Wanamingo News

Last year alone we handed out more than 15,000 toys to kids in S.E. Minnesota. The need is there and with your help we can ensure that no child goes without a gift at Christmas.

By The Associated Press Volleyball St. Croix Lutheran def. Minnehaha Academy, 24-26, 25-23, 25-23, 31-29 A Section 1 East First Round Wabasha-Kellogg def.

Tara Gerads and Brent Jacobson along with their parents, Deborah Groetsch of Avon, the late Duane Gerads of Albany and Kevin & Joyce Jacobson of Wanamingo, MN are happy to announce their engagement.

Matt Addington thought the 2009-10 school year could be tough, but now it appears to be shaping up very well.

A motorcycle struck a tractor pulling an empty horse trailer in southeastern Minnesota, leaving both people on the motorcycle dead, authorities said this morning.

Summer has a full slate of celebrations, and this weekend is one more family event steeped in history.

A motorcycle struck a tractor pulling an empty horse trailer in southeastern Minnesota, leaving both people on the motorcycle dead, authorities said this morning.

Vertical Limit Construction Services, a Wanamingo-based company that erects cell phone towers and wind turbines, recently broke ground on a 28,000-square-foot corporate headquarters.

With demand falling because of the recession, the price farmers receive for their milk has fallen from $18.45 per hundredweight last year at this time to $10.45 this year.

Starting today, you could get busted in Minnesota if you don't buckle up. A new law allows police officers to ticket drivers for not wearing seat belts, even if they have committed no other traffic offense.

If you don't already have enough reasons to buckle up you'll gain one more motivating factor Tuesday.

When a new state law toughening seat belt enforcement takes effect Tuesday, Kathy Cooper of Northfield will be thinking of one person -- her daughter Meghan.

An estimated 25,000 turkeys died after a fire swept through a turkey barn on Friday afternoon in rural Cannon Falls.

" Randolph pitcher Ethan Kuehn held the Knights to two hits in 4 1/3 innings Saturday to help the Rockets advance in the Section 1A West tournament at Riverland Community College.

Wanamingo kicks off its annual Syttende Mai celebration with a lutefisk and meatball supper at Lands Lutheran Church, rural Zumbrota.

Plans for a Byron development that would include a 160,000-square-foot dome sports complex and two restaurants seem to be fizzling out after a Byron Planning and Zoning commission meeting Monday night.

Tuesday's blustery conditions would have been problematic for Cannon Falls senior Andy Althoff a couple years ago because he hits his drives high.

Randy Hinzmann ripped siding off two sides of his old log cabin and found problems were even worse than he expected: a mouse nest between logs, rotting logs, concrete where an old door had been.