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Shelby Kaiser (left) and Alyssa Barbknecht serve coffee to visitors at the Waseca farmers’ market the morning of Saturday, June 21.
MN Mornings Coffee serves Waseca every weekend
Waseca county residents Alyssa Barbknecht and Shelby Kaiser joked with each other about owning a coffee shop for about a year before they realized... Continue Reading
Lifelong Elysian resident Pat Nusbaum has been helping plan and carry out the city's annual five-day Fourth of July celebration for 41 years.
Perhaps the best way to sum up Pat Nusbaum’s connection with the Elysian Fourth of July event is to say “One thing led to another.”
After 41... Continue Reading
Thanks to numerous projects around the city, drivers will be seeing a number of "road closed" signs as summer progresses.
With summer now in full swing, construction season has returned to Waseca.
City Engineer Nate Willey said there is a lot of work underway in... Continue Reading
Missy Donner, artist Chad Holliday, Waseca Art Council President Mikhail Rostislavovich and artist Carla Hanson-Melander greeted visitors at the Waseca Art Gallery's latest opening on Thursday, June 19, 2025.
The most recent displays at the Waseca Art Gallery were celebrated on Thursday, June 19. Carla Hanson-Melander, painter/designer/sculptor and Chad... Continue Reading
Sarah Kay Hoffman, left, and Makayla Selvik, right, have owned Refinery 507 and Thyme on Main for four years now.
“When we first bought this building, the intention was never to run a restaurant,” Sarah Kay Hoffman, co-owner of Refinery 507 and Thyme on Main,... Continue Reading
Waseca high school one act play performers bottom row, from left: Allen Kopetzki, Cody Sieberg, Katelyn Robeck, Kylie Snow, Chelsea Richardson, and Thyme Lang. Middle: Sadie Schimming, Branden Busse, Sophie Farris, Lindsey Kopetzki, and Quinn Dahle. Back: Ava Norland, Arianna Krogseng, Nathaniel Andrs, Mason Wadd, and Cejay Pickett.
Subsection meet Jan. 28 in Medford
Has anyone ever wondered how to get out of roll call, give a presentation in French class without knowing French, party like it’s 1999 at graduation, or find a way for Tom Cruise to help remember how DNA works? Probably not. But those were among many questions answered in Waseca Theater... Continue Reading
Sports
Pictured left to right, top row - Biz Janike (Head Coach), Avery Roessler, Crosby Hinna, Grady McDonough, Braxton Nelson, Ashton Kahnke, Colton Madson, Chad McDonough (Assistant Coach). Bottom row, left to right, Brayden Butler, Jaegar Anderson, Zander Rahe, Corbin Ristau, Jackson Janike, Keegan Villwock, Carter Wernimont, Bryan De Jager. Not pictured- Holten Howard.Over the weekend of June 6-8th , the Waseca Bluejays 14U baseball team won first place in the HammerFest tournament held in Albert Lea which punched their ticket to the State Tournament taking place July 25-27 in Brooklyn Park.
The 14U Jays came back from a rough start to the tournament being outscored by their first two opponents, Albert Lea and Austin 18-1 on Friday evening and Saturday morning. On Saturday evening of the tournament weekend, the boys started to rally their bats, scoring 9 in the first inning, adding... Continue Reading
The Waseca Braves snapped a losing skid by defating the Minnesota Lake Royals 6-2 Sunday at Tink Larson Field in Waseca.
"It was nice to get back in the win column," said Braves coach Tink Larson.
Tyson Reger registered his fifth straight complete-game pitching win, all with at least... Continue Reading
Members of the JWP girls’ track and field team pose with the Class A state championship trophy they claimed at St. Michael-Albertville High School last Wednesday. Front from left: Makaela Westphal and Ashlynn wolff. Back: Katie Olson, Nevaeh Weimert, Onikia Herme, Brielle Bure and Lilly Strauss.
The storybook 2025 season had one final chapter for the Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton High School girls' track and field team: the state meet.
The Bulldogs, with Gopher Conference, sub-section and section championships already under their belts - along with an appearance in the True Team state... Continue Reading
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