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MnDOT: Safely share the road during harvest season
Oct 8, 2025
Motorists traveling on Minnesota roads this fall should stay alert for large farm equipment transporting crops to markets, grain elevators and processing plants, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
Crash data shows there were 455 crashes involving farm equipment in Minnesota...
Pop Wagner performs Saturday in Oak Center
Oct 8, 2025
Pop Wagner’s Bunkhouse Chorale will perform at the Oak Center General Store on Saturday, Oct. 11.
The show features “oldtime, jug band, country blues and rowdy folksongs plus lariat tricks by Pop Wagner!”
Tickets are $20 in advance and can be paid online at oakcentergeneral.store website or via...
Y-Knot Tri raises money for environmental learning
Oct 8, 2025
The fourth annual Y-Knot Tri Triathlon was unfortunately cancelled due to inclement weather. While the decision was disappointing for participants, volunteers, and the race committee, the safety of everyone involved remains our top priority.
Thanks to strong community support and the...
Festival celebrates bygone agricultural practices
Oct 1, 2025
The Marilyn and Dwain Gerken farm in rural Lake City was the site of the annual Corn Shredding Autumn Harvest Days festival on Sept. 27-28. What began decades ago as a group of friends putting antique farm equipment to use has grown to include demonstrations, parades, tractor pulls and slow races,...
Forward Bank employees ‘Spread Love’ with jeans fundraiser
Oct 1, 2025
On Friday, Sept. 19, Forward Bank employees paid $5 to wear jeans and turned it into “Spread Love Day.” The group raised over $200 to donate to the Peters Memorial Fund. “Check out the team looking great in their jeans while making a difference in their community,” said Danielle Hegge of the Peters...
Legion, auxiliary donate $2,000 to Packing for the Weekend program
Oct 1, 2025
Joyce Moechnig (right) treasurer of American Legion Auxiliary, presents a $2,000 donation to Al and Gay Thompson, representing Packing for the Weekend. Also present from left to right are Bill Otto, commander of Post 110 American Legion; Ray Niemczyk, financial...
Lincoln High School Class of 1950 holds 75-year reunion
Oct 1, 2025
It is the 75th year since 59 members of the Lincoln High School Class of 1950 walked across the stage in the auditorium of Lincoln High School to receive their diplomas. They held their annual reunion luncheon at Bluffside at the Jewel Golf Club on Thursday, Sept. 25. Four members of the class and...
Tom Peschges performs Sunday at arts center
Oct 1, 2025
Red Wing singer-songwriter Tom Peschges will perform at the Lake City Area Arts Center as part of its Coffee House Concert series on Sunday, Oct. 5, at 1:30 p.m. “As a songwriter I would describe my style as a storyteller - the story itself may or may not be true....but there should be a message...
Eagle Bluff executive director speaks to Kiwanis
Oct 1, 2025
Kiwanis heard from, Colleen Forenbacher executive director of the Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center, EBELC, located near Lanesboro. She is pictured with Kiwanian Jen White, on the left, who has led the Lake City Environmental Program for many years. Colleen has been with the Center for 15...
Fair board announces 2026 county fair dates
Oct 1, 2025
The Wabasha County Fair Board announced that the dates for the 2026 Wabasha County Fair are July 15-18, 2026.
“These dates are different from the 2025 fair, as the board has chosen to return to the traditional mid-July schedule due to scheduling conflicts with the last week of July in 2026,” the...
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