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Heise named to All-WCHA Team

Mar 4, 2020

Minnesota Gopher Women’s Hockey player Taylor Heise has been named to the All-WCHA Team. Heise is a Lake City native and the daughter of Amy and Tony Heise. A sophomore, Heise is one of six Gopher players to receive the honor this season. Last year she made the All-WCHA rookie team. This year she...

Grandfather’s sweater dates to Gopher’s golden season

Jan 9, 2020

When the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers beat the Auburn University Tigers 31-24 on New Year’s Day, they accomplished something that no Gopher team had done since 1904: win more than 10 games in a season. Joe Kjelland of Lake City has a personal connection to that 1904 team. His grandfather...

Gopher band member plays at football season’s thrilling coda

Jan 9, 2020

When the football Gophers of the University of Minnesota beat Auburn University 31-24 in the Outback Bowl in Tampa, Fla., on New Year’s Day, Victor Holland was there pumping up the crowd as a member of the Gopher marching band. Holland, a University of Minnesota freshman and 2019 graduate of...

Professor to speak on Alzheimers Nov. 8 in Zumbro Falls

Nov 1, 2018

A statewide tour by University of Minnesota Professor Joseph Gaugler on “Alzheimer’s Disease: What It Is and What Can Be Done” will make two stops in Wabasha County on Nov. 8. Approximately 94,000 Minnesotans live with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia, and a quarter million people provide...

Tigers march alongside Gophers

Sep 19, 2018

Six Lake City Marching Band members took part in the University of Minnesota Marching Band Day (UMMB) on Saturday, Sept. 8. The event included the 330 member University of Minnesota Pride of Minnesota Band and over 800 high school band students from around the state. The day included rehearsal...

Fall season sports meeting to be Aug. 9

Aug 8, 2018

On Thursday, Aug. 9, at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium there will be a fall sports parent/athlete/coach meeting.This meeting is for student/athletes in grades seven through 12 who plan to participate in fall sports and their parents. Those students who do not participate in fall sports along...

Experimental greenhouse promises fresh produce in the dead of winter

May 9, 2018

It was hot enough that people were conversing in the shade when they could Saturday, May 5, at the Lake City Catholic Worker Farm. But deep winter is coming, and the newly constructed greenhouse they had come to see could be producing fresh lettuces, herbs, brassicas, Asian greens and sprouts when...

Felled tree has stories to tell

Mar 21, 2018

The remains of a burr oak tree that used to stand at the Department of Natural Resources field office in Lake City could contain a a lot of otherwise unobtainable data about the weather and environment in Lake City over most of the past two centuries. But to get the information out, researchers...

Taylor Heise competes for third world championship

Jan 10, 2018

Lake City native Taylor Heise is leading the Team USA Under-18 Women’s Hockey Team in its quest for a fourth consecutive gold medal at this year’s world championships in Dmitrov, Russia. Heise, now participating in her third tournament with the team, is its captain this year. So far she has proven...

Heise signs with University of Minnesota

Nov 16, 2017

Hockey world champion and rural Lake City resident Taylor Hiese signed a national letter of intent Nov. 8 to play hockey at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Heise is a back-to-back world champion as a member of Team USA 18U women’s hockey team. She attends and plays hockey for Red Wing...