Jean Margaret Miller
Jean Margaret Miller, 69, of Clarkfield died Monday, November 28 in an automobile accident. Her funeral service will be at 11 a.m., Monday, December 5 at Harvey Anderson Funeral Home…
November 2022
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Shirley Lecy
The funeral service for Shirley Lecy, 97, of Granite Falls took place at 1 p.m. on Monday, November 21, 2022, at Sunset Funeral Home in Echo. Visitation was one…
Peter Vedell
Peter Vedell passed away Friday, November 25, 2022, at Homestead Hospice House in Owatonna at the age of 53 following a courageous battle with brain cancer. Funeral services will be held…
Phyllis Stavne
Phyllis Stavne, 81, of Granite Falls passed away on Tuesday, November 22, 2022, at Clarkfield Care Center in Clarkfield. A Gathering of Family and Friends will be held Monday, November…
Elizabeth “Libby” Dack
Elizabeth “Libby” Johnson was born on November 3, 1938, in Clarkfield to Henry and Edna (Olson) Johnson. She was baptized and confirmed at Clarkfield Lutheran Church and graduated from the…
Michael George Stangeland
Michael George Stangeland was born on February 13, 1963, to George and Betty (Sueverkruepp) Stangeland at his family home in Gary, S.D., having been delivered by his grandma, Alma Stangeland.…
Ardith Grothen
The funeral service for Ardith Grothen, 87, of Alexandria, formerly of Hanley Falls, will be Saturday, December 3, 2022, at 2 p.m. at Yellow Medicine Lutheran Church in Hanley Falls.…
Notes from the Granite Area Arts Council
Though art often involves a lot of work, it does have a habit of inducing novelty. Despite living here for over two years, I confess I’d never been to the KCC before Wednesday, November 16, when CAIR and the Arts Council descended upon it for our artist- in-residence’s Maker Day. I showed up early to grind out some emails in the conference room, passing the lower half of the multicolored Wonder Beast Leah and the YME students have welded together out of old swingset parts, and soon after I sat down, I overheard a group of people discussing said Beast as they too happened upon it.
KCC hosts craft and vendor show
LeeAnn Boehne, an independent Ruby Ribbon stylist, is shown with her booth at the KCC Craft Show on November 19th. Boehne sells upper intimates that can be worn under clothes or as stand alone pieces.
New historic marker in Granite Falls honors Nellie Volstead
Many in the local area have heard about Andrew Volstead and his work in the prohibition, but at the same time as that work was taking place in the early 1900s, Volstead’s wife Nellie was working on the Women’s Suffrage Movement. “The prohibition women and the suffrage movement women were a lot of times the same group of women,” says Granite Falls Historical Society Board Member Mary Gillespie.