Thomas “Tom H. Bechtel, age 90, of Caledonia, passed away on June 3, 2025. Tom was born January 14, 1935, in Lansing, Iowa, son of Theodore and Harriet (Peterson) Bechtel.

Marlys Jean Johnson, a beloved mother, grandmother and friend, passed away peacefully on May 31, 2025. Known for her adventurous spirit and forward-looking nature, Marlys lived a life filled with love ...

Jerome Michael O’Connor, age 84, passed away surrounded by family on May 30, 2025, at Saint Marys Hospital, Rochester, Minn. Jerome was born on Good Friday, April 11, 1941, Preston, Minn., to Raymond ...

Mabel First Lutheran Church, Scheie Lutheran Church and Henrytown Lutheran Church. As we celebrated Memorial Day last w ...

Noah came to IBA with a good background in farming. He grew up on a hobby farm at Pilot Mound; at 14 he started milking at a dairy farm in Lewiston and later milked for Rahn Sass at his dairy east of ...

Like millions of other Americans around the country I have been going to rallies to protest what Trump is doing. The response from passersby is overwhelmingly positive: waves, thumbs up, “thank yous,” ...

Fischer Wait (1st 200 > 22.33; 1st 400 > 49.73), Eli Staggemeyer (2nd 100, 5th 200), the 4×200 (2nd > E-Staggemeyer, Owen Staggemeyer, Coby Hammell, Wait), C-Hammell (6th 100), and O-Staggemeyer (7th ...

In one case, a local resident selling farm equipment online received a check for more than the agreed amount. The scammer asked him to forward the extra funds to a woman in Virginia. After the check ...

GMLOKS’ girls won the Sub-2 meet.  Chantle Reiland won four events (100, 200, Long Jump, 4×200) including resetting her own program record in the Long Jump (17’8”).  Breeley Galle (Triple Jump, ...

The previous year, some men had been in the Root River Valley, one of which a Swede named Lundplad had written home about the valley, and the letter was published in a Swedish newspapers. On the way, ...

The world lost a creative and beautiful soul on May 22, 2025, when Roma Leone Adair Michel – artist, mother, grandmother, and friend – passed away peacefully at the age of 88 years old, at Evans ...