Thomas “Tom H. Bechtel, age 90, of Caledonia, passed away on June 3, 2025. Tom was born January 14, 1935, in Lansing, Iowa, son of Theodore and Harriet (Peterson) Bechtel.

The summer food service prices for adults were approved at $4 for breakfast and $6 for lunch, which is the required amount by the State of Minnesota. The 2025-26 Taher budget for food services was ...

Allison Whalen, CEDA, encouraged commissioners to write a letter of support for a Seed Grant from Community Heart & Soul Initiative at the board’s May 27 meeting.

Jerome Michael O’Connor, age 84, passed away surrounded by family on May 30, 2025, at Saint Marys Hospital, Rochester, Minn. Jerome was born on Good Friday, April 11, 1941, Preston, Minn., to Raymond ...

Noah came to IBA with a good background in farming. He grew up on a hobby farm at Pilot Mound; at 14 he started milking at a dairy farm in Lewiston and later milked for Rahn Sass at his dairy east of ...

In one case, a local resident selling farm equipment online received a check for more than the agreed amount. The scammer asked him to forward the extra funds to a woman in Virginia. After the check ...

Mabel First Lutheran Church, Scheie Lutheran Church and Henrytown Lutheran Church. As we celebrated Memorial Day last w ...

Caledonia baseball turned to its two 6’6” senior throwers in opening round playoff contests. Combined with some errorless defense, each produced shut-out wins, moving the Warriors in the 1AA third ...

During the May 27 Houston County Commission meeting, commissioners voted to extend the interim moratorium on commercial solar projects for an additional six months. The decision followed a ...

The world lost a creative and beautiful soul on May 22, 2025, when Roma Leone Adair Michel – artist, mother, grandmother, and friend – passed away peacefully at the age of 88 years old, at Evans ...

Fischer Wait (1st 200 > 22.33; 1st 400 > 49.73), Eli Staggemeyer (2nd 100, 5th 200), the 4×200 (2nd > E-Staggemeyer, Owen Staggemeyer, Coby Hammell, Wait), C-Hammell (6th 100), and O-Staggemeyer (7th ...

The previous year, some men had been in the Root River Valley, one of which a Swede named Lundplad had written home about the valley, and the letter was published in a Swedish newspapers. On the way, ...