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 Friday, December 2, 2022, at 2 p.m. at Bethel Lutheran…
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 28, 2022, from 4 – 6 p.m. at Wing-Bain Funeral…
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 Clarkfield High School in 1956. On June 29, 1956, Libby…
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. He attended Gary grade school until 1970 when the family…
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. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at…
Any athlete can attest to injuries throughout a career and even through a season. In bareback riding, the strain and stress the body takes during an eight-second ride can make injuries stack up.
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.
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.
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.
Last week I wrote about my trip to Fort Drum, New York to watch my son’s military promotion ceremony. I mentioned that one full day was spent on the ceremony and everything involved with it, and my final day in Upstate New York was spent helping him learn how to shop like a real broke adult, and helping decorate and organize his home. The day in between all of that (trip days bookmarked by two long, terrible flight days), we spent going on an adventure that we decided needed to be an epic one.