Yearly Archives: 2014
‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’ weekend shows
Reminder: Mountain Lake Public High School Drama Department's presentation of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" will be held this evening, at 8 p.m., in...
City of Mountain Lake alert concerning street plowing
Plows will be out in the City of Mountain Lake after midnight tonight. All vehicles must remain OFF the streets until they are plowed...
UPB Insurance promoting Fairground Facelift grant
United Prairie Insurance of Mountain Lake and Windom encourages local community members to enter the Fairground Facelift grant contest sponsored by Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance...
Two Wolverine boys in Tim Orth Foundation Jamboree basketball game
Seniors Andrew Hempeck and Cody Klassen members of winning Red Rock team
Sixty basketball players from the Red Rock Conference and the Tomahwak Conference participated...
Kids Art with Miss Art
Coaxing creativity from kids at Mountain Lake Public Library event
"Miss Art" (a.k.a. former Mountain Lake Public School art teacher Nancy Nelson) spent Wednesday afternoon,...
Getting the Pontipee brothers hitched
MLHS Drama Department to present musical 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'
It is not easy getting the Pontipee brothers hitched, but the Mountain Lake Public...
Power outages real; no April Fool’s joke
The City of Mountain Lake experienced power outages today, Tuesday, April 1. Power has been temporarily restored. Due to the outages, permanent repairs will be...
No April Fool’s Day foolin’ . . .
MLHS Student Council-sponsored Bloodmobile is a pints-filled success.
The Mountain Lake Public High School (MLHS) Student Council-sponsored visit by the American Red Cross Bloodmobile on...
MLPS School Board moves forward on Monsanto grant opportunity
List of volunteer coaches approved
The Mountain Lake Public School (MLPS) School Board made the decision at their Monday, March 24 meeting to move forward...
Joanne Wolle
Funeral services for 67-year-old Joanne (Gotto) Wolle of St. James, Minnesota, will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday afternoon, April 4 in the...
Covered with wanderlust dust . . .
CD Johnson ends up in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
"Mountain Lake is an amazing town in which to live - and I would be comfortable in it...
MLHS teens tout talents
Student Talent Show for grades 7-12 held this past Friday
Mountain Lake Public High School (MLHS) students in grades 7-12 participated in a Student Talent...
‘Music In Our Schools Month’ unites two Minnesota schools
MLHS Haydn-to-Hip Hop class visits St. Paul's HSRA
In celebration of March as "Music In Our Schools Month," Mountain Lake Public High School's (MLHS) music...
Cobra Nation holds season-end banquet
Variety of individual awards presented
The Windom/Mountain Lake Cobra Nation wrestling team held its season-end banquet for grades 7-12 on Thursday evening, March 27, in...
MLOOSC posts March 24-28 calendar winners
The Mountain Lake/Odin/Ormsby Sportsman's Club (MLOOSC) recently posted the Monday, March 24 through Friday March 28 Gun Calendar winners.
They were as follows:
3/24/14 - Jeremy...
Minnesota farm income on decline
Information released in annual U of M Extension/MnSCU report
Many people in the Cross-Counties Connect area already knew this - but a recently released annual...
‘Our State Fair is a great State Fair’
MLES 4th graders tout their own version
Exhibits to see, lots to learn, people watching to do - and all kinds of food-on-a-stick. That's what...
Florence Baarson
A Celebration of Life service for 85-year-old Florence Baarson, of Odin, Minnesota will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, April 2, 2014 at...
Orrin “Dully” Holmen
Funeral services for Orrin "Dully" Holmen, 94, of Windom, Minnesota will be held tomorrow morning (Saturday, March 29), at 11 a.m., at the American...
Food + forest = community resilience
Tree Commission to utilize grant to focus on project
The Mountain Lake Tree Commission hosted a meeting on the Lawcon Park Food Forest Project on...