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STAFF- Most of the Pioneer staff is pictured above. From left, Jonah Stafford, Amelia Roessler, Deb Bently, Jim Lutgens, Eli Lutgens, Logan Piltingsrud, whose photos have been featured in the Star Eagle, held by Melanie Piltingsrud, Michael Roy, Chris Schlaak, and Reed Waller. Pioneer photo by Pam Goehrig
“We plan to find at least one story for every edition that makes the whole year’s subscription worthwhile. We know we won’t have everything for everybody in every edition, but we will definitely have something for everyone.” –Eli Lutgens, publisher
This issue of the Waseca County Pioneer is the...
Aliyah Taylor, 17, signed her letter of intent on Nov. 20, 2024 to play Women's Volleyball for Bethany Lutheran College for the fall of 2025.
Aliyah Taylor, 17, and a senior at Waseca Junior Senior High School, took a monumental step in her athletic and academic career on Wednesday, Nov. 20, as she signed her letter of intent to play volleyball for Bethany Lutheran College. With classmates, family, and coaches gathered to celebrate,...
Janesville’s Madti Johnson, 26, is the owner of a new junk removal business, “Paradise Lakes Junk Removal.” Pioneer photo by Jessica Lutgens
When Madti Johnson, Janesville resident and former Patient Care Assistant, found herself moving out of her home at the same time as her then-client, the process of clearing out two living spaces proved to be quite a task - most of which consisted of collecting multiple loads of unwanted items and...
Members of the crew which helped put on the Murder Mystery at the Alexander home this past weekend.
With a flair for the original, brothers Mikhail Rostislavovich and Dwight Tostenson opened up their home, the Alexander House of Waseca, on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 15 and 16 for a murder mystery fundraiser that already has people speculating about a repeat performance sometime in the future....
Speakers and moderators for the “State of the County” event were, from left, Brian Harguth, Randy Zimmerman, Brad Milbrath, Jay Dulas, DeAnn Malterer, Stacy Schroeder, Michael Johnson, Sarah Berry, Mikhail Rostislavovich, Chris Hinton, Jamie Beckstrand, Dwight Tostenson and Ann Fitch. Pioneer photo by Deb Bently
About 50 people attended a “State of the County” session sponsored by the Waseca Area Chamber of Commerce (WACC) political committee at the Waseca Junior Senior High School performing arts center the evening of Tuesday, Nov.12.
Representing county leadership for the evening were commissioners...
The Waseca Area Foundation celebrated their 35th Anniversary earlier this month during their annual fall grand awards program. Above from left: Bruce Boyce, WAF Board Member Penny Vought, Ed Frederick, Amy Potter, Ann Fitch, WAF Board Member Molly Erdman, Janesville Area Foundation President Sam Steffel.
The Waseca Area Foundation/EF Johnson Foundation held its thirty-fifth annual fall grant awards program at the Armstrong Center in Waseca the afternoon of Thursday, Nov. 7.
According to information published in the evening’s program, what started as a “$6,000 pipe dream” in the 80s with a...
From left: Noah Beck from Rushmore Music Camp, Deb Wantoch Yess and Lindsey Kopetzki, Waseca local and SDSU Concert Choir member performed at Sacred Heart Church Monday, Oct. 28.
The South Dakota State University Concert Choir under the direction of Dr. Laura Diddle made Waseca’s Sacred Heart Church the second venue on the group’s fall tour, performing the evening of Monday, Oct. 28. Also part of the tour were three other community concert stops and six high schools.
Dr...
Church members Levi and Mandi Root helped at the dessert table. Pioneer photo by Deb Bently
“I like lutefisk,” stated Orlyn Reindel, 86, of Elysian. “I always take two or three servings.”
Reindel and his wife Sarah were among the 300 or so people who dined at the annual lutefisk dinner served at North Waseca Lutheran Church the evening of Sunday, Nov. 17.
Diners were served in three...
This corner marker located within a tree-covered area of Waseca County’s Courthouse Park is far more elaborate and specific than the stakes or “plugs” usually used by modern surveyors to mark section and quarter corners.
“Surveys in Waseca County are more expensive than any other area we work in,” observes Steve Thompson of Jones, Haugh and Smith Engineering out of Owatonna.
The problem, he explains, is “the uncertainty of the location of the corners that are needed.”
Thompson, a surveyor with 37 years of...
Sue McIntosh, program director, outside Waseca's Bethlehem Inn, a homeless shelter for women and children.Pioneer photo by Deb Bently
Bethlehem Inn, a homelessness shelter for women and children located in Waseca, has been in operation since 2019, after Father Lief of Sacred Heart Church and two community members had a conversation about how the parish’s convent building could be repurposed. Located across the street from the...
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