Tower City News

Jean Schlegel / Times-Record Investor Mark Richman, left, and contractors talk at the site of the former Tower View Cafe and Tower Fuel Stop on Wednesday as the buildings' remains are seen in a mash of rubble in the background.

When Henry "Hank" Holden was born in a chicken coop on what is now Valley View Farm south of Valley City on Barnes County Highway 21, he was premature, sickly, and his family feared he wouldn't live.

Maple Valley Elementary Schools have a new alignment this fall. If the Maple Valley School District continued the way the students were placed in fall 2008, only 37 students would have been in grades two through six at the Oriska Elementary School this fall, with no students in kindergarten or first grade.