Faribault County Historical Society representative Randall Anderson attended the Faribault County Board meeting on Tuesday, May 5 with a request that the commissioners restore its annual financial commitment to the organization. “Three years ago the Board of Commissioners terminated its ...
After 55 years on KBEW radio, the popular morning show called ‘Juba’s Jabber,’ aired for the last time on Friday, May 1. “I moved to Blue Earth on Halloween of 1971,” Tom Juba says. “I came here because we had purchased the grocery store here and I was going to run it.” Tom ...
While the final assessment hearing for the South Linton Area Street & Utility Improvement project was the primary agenda item for the Blue Earth City Council meeting on Monday, May 4, they also discussed the sealed bids that came in for the property at 1006 East Fifth Street. City ...
There is a new business in Blue Earth, but actually neither the business itself or the building they recently moved into could be considered new. Kevko Racing is now located in a building on North Main Street, across from the west entrance to the Faribault County Fairgrounds. It had formally ...
The Wells City Council, at their meeting on April 27, ended their night with a discussion on the final version of the Wells Strategic Plan. The discussion ended with the council tabling any action on approving the final plan while also having a somewhat difficult talk about the future of the ...
There is something a little bit different going on in the back room of the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History. And it involves a whole lot of very old bones. A professional skeleton creator is making a bison skeleton out of 7,000-year-old bones. How did that all come ...
Scott Vaske, the new owner of the Derby Bar and Grill in Guckeen, admits he wasn’t actively looking to buy a restaurant when he made the decision to purchase the former Derby Inn. But that is what he did. “A lot of people were talking about it (the Derby Inn) and there were rumors that it ...
Winnebago Manufacturing Company held a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday, April 28 for their new major expansion of their production facility in Blue Earth. The planned new 37,000 square foot building will be attached to their existing 60,000 square foot building, Winnebago Manufacturing ...
“There is going to be a delay in the paving of County Road 19,” Denny Wick, of the Public Works Department, told the commissioners at the Faribault County Board meeting on April 21. “It has been pushed back to May 4 because there were a couple of soft spots in the road.” Wick said he ...
Students at United South Central School in Wells might have a bigger smile on their faces when they learn they will be getting out of school one day earlier than originally planned. “I am suggesting modifying the 2025-2026 academic calendar by moving the last day of school to Thursday, May ...
