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On Pointe Dance Company is strutting their stuff

On Pointe Dance Company has been hard at work preparing for their upcoming recital, “Hello Hollywood,” and instructor Maija Brown is incredibly proud of how far her dancers have come over the course of the season – especially given that this is her studio’s first year participating in ...

BE Council holds Board of Review meeting

It was a relatively short Local Board of Appeals meeting on Monday, April 13, with only a few community members coming out to request adjustments to their property valuations. Prior to opening the floor to the public, county assessor Brady Rauenhorst provided an update on the property sales ...

Winnebago mayor ‘Hearts’ her town

Winnebago’s mayor, Jean Anderson, is not one for sitting around and doing nothing. “I have always been someone who needs to do things, and stay busy,” Anderson says. “I like to make lists of things to do and then go get them done.” Her wanting to be busy started when she was ...

Model railroading – it’s a winter sport

When people retire, a lot of them enjoy having more time to spend on their favorite hobbies. For many, those hobbies include golfing, fishing and camping. But for a chosen few, one of those hobbies is model railroading. But truth be told, for many model railroaders, the train bug bit them at ...

Sheriff Adams receives Patriot Award

Mike Sharp is a deputy with the Faribault County Sheriff’s Department. He is also a Minnesota National Guard member who has to take time off from his duties as a deputy to fulfill his obligations for training/deployments. At the April 7 Faribault County Board meeting, Sheriff Scott Adams, ...

A Special Election set for April 14

Residents of Faribault County have the opportunity to go to the polls on April 14 for a Special Election on whether to fill the position of County Recorder by appointment instead of by election. The question on the ballot reads as follows: Shall the office of Faribault County Recorder be ...

BE Council approves MOU for TalusAg

The Blue Earth City Council approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for TalusAg to begin development on a green ammonia plant located in the West Industrial Park in cooperation with Blue Earth Light & Water at their meeting on Monday, April 6. Tristan Peitz, head of Business ...

BE’s Green Giant gets some GIANT attention

Blue Earth’s Green Giant statue has been getting some interesting state-wide notice in the past week or two. First off, the Blue Earth Giant won a contest as the favorite monument in Minnesota. Then, the Giant was featured in the latest issue of the Mpls.St.Paul magazine as one of the best ...

Blue Earth EDA looks at loan, Ag Center issue

A policy review for the Commercial Business Improvement Forgivable Loan and discussion about air testing in the Ag Center were both on the agenda at the Blue Earth EDA meeting on Thursday, April 9. EDA specialist Amy Schaefer presented the EDA with the text of the Commercial Business ...

They golf and… they mow

Do you sometimes have trouble keeping up with your lawn mowing during the summer? When it is a wet summer, do you have to mow more than once a week? Well, how about if your lawn was 80 acres in size? And you mowed every day? That is what the groundskeeping crew at Minn-Iowa Golf Course near ...