Area Drivers Qualify for Race of Champions at Fiesta City Speedway
Drivers from around WISSO-TA country came to Fiesta City Speedway to qualify for the race of champions at the WISSOTA 100 in September. T.
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Bones and Hoernmann compete at State
Both Ruby Bones and Patrick Hoernemann competed well at the State Track Meet, says coach Dave Schueler. Ruby finished 14th in the high jump and Patrick finished 14th in the triple jump, meaning both were in the top 14 jumpers in the state of Minnesota. “Pretty cool! It was a great season,” says Coach Schueler. Photo Submitted
Pride of the Pacific
On June 18th, the Ray Fagen Memorial Airshow returns to the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum after a hiatus due to the pandemic. Every airshow held at the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum has a theme, and Diane Fagen, notes this year’s chosen theme centers around the Navy and is titled the Pride of the Pacific. “The reason we chose that is because of the 80th anniversaries that are coming up,” Fagen says. For example, Monday of this week was the anniversary of D-Day, a day with additional significance to the Fagen family, as Ron Fagen’s father Ray was in the 4th infantry and one of the first wave of soldiers to exit the boat onto Utah Beach in France.
Yellow Medicine East Track Banquet held
Shelby Mortensen - Most Improved Varsity Girls Track Athlete. Photo Submitted Nicole Rillo: Most Valuable Girls Track Athlete.
First of the summer’s Makers Markets held
Kindred Spirits, from Marshall, performed live music for visitors to the first of the summer’s Makers Market to enjoy. Photo by Jessica Stolen-Jacobson Nicole Zempel, with help from her mother, sold a variety of jellies and salves made from locally foraged herbs and flowers.
From the Editor’s Desk
With the weekend of graduations past us, I’m left reflecting (and feeling old). Not only reflecting on my own graduates childhood years leading up to this point, but on the years working in journalism in this area.
Two from YME head to State Track Meet
Two athletes from the YME Track and Field team are heading to state today after placing either first or second at the Section Track Meet where over 20 schools competed. Those students traveling to the State Track Meet today are: -Ruby Bones, High Jump: Bones scored 5’1” at the Section meet.
Strategic Farming: Field notes addressed late planting concerns
The cool, wet spring has led to significant planting delays in parts of the state. Others are dealing with flooding after planting.
Adopt a Highway volunteers remove 29,500 bags of trash from roads in 2021
Thousands of Adopt a Highway volunteers helped to keep Minnesota roadsides clean and free of litter in 2021 by picking up more than 29,500 bags of trash from highway ditches, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
Beyond Reason
In the cooler months, Uncle Tony is a staple around the house. Uncle Tony’s usually up at dawn, sipping coffee, enjoying the sunrise, reading the paper. Then you might not see Uncle Tony until the evening. More often than not, Uncle Tony skips happy hour and dinner altogether, emerging to read to the kids, and helping with bath time. On the weekend Uncle Tony might cozy up for a movie. But Uncle Tony is not a fan of the warmer weather. One of the first unofficial signs of summer is./ when it heats up outside and Uncle Tony goes to the basement until fall.