they're having up in Fargo-Moorhead? The millions of sandbags that have been installed along the Red River will be treated as hazardous material when they're removed.

It's a dirty little secret among education circles -- students are dollar signs.

Don't think the luck of the Irish has run out just because St. Patrick's Day falls on a Tuesday.

Troy Lange, 36, son of Larry and Emily Lange, is one of the youngest fire chiefs in the state.

SPRING VALLEY - The Rockland Chapter of the Haitian-American Nurses Association will meet from 4 to 6 p.m. March 21 at Konbit Neg Lakay at 16 E. Church St.

The Albert Lea Business and Professional Women will meet at noon Wednesday at the Ramada Inn.

Larry Yazzie and The Native Pride Dancers perform at the historic Sheldon Theatre.