The Blue Earth Area girls tennis team had a successful week of competition, besting Worthington on Friday, Sept. 25 before going head-to-head with United South Central on Monday, Sept. 28. BEA 4, USC 3 The BEA Buccaneers and the USC Rebels had an incredibly close matchup on Sept. 28, but ...
The Wells City Council meeting on Sept. 28 was rolling right along and after 17 minutes there was only one item left on the agenda, the passing of the preliminary tax levy for 2027. Among the first items discussed about the 2027 levy was the fact that the number voted on at the meeting was a ...
The Blue Earth City Council passed Resolution 26-43 setting the 2027 preliminary tax levy at a total of $3,251,000 at a Special City Council meeting held on Monday, Sept. 28. This is a proposed increase of $633,482 from the 2026 final tax levy of $2,617,518, or a 24.2 percent increase, and ...
The saga of the building located at 101 Willis Street in Elmore continues. At a Faribault County Board meeting on July 7, Elmore mayor Zach Dahl reported the roof of the building had caved in and the east wall was only being held up by a tree. The building in question, along with two other ...
Sarah Ferguson, the executive director of the Blue Earth Chamber of Commerce and the Blue Earth Convention and Visitors Bureau, announced her resignation to the Chamber Board of Directors at their meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 23. Ferguson’s last day working at the Chamber of Commerce office ...
Her road to becoming a pastor may have not been a conventional one, but pastor Kelly Figueroa-Ray is excited to now be serving Hope United Methodist Church in Blue Earth. “I grew up outside the church,” Figueroa-Ray says. “I found faith when my mother signed me up for a UMC (United ...
The Blue Earth City Council made the decision to switch the Point Of Sale (POS) system used by the Blue Earth liquor store to Rate Zero during their meeting on Monday, Sept. 21. They also approved some additional emergency repairs for the Blue Earth Municipal Swimming Pool, as well as the sewer ...
When asked why she made the decision to open a new consignment store in Wells, one of the reasons Anne Feist gave was her love for her hometown. Anne grew up in Wells where her father, Ray Bidne, was a long-time barber. Anne officially opened her store, The Next Chapter Consignment ...
"When we first moved here, in 2000, this was not on my radar,” says Michele Stindtman. By “this,” she is referring to the creation of MTS Farm and Event Center. They bought the farm place back in 2000, which is located just south of the Blue Earth city boundary. They did a lot of ...
Leonardo and McKensi Rodriguez recently celebrated their wedding – very recently, in fact. The happy couple was wed on Saturday, Sept. 19, and their story starts the way that many couples’ stories do: in high school. “We both grew up here in Blue Earth, and technically we’ve known ...
