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Scouting for Food begins March 17

Posted Mar 15, 2012 @ 08:21 AM

Area Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts representing Twin Valley Council are going to be joining in the fight against hunger from March 17-24.

Molly’s fun and games

Posted Jan 09, 2012 @ 12:54 PM

To Molly Schweinfurter, board games are more than pasttimes — they are ways to study other cultures, and to decorate her home.

COLLECTION CONNECTION - Johnson's plate not just to eat on

Posted Jan 02, 2012 @ 01:06 PM

In the 1930s and 40s, many companies offered plates and silverware as premiums for buying their products.

The thought was, if you buy a bag of flour, or box of laundry detergent, you should get a plate or a spoon for your efforts.Such ceramic premiums are collectors items now, worth anywhere from ten cents to hundreds of dollars each.

To Joyce Johnson, the plate are valuable more for what they say about the times and places they were manufactured.

COLLECTION CONNECTION - Rakke's 220 feet of Christmas lights

Posted Dec 22, 2011 @ 10:49 AM

When he was a little kid growing up in Renville, Bruce Rakke’s parents never put up Christmas lights. With eight children, they had other priorities.

Rakke’s been making up for it ever since he moved to Redwood Falls in 1995.

Conservation minded

Posted Dec 19, 2011 @ 10:04 AM

For generations, the Hogan family has been part of the Redwood County landscape as the farm family has made its living from the land.

While the clan has received from the soil as crop and livestock producers, it has also recognized the importance and value in being good stewards.

That reality was recognized recently when John Hogan and his family were honored with the Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts Outstanding Conser-vationist Award.

COLLECTION CONNECTION - Nichols says, "MMMMMMM!"

Posted Dec 18, 2011 @ 09:28 PM

Eighteen years ago, Carol Nichols asked her dad if she could have one of her mom’s figurines: a blue M&M playing a saxophone.

“That’s what started it,” she said in her M&M packed kitchen last week, dispaying several of her hundreds of souvenirs of the cartoon M&M candy characters.

Merry Christmas from all over

Posted Dec 12, 2011 @ 01:48 PM

Mary Jo Boots accepted her first nativity scene mostly as a favor.

“My friend Ethel Conner made one as a plaster cast, and gave it to me,” she said. “I painted it, and kept it.”

Thirty-five nativity scenes later, she and her husband Henry are still collecting them, from Argentina to Africa to Hawaii to Italy, to....

County museum gets updated sign, school

Posted Dec 08, 2011 @ 02:49 PM

Visitors out to the Redwood County Museum will notice two changes this week, one obvious, one subtle.

The obvious one is a new sign out by Highway 19W, replacing the one that has stood there for the past 28 years.

The other change is less noticeable, but more important in preserving a bit of the county’s legacy.

Audubon Marshall Christmas bird count set for December 17

Posted Dec 07, 2011 @ 02:31 PM

Counters are needed for the annual Marshall Audubon Christmas Bird Count which will take place on Saturday December 17.

This is the 112th count for the National Audubon Society and the 71st for the Marshall area.

Christmas lights recycling available

Posted Nov 28, 2011 @ 10:07 AM

The weekend following Thanksgiving is considered one of the most active times for people who opt to put up Christmas decorations each year.

With that reality in mind, many who sorted through all of the lights invariably found a few which are not working anymore and are ready to discard them.

Before that happens, the Recycling Association of Minnesota and the Redwood County Recycling program would like you to consider another option.

Nesburg learns inventing the device is the easy part

Posted Nov 23, 2011 @ 10:20 AM

Despite all the physical work of creating and fine-tuning his ice-melt spreader, Jim Nesburg said actually developing his invention was the easy part.

Learning to set up a new business has been even more of a challenge.

Morton's Home for the holidays

Posted Nov 16, 2011 @ 11:30 AM

Walk into John and Sandy Seehausens’ Morton home this week, and you’ll see evidence of their years living in Redwood Falls: a whole Christmas tree dedicated to cardinals.

The Seehausens are hosting this year’s Christmas house, open from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 19, as part of Morton’s Beneath the Village Wreath celebration.

BUSINESS PROFILE - Today's Fireplace and Spa

Posted Oct 24, 2011 @ 01:21 PM

A few years back Tadd Ihnen and a partner opened a fireplace business in Redwood Falls. After his partner opted for a different venture, Ihnen sold the local store to another individual continuing the operation of a similar store in Montevideo.

After the Redwood Falls location closed, Ihnen opted to get back into the community by again opening a store known as Today’s Fireplace and Spa.

“I saw Redwood Falls as a good area,” said Ihnen, who along with Marv Hinrichs, Don Reed and Shane Benton have opened the Bridge Street business in Redwood Falls. “I always felt this was a good community.”

Trees, shrubs need moisture

Posted Oct 13, 2011 @ 10:47 AM

After weeks without any significant rainfall, the area received some much needed moisture over this past weekend and in the first days of this week.

While the rainfall is appreciated by all, even farmers in the midst of harvest, the reality is the area is still dry.

According to the National Weather Service, the southwest region of Minnesota is at about 25 percent of what it would normally get for rainfall in the past 90 days.

FFA creates maze for public, plans Halloween event

Posted Oct 13, 2011 @ 10:33 AM

Driving along Cook Street near the RVMS/HS campus, one may have seen what looked like a huge weed patch in the middle of a perfectly good soybean field, and after the beans were harvested the weeds remained.

That patch of weeds in land just across the street to the north of the school is not weeds at all, and it is supposed to be there.

After discussing what kind of a project it would like to do as a group, the Redwood Valley FFA Chapter opted to move forward with a maze it would create on the site and then open it to the public.

Phil’s friends

Posted Sep 15, 2011 @ 11:01 AM

On Thurs., Sept. 8, Phil Martin noticed nine little black dots crawling toward him in the grass behind his house.

When he went to investigate, he found nine newly-hatched baby snapping turtles exploring his back yard.

City announces final clean-up schedule

Posted Jul 18, 2011 @ 12:31 PM

The initial clean-up of all Redwood Falls zones is nearing completion.

A final clean-up of each zone is going to be completed on the following schedule....

Be wary of ticks this time of year

Posted May 09, 2011 @ 11:14 AM

The number of Minnesotans who became ill from tick-borne diseases jumped to record levels in 2010, including a dramatic increase in human anaplasmosis, state health officials reported May 9.

Ditch redetermination hearing is March 22

Posted Mar 07, 2011 @ 01:52 PM

For the past year, work has been conducted by viewers in redetermining the benefits of four of Redwood County’s ditches – 11, 27, 34 and 56.

With that work now completed, the county auditor-treasurer’s office recently mailed out information to landowners regarding the proposed redetermined benefits on land in each of those systems.

WCA has flood damage funds

Posted Oct 07, 2010 @ 01:35 PM

Due to recent flooding many people in our area have furnaces in need of repair or have had furnaces destroyed.

Western Community Action (WCA) has received LIHEAP (low-income home energy assistance program) funds for qualified homeowners in need of emergency repair or replacement services for their furnace.

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