COURTLAND —The Courtland City Council on Thursday worked on how to solve water drainage issues on Wishbone Way and Stony Point. Residents, Tom Suess and John Stadick, were present last month and at this month’s meeting to express their concerns about water not draining off their properties ...

BLUE EARTH COUNTY — Blue Earth County deputies, Mayo Ambulance and Eagle Lake Fire Dept. personnel were dispatched to the County Road 12 roundabout at Highway 14 for a crash with injuries reported at 3:50 p.m. Tuesday. Hundreds of gallons of diluted calcium chloride (commonly used as a dust ...

NEW ULM — Brown County commissioners unanimously approved a low bid to repair broken tile in County Ditch 16, Branch 3 in Bashaw and Burnstown townships Tuesday. Approval of a $66,945 bid with 24-inch plastic tile from Lohrenz Excavating came on a motion by Commissioner Brian Braun, seconded ...

SLEEPY EYE — Minnesota Department of Agriculture Commissioner Thom Petersen and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Commissioner Katrina Kessler talked about the Farm Bill and agricultural issues over pizza and beer at Sleepy Eye Brewing Co. Tuesday. Several dozen farmers attended the ...

NEW ULM — Three 3rd-degree felony criminal sex charges filed against a former Sleepy Eye pastor accused of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a teenage girl in 2019 and 2020, were dismissed earlier this spring in Brown County District Court. Former Trinity Lutheran Church ...

REDWOOD COUNTY — A 25-year-old Wheaton woman died in a two-vehicle crash reported at 12:35 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Highway 68 and Redwood County Road 6 near Wabasso. Morgan Lee Grunewald of Wheaton died in the crash, driving a 2016 Ford F150 northbound on County Road 6 that ...