Sep 15, 2016
The American Legion Auxiliary invites everyone to Carlson’s Pillow Cleaning Service on Thursday, Sept. 22, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Legion clubrooms on South Washington Street in Lake City.Pillows will be cleaned, deodorized, sanitized and fluffed. This is a mobile unit offering same day...
Aug 24, 2016
An officially homeless veteran who goes by the name Ras Ible spent 50 days on the Mississippi River before calling it quits at Roschen Park this week, at least for this season. Ible was sailing on a raft built to haul his homemade 500-pound rickshaw which, he says, is his home no matter where he...
Jun 2, 2016
In her keynote address at the Lake City Memorial Day observance on May 30, United States Marine Corps Veteran Catherine Gallenberger of Wabasha said that 22 veterans and one current service member take their own lives each day. “10,000 have died by their own hand in the last 10 years,” she said, a...
Jun 2, 2016
A World War II veteran, former city councilman, businessman and bowling pioneer, Syl Thiel, died Tuesday at his home. He was 93.
Airman Thiel served in Holland during the Normandy Invasion.
He was a member of the Lake City City Council for nine years in the 1990s.
He and his wife Phyllis owned and...
Sep 10, 2015
“I woke up this morning to the most perfect view of the sunrise reflecting off Lake Pepin and a cool breeze pushing the waves against the shore,” Abby Kaeser wrote in her blog Sunday. “I couldn’t have asked for a more calm morning after the crazy, backwards day we had yesterday.“
She and two...