Jan 17, 2024
Bonnie Sandberg and Brandy Klindworth, who once lived nextdoor to one another in Lake City, have reconnected as the author and illustrator of the new children’s book, “Hobo Bart.”
The 47 page children’s adventure book written by Sandberg features 20 hand-painted watercolor illustrations by...
Dec 27, 2023
Has anyone been thinking about the Cottonwood trees along the lake and how we are going to lose them? I have and I think it will be a wrong move to chop them down.
We need the trees for their beauty, their resting places for the eagles we love to watch and just because they have been there so...
Oct 4, 2023
Minnesota is often called the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but it could also be called the Land of 20,000 Bridges, according to local author Steve Gardiner, who explores the history of many of the bridges that span the Mississippi River and its extensive tributaries, and includes 142 photos of the...
Feb 22, 2023
The Lake City Public Library invites the public on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 6:30 p.m., to a book talk with Minnesota author, artist, and former Lake City resident Kate Halverson.
Halverson will discuss her memoir Reaching Up to Touch Bottom. The title is based on a line her mother often quoted in...
Feb 8, 2023
What started with the intention of writing a 15-page white paper has grown into a 300-plus page book with many photos chronicling the 50-year history of Camp Lakeview, a National Guard Camp on the south side of Lake City that operated from 1881 to 1931.
It’s called History of Camp Lakeview...
Jun 29, 2022
The guest speaker Monday, June 13, at Lake City Rotary Club meeting was Dean Urdahl. He is a Minnesota State Representative, retired teacher and now writer and soon to be film creator. He came to talk about a Historical Fiction book that he has written, that is soon to become a motion picture. The...
Feb 2, 2022
Lake City author Steve Gardiner has just released his seventh book called “Mountain Dreams: The Drive to Explore, Experience, and Expand.”
He will be visiting Fair Trade Books in Red Wing on Saturday, Feb. 5 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. to sign books and talk with readers.
For Gardiner, the years...
Jan 26, 2022
A former area pastor has written a book about his great grandmother’s journey from Germany to Minnesota. Rev. Stephen Kurtzahn, who retired from St. John’s Lutheran Church in Frontenac and Immanuel Lutheran Church in West Florence in 2018, recently published his book, “No Enduring City: A Story of...
Jul 29, 2020
The Lake City Rotary Club is looking for submissions for its “first and only” pandemic-themed humor and cookbook.
“The Great Pepin Pandemic Cookbook” is planned for release this fall, and the club is looking for hundreds of local recipes, jokes, quotes, and short stories on how to survive a...
Jul 8, 2020
The phone rang late at night. When Dick Eick answered, he heard his daughter Alyson’s voice. She said, “Dad, I have to tell you - I’m a lesbian.”
Dick paused, then said, “You are our daughter and always will be our daughter. No matter whether you are gay or straight, we want you to have a loving...