Stewartville News

Two area grain-dryer fires during the weekend continued a trend related to this fall's wet harvesting season.

Join Tracy's live blog at 11:30 a.m. Thursday. You can take the girl off the farm but you can't take the farm out of the girl.

A few more additions to the leader board took place last week. Rob Downer led the way, using games of 279 and 278 to lift him to a very nice 810 series in Stewartville.

Bells will be ringing starting Friday as the Salvation Army kicks off its annual Red Kettle fundraising drive.

This will be the first holiday season for the Fareway Foods store in Stewartville, and shoppers will find the usual selection of turkeys, hams and all the trimmings for traditional feasts.

Veterans Day is a time to thank men and women for serving our country. But this year, the Veterans Day scene was quite a bit different for the town of Stewartville.

The Owatonna Exchange Club will host the Mayor's Prayer Breakfast Thursday, Nov.

Ivan Stringer American Legion Post No. 164 members carefully lowered a heavy bronze statue onto its platform Wednesday as the brisk wind rippled the line of military flags behind them.

First it was a Tyrannosaurus rex. Then giant creatures from under the sea. Now the large-tusked animals of the Ice Age are coming to Quarry Hill Nature Center in Rochester.

Jane Carol Doucette, 78, of Chatfield, died Friday at the Golden Living Center East in Rochester.

With Halloween falling on a Saturday this year, the temptation for kids to stay out late will undoubtedly be strong.

Five people were injured Sunday in a four-vehicle accident on U.S. 63. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, Peter N. Overlien, 35, of Black River Falls, Wis., was northbound in the southbound lanes of U.S. 63 about 7:35 p.m. when he sideswiped a vehicle driven by Daniel F. Chase, 44, of Stewartville.

With a home-based daycare and four children, Emily Lee knows how to shop for a bargain.

STEWARTVILLE -- Donald James Gifford, age 62, of Marcell, Minn., formerly of Stewartville and Rochester, died Sunday, Oct.

STEWARTVILLE -- Richard W. Jacobson of Stewartville, formerly of Grand Meadow, died Monday at the Stewartville Care Center, where he had been a resident for the past two years.

As she talks about her life and what the Salvation Army's Caring Partners Adult Day Program adds to it, Tina Chinn stops to search for the right words.

If you've got talent, a few local bars have the stage set just for you during open mic nights.

Stewartville's fire station is beginning to deteriorate, so the city council recently decided to form a task force to study what renovations are needed and how to pay for them.

RACINE -- The funeral for Patricia M. Irlbeck will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Oct.

To the person or persons who opened their heart and took it upon themselves to carefully mow the site of the tragic car accident that claimed five lives on Highway 63 between Rochester and Stewartville on May 23: When words are just not enough, how do you