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Skelton
The New Richland City Council voted to appoint Councilperson Loren Skelton to fill the remainder of Mayor Chad Neitzel’s term, which expires at the end of this year, in anticipation of his planned departure from the position next month. The council also agreed to accept letters of interest for...
Artist Chandler Anderson works on the “meat and potatoes” of the new Ellendale mural: three of the town’s most revered residents. The 12-foot-by-10-foot mural is being painted inside, then will be installed this summer in the outdoor community garden. Anderson will add buildings, a train, and more detail before finishing the piece later this month. Photo by Kay Fate
STEELE COUNTY TIMES - At first glance, it looked like Chandler Anderson was having a conversation with a few people.
A few more steps into the Ellendale Community Building, though, and it became clear they were people of his own creating.
The artist commissioned to revitalize a mural in...
These representatives of sixth-graders (below) and seventh-graders (above) are among the students whose artwork--much of it created around themes of art used by indigenous peoples across the North American continent--is on display in the secondary school hallways.
NRHEG art teacher Cynthia Gail believes it’s important that student art is available for everyone to see. Toward that end, she has taken projects created by students in sixth through eighth grades and displayed them prominently throughout the secondary school hallways.
“They’re on different...
Dulas
“Crime doesn’t stop at the borders of large metropolitan areas, and it doesn’t stop when the sun sets,” observes Waseca County Sheriff Jay Dulas. “Drugs and crimes continue to travel through Waseca County.”
Between the sheriff’s department and the police departments in Waseca, Janesville...
Located in downtown Ellendale, the Ellendale Cafe
Ellendale has always had Ellendale Café, a small-town eatery which embodies the homey, simple atmosphere its name suggests. LeeAnn Knudson has been an owner/operator of the business for four years and continues to create a lively environment with her lively personality and all her seasonal gnomes...
On Thursday March 21 at 7 p.m. the Freeborn County Historical Museum is hosting Linda L. Christianson, author of All the Steps I Have Taken as she discusses her book. We are excited to partner with AJ’s Book Hideaway on this event. There will be books available to purchase at AJ’s Book Hideaway...
“There are very few weather conditions we won’t go out in,” observes Dan Meier, 51, Operations Manager with Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric. He mentions snowstorms with zero visibility and extreme thunderstorms.
He goes on to say that one of the best ways to assure power is delivered...
Flames roll past as they approach “Moonan Marsch” in northeast Waseca County.
Nearly 2,000 acres of grassland in Waseca and Steele counties were burned Sunday, March 3, while firefighting agencies from around the state, including planes and helicopters dropping fire retardant material, fought against the high winds and dry conditions which had prompted the Minnesota...
The Willows owner Julie Arnold, left and her son Chris O’Brien, who serves as a cook.
The time was right.
Travis Blake, former owner of the Willows restaurant in New Richland liked to joke that if he ever sold the place, he knew who he would offer it to first.
“I asked if he was really serious this time,” Julie Arnold, the new owner of the Willows said. “When he said...
Darelene Abraham stands with her “cadillac” as she refers to her walker.
Darlene Abraham has been a resident of the New Richland Area nearly her entire life. Born in 1936 in Waseca, she spent her early childhood in the Lemond area. Her family moved to New Richland when she was in the middle of the seventh grade. “She has a caring soul, is well liked by all, and is...