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Conagra re-use system returns nutrients to fields

As many millions of pounds of corn are processed at the Conagra plant near Waseca, millions of gallons of fluid are collected and distributed across fields. The fluids, known as “silage leachate” comes from the silage (cobs and husk byproducts) which are harvested along with the sweet corn...

Local Waseca Veterans present the flag following a demonstration of the traditional flag folding ceremony. Below, Jeremiah Miller.

WHS Honors Veterans

Waseca Junior and Senior High School hosted guest speaker Jeremiah Miller as it honored individuals from all branches of the military during its annual Veterans Day program in the high school gymnasium Friday morning, Nov. 10, 2023. “Do not take their bravery for granted,” Waseca principal...

Author Patty Wetterling signs a copy of the book she authored, “Dear Jacob” at the Waseca Public Library. With her is book co-author Joy Baker.

Talk by “Dear Jacob” author Patty Wetterling draws more than 200

From 1989 to 2016, it was probably Minnesota’s most famous “unsolved mystery”: Where was Jacob Wetterling? Kidnapped from an otherwise quiet neighborhood in St. Joseph on October 22, 1989, the 11-year-old’s fate was unknown until the research and writing of Minnesota blogger Joy Baker reopened...

Recipients of grants awarded during the Waseca Area Foundation’s annual awards program Nov. 8 at Waseca’s Central Building.

WAF awards ceremony

The Waseca Area Foundation/EF Johnson Foundation (WAF) held its annual fall grant awards program at the Central Building in Waseca on Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 8. What started as a “$6,000 pipe dream” in the 80s with a first grant of $600 has now allowed the organization to distribute well over...

Sft. Cade Wolfe

Five U.S. soldiers killed in crash

A 24-year-old Mankato native with ties to Waseca County was among the five U.S. soldiers who died in a helicopter crash during a training exercise in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, November 10. Sgt. Cade Wolfe, son of Waseca County Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Wolfe, was a 2018 Mankato East High...

Veterans open cards hand prepared by elementary students at NRHEG.

Honored, celebrated

NRHEG students in grades 3 through 12 attended a program honoring veterans in the secondary school gym on Friday, Nov. 10. Twenty or more members of area veterans’ organizations attended as a group; prior to the start of the program, they were presented with thank you cards handmade by elementary...

One of the speakers at JWP’s high school Veterans Day program Nov. 10, 2023

JWP observes Veterans Day

Every year, during Veterans Day, we honor those who served our country in the military by thanking them for their service and showing them our gratitude. Although Veterans Day fell on a Saturday this year, Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton High School still took the time to provide a breakfast and a...

Todd Schmidt is the owner of Waseca’s Boxcar Bar, which will host the annual Santa Anonymous Auction Nov. 25.

Santa Anonymous Auction Nov. 25

There will be very few white beards visible on the Saturday after Thanksgiving at the Boxcar Bar in Waseca beginning at 5:00 p.m. Santa, however, will be everywhere. “It’s a great time,” declares organizer Todd Schmidt. “People tell me they wait for it all year.” Items and services donated by...

Imposter police officer suspected in Waseca

During the last weekend of October, a Waseca resident reported encountering an individual who sent the impression of being a member of the Waseca Police Department, but whose apparent attempts at impersonating an officer did not hold up under scrutiny. Captain Kris Markeson summarized that the...

The Waseca Chorale

Rich sounds ringing

Back in September, the rich sounds of Christmas began ringing from Grace Lutheran Church. “It’s something not everybody does,” laughs Chorale president Al Judd. “So, yes, it was kind of odd to have Christmas songs in the back of our minds then. But it was a fun opportunity. I liked it.” The...