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Officers chosen

The Waseca Exchange Club elected its 2023-24 board of directors and officers at its meeting on Tuesday, June 27. Although there wasn’t an official vote count by the end of the meeting, the following members were written as volunteers and candidates: Sally Takala, President; Mikhail Rostislavovich...

Alexis Myers and Amy Nelson of Waseca 4-H publicizing a new “Power of Produce” program.

Program offers free produce

The Power of Produce (PoP) club, a new 4-H program meant to assure children have better access to fresh produce, shared information about a service it will provide beginning after the county fair and continuing until the farmers’ market stops operating sometime in the fall. According to Amy...

Library event centers around Taylor Swift

Swifities rejoiced as the Waseca Public Library put on a Taylor Swift party on Thursday, June 22. It was the perfect time to celebrate the music superstar, as Swift performed two concerts at the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis last Friday and Saturday night. Adding to the spectacle, Minneapolis...

ROYALTY — Top: Miss Elysian 2022 Royalty. From left: Macy Sluzacek, Princess of the Lakes Mia Sluzacek, and Meredith James. Back row: Mackenzie James, Abigail Osness, Junior Miss Elysian Payton Miller, Miss Elysian Desirae Domonoske, Miley Anderson, and Kyleigh Duffey.

Shining tiaras

The nearly week-long Elysian Fourth of July Celebration kicked off with Desirae Domonoske receiving the honor of becoming Miss Elysian 2023, with Kyleigh Duffey and Abigail Osness as her attendants. Payton Miller was crowned Junior Miss Elysian 2023 with Mackenzie James and Miley Anderson as her...

ON EDGE — A member of the Mankato Shriners organization takes things to a new level during the Elysian parade.

Elysian energy

Great food, good company, and celebrating the birth of the United States of America: Independence Day in a nutshell. A couple thousand people were in and out of Elysian to celebrate the city’s near week-long Fourth of July Celebration from June 29 to July 4. Kicking off the celebration was...

Cora Packard has offered classes, sunflower bouquets, and classes at Wild Spirit Farm Sanctuary since moving to the rural Waseca farm in 2018..

Sanctuary for all

“It’s been a dream come true for me here.” That is what Cora Packard said about being an owner of Wild Spirit Farm Sanctuary, a ten-acre farm about three miles west of Waseca. In four short years, the farm has come to house a few different goat breeds including pygmies and Nigerians, as well...

GRAND MARSHALLS - The 2022 Farm and City Days Grand Marshalls were the three oldest businesses in New Richland, Bonnerup Funeral Service, the State Bank of New Richland and the NRHEG Star Eagle. Representing those businesses at the New Richland Fire Department pancake breakfast are, from left: Bonnerup: Lori Tuchtenhagen, Larry Thorstad, Lanae Thorstad, Andrew Schwarz, Kasie Watkins, Tammy Busho and Amy Ihrke; SBNR, Matt Harrington, Kristi Harrington, and Star Eagle, Eli Lutgens. Farm and City Day’s is set for this weekend, July 7-9.

The big weekend is here

Farm & City Days, the annual celebration that seems to swell the population of the town by several hundred, runs Friday through Sunday, July 7-9. The parade is scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday, followed by a street dance from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Broadway. The weekend starts Friday as the...

EUROPE - Waseca High School art and Spanish students along with the chaperones stand in front of the palace in Madrid, Spain. Contributed photo

WHS Spanish, art students take trip to Spain, France

A group of 20 students and chaperones from Waseca has recently returned from a trip abroad, visiting Madrid, Barcelona, and Paris. These students, chaperones, and teachers spent ten days in Europe in June, arriving home June 23. The combination of Spanish and art students from Waseca High...

Little Rascals troop member Mandi Root

Little Rascals

About a couple hundred audience members enjoyed the Little Rascals of Waseca’s production of “The Adventures of Rose Red” this past Friday and Saturday, June 23-24 at the Waseca High School Performing Arts Center. The play, written by Sean Abley, was directed by Karen Pfarr Anderson with the...

TOGETHER AGAIN - Pen pals since the 1970s, Dawn Nelemans and Gert Schoeniger spent a few days together recently here in Waseca. Pictured with them is Christiane, Gert’s wife of more than 20 years.

Different but alike

In 1972, impulsive high school students in Crailsheim, Germany, and Worthington, Minnesota, raised their hands. Yes! They would love to have a pen pal from another country. Not just “another country,” either–from their respective “sister cities,” a connection of friendship and sharing between...