Waltham News

Antique Appraisals with Steve Wesely of Cresent Sales and Auctioneering were held on Tuesday, March 2nd at the Moose Lake Civic Center.A Appraisals were held at 1:00 p.m.A Eleven individuals participated.

The Mower County Board of Commissioners plan to send a letter to Ingrid Bjorklund, a project manager with the Minnesota Office of Energy and Security, stressing that developers of a potential 300 megawatt wind farm coordinate their planning with the county.

Wind farm Project area: About 70,000 acres in Hayfield and Vernon townships in Dodge County and Waltham, Sargeant, Pleasant Valley, Red Rock, and Dexter townships in Mower County.

The Lansing Post Office and 12 other properties in Mower County have been forfeited to the state and are now under the county's control.

A southern Minnesota sheriff's deputy has been cleared of allegations that he used excessive force by unleashing his police dog on a suspect.

Mower County sheriff's deputy Jeff Ellis was found not guilty by a Minneapolis jury Friday in an excessive force trial that involved his national champion K-9, Tazer.

A Mower County sheriffa s deputy and the national champion K-9 Tazer are the focus of an excessive force trial that started Monday in a federal courtroom in Minneapolis.

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

An area farmer is down one $120,000 combine after it caught fire Friday evening.

Police report, Oct. 13

After a week of roaming northern Mower County fields and roads, a nearly 200-pound llama was shot and killed by authorities Monday after attempts to capture it failed.

After a week of roaming northern Mower County fields and roads, a nearly 200-pound llama was shot and killed by authorities Monday after attempts to capture it failed.