When Eldon Steele of Blue Earth was told he did not have much more time to be on this Earth, he decided to make some plans for after his death. Some of those plans included not having a funeral, not having a “fancy” coffin but a wooden one instead, and not having the coffin hauled in a ...
After 65 years of service to the community of Blue Earth, the Blue Earth Lions Club members have voted to dissolve. The vote to do so came at their recent June meeting. The main reason was a decline in membership, specifically a decline in the number of active members, says long-time member ...
Bevcomm, a telecommunication company based in Blue Earth, is announcing it has transitioned from a 100 percent family-owned company to a shared ownership with its employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Bevcomm employees will own 49 percent of the company while the Eckles ...
When sisters Laura Sonnek and Marion (Sonnek) Roessler decided to open a cafe in Minnesota Lake, one of their goals was to create a place with a warm, family-friendly atmosphere. “We wanted a place where people could feel comfortable,” Marion says. “We wanted it to be warm and ...
The Faribault County Commissioners had very few business items on their agenda when they met for their first meeting of the month on July 1. Alissa Oeltjenbruns, who is the vice president of philanthropy for SMIF (Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation), was at the meeting to provide the ...
For several years, Blue Earth resident, amateur fossil hunter and curator at the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History, Jim Pollard, has sponsored taking a local youth and his/her parent on a fossil dig adventure somewhere. This year’s summer fossil dig included 10-year-old Isaac ...
It is not unusual for a city or town to honor a current, or former, resident for things that person did for the city. But, on Saturday, June 21, the tables were turned when a former resident of the city of Delavan presented the city’s current mayor with a plaque for what the town had done for ...
The city of Wells adopted an easy solution to prevent people from sleeping in the restrooms at City Hall at night. They are now locking them. “When the police go around in the evening to lock the restrooms in the parks, they are also locking the restrooms at City Hall,” city administrator ...
When Dustin Olson, the owner of 4 Seasons L&S Repair says the guys in his shop will repair just about anything, he isn’t kidding. “We opened on April 20 of this year and our plan was just to work on automobiles,” Dustin says. “But it didn’t take us long to change our ...
The former municipal liquor store in Elmore has officially been bought and rebranded as the C&E Mini Market, and owner Nancy Arriaza has traveled a long and winding road to get here. “I’m actually not local to the area – I moved here from Las Vegas, Nevada,” Arriaza shares. “I ...
