Lake City Graphic

Letter: Keep COVID-19 charts coming

Aug 12, 2020

I want to commend you for including data on Wabasha County’s COVID-19 rates in the Graphic the past few weeks. It is important information for citizens of Lake City to see and your graphs and tables give clear evidence of what is happening. I would like to encourage you to continue providing these...

Council candidates to share views in person and in print

Jul 25, 2018

Voters in the Aug. 14 Lake City City Council primary election can learn more about the candidates at an Aug. 2 candidate forum and in the Aug. 2 issue of this newspaper. The field of eight candidates for three city council seats will be narrowed to six on Aug. 14. The general election is Nov. 6....

City Council honors Bob Parrott

Mar 14, 2018

Bob Parrott (left) received recognition from the City of Lake City for nine years on the city’s Library Board at the March 12 City Council meeting. Mayor Mark Nichols (right) took the opportunity to summarize Parrott’s community involvement and recognitions over the years, including stints on the...

Editor: A whole new year

Jan 3, 2018

2018 is here, and the Graphic is looking forward to it. Below are several brief submissions from local leaders and organizations about the challenges, opportunities and initiatives of the year ahead, as well as a more in-depth look at Lake City from Mayor Mark Nichols. I hope they are just the...

Letter: Wonderful, amazing, fantastic, Footloose

Nov 16, 2017

How do you describe the great all-school play from this past weekend? Many adjectives would be necessary. Where do you start? The music was wonderful, the choreography amazing, the dancing, the singing, the acting all fantastic. It must have taken so many hours. Where do you find that number of...

For Shopper carrier, a soaked so-long

May 3, 2017

Nicholas Hartzell, 12, and his mom, Heidi, brought two umbrellas with them to do Nicholas’ final route delivering the Lake City Shopper Tuesday. The Shopper, the sister publication of the Lake City Graphic, shifted away from carriers to mail distribution this week following the move of print...

Publishers: Graphic and Shopper will be printed in Red Wing

Apr 26, 2017

Beginning next week, the Lake City Shopper and Lake City Graphic will be printed and prepared for mailing at RiverTown Multimedia in Red Wing, Minn. Publishers Terry Schumacher and Dean Schumacher will retain ownership of the Lake City Graphic and Lake City Shopper. The Graphic and Shopper...

After 25 years, Graphic editor calls it a day

Jan 5, 2017

The Dec. 29 issue of the Graphic was the last for Richard Ousky. Ousky’s retirement came almost 25 years to the day after he assumed the role of editor from the retiring Jim Miller on Jan. 1, 1992. He traces his time in Lake City to a brief conversation he had with a former Graphic publisher, the...

Goede dies at 95

Sep 8, 2016

Pastor Ralph Goede died Friday. He was 95. Goede was pastor of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church for 35 years until his retirement in 1991. He also served Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Churches in Wabasha, Thiensville, Wis., and Milwaukee, Wis. For 12 years in his retirement he wrote a...