Lake City

Care center in Lake City receives recognition

Mar 20, 2019

The care center at Mayo Clinic Health System in Lake City was recently selected as an Infection Prevention and Control Data Champion in recognition of its successful participation in the national Nursing Home C. difficile Initiative.“We are pleased to receive this recognition,” says MacKenzie...

Drone’s-eye panorama of Lake City

Mar 14, 2019

Lake City photographer Ben Threinen stitched four drone photos together to creat this panorama aerial view of Lake City and the Mississippi River.

Miles Johnston Jazz Trio performs Saturday, Feb. 9, at the Railhouse

Feb 7, 2019

The Miles Johnston Jazz Trio will perform Saturday, Feb. 9, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Railhouse Grill in Lake City. Johnston and friends play a variety of standards, blues and jazz taken from the great American song book and from Miles’ original music repertoire. Pianist Larry Price teaches...

Low vision group to learn about new glasses on Feb. 14

Feb 7, 2019

The Lake City low vision/no vision support group meets Thursday, Feb. 14, at 2:15 p.m. at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 110 South Oak St. Roberta Dahling from Lake City will be the guest speaker about new advances in seeing eyeglasses. She will be Skyping with her brother in Florida who owns...

Letter: Ice boats demonstrate city's four-season potential

Jan 24, 2019

To the editor: Several Lake City businesses received what might be considered late Christmas gifts, thanks to different groups of ice boaters from around the six- or seven-state area coming here to race on Lake Pepin, on three consecutive weekends! Some racers arrived and boated on each Friday....

Mayo to offer tour of renovated ED

Jan 22, 2019

Mayo Clinic Health System in Lake City will host a community open house on Wednesday, Jan. 23 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. to celebrate the opening of the hospital’s newly renovated emergency department. The event marks the completion of the $1.1 million expansion that began in the spring of 2018.The...

City Council member Mary Lou Waltman resigns

Jan 17, 2019

Lake City City Councilmember Mary Lou Waltman submitted a letter of resignation to Mayor Mark Nichols and City Administrator Rob Keehn on Friday, Jan. 11. Waltman, who had two years left in her current term, wrote that she was stepping down because of her health. The resignation doesn’t become...

Task group forms to push for interpretive center

Jan 17, 2019

We have a dream to create a Lake Pepin Interpretive Center in Lake City and have shared our ideas with the Historical Society, Economic Development Authority (EDA), and Destination Lake City (DLC) organizations. We are now in the process of forming a task group and welcome input from the entire...

Schmidt and Halvorson receive honorary lifetime memberships in LCHS

Jan 9, 2019

The Lake City Historical Society (LCHS) honored members Katie Schmidt (seated left) and Donna Halvorson (seated right) with Honorary Lifetime Memberships in the LCHS on Dec. 18. Seated, from left: Schmidt, Constance Anderson and Halvorson; standing, from left: Wayne Quist, Don Schwartz, Todd...

Grateful to have grown up here

Dec 6, 2018

To the editor: In early October I attended the 50th class reunion of Lincoln High School of 1968. By the way, 1968 was quite a year in our history. I moved after my sophomore year, so I did not graduate from there but was invited as a former classmate. First of all, I want to thank those people...