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Waseca Chamber welcomes Kelm's BBQ
The Waseca Area Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Ambassadors recently welcomed new member Kelm’s BBQ, owned and operated by Kevin and Amy Kelm. Kelm’s BBQ is a locally owned food truck serving up delicious, slow-smoked barbecue and offering catering services for events of all sizes. From community gatherings to private celebrations, Kevin and Amy are passionate about bringing quality BBQ and friendly service to the Waseca area and beyond.
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D'Amico & Sons will close its last 2 Minnesota restaurants
There are just two D'Amico & Sons restaurants left in Minnesota. By the end of March, there will be none. The restaurants in Edina and Golden Valley will close their doors when the leases end on March 28. It'll conclude roughly 30 years of business in the state, as co-owners Richard and Larry D'Amico refocus their energy on the company's three restaurants in Naples, Fla.: Campiello, The Club Room at Campiello, and The Continental.
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Waseca Art Center celebrates growth, adds new board members
At a brief annual meeting on Saturday before its latest gallery opening, the Waseca Art Center celebrated a year of “exponential” programming growth and added two new members to an already energetic Board of Directors. Art Center President Mikhail Rostislavovich hailed Director of Education and Programming Christy Easton, Executive Administrator Brad Donner and the Board of Directors, for going above and beyond to help to establish Waseca’s small Art Center as a regional leader. Aided by grant funding as well as a strong member base, the Art Center was able to significantly expand its class offerings in 2026, offering something for everyone but with a particularly strong focus on serving those with special needs, including those enrolled in the ICAN program. In her presentation to a small group of members assembled in the Kent and Diane Schultz Auditorium upstairs, Easton said that classes are now drawing teachers from Faribault, the Albert Lea, even the Twin Cities — now, the challenge is figuring out when to schedule them. “It’s all schedule dependent, so I think ironically they’ll be able to be teach in the summer when no one will be here to take the classes,” Easton joked. As the number of
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Minnesota D'Amico & Sons closing next month
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D'Amico & Sons closing last 2 Minnesota restaurants
EDINA, Minn. (FOX 9) - D’Amico & Sons is set to close its Edina and Golden Valley locations, marking the end of an era for the beloved Italian café chain in Minnesota. The restaurants, which are the final two in Minnesota, will close at the end of March after roughly 30 years in business.
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Waseca Art Center welcomes new featured artists
For its February exhibit, the Waseca Art Center is featuring two artists who have embraced versatile and yet vastly different means of depicting scenes often rooted in everyday life — one abstract and modernist, another more concrete and traditional. In the Beckmann Gallery, visitors can now check out the powerful, vivid and often surreal photography of Minneapolis-based artist Lauren Jacobson, who discovered a passion for long-exposure photography as a teenager and has turned it into an art form. The Harguth Gallery meanwhile features the works of Mark Braun, a Mankato-based illustrator who began his career as an illustrator in the advertising department of Kato Engineering all the way back in the 1970s and has been honing his skills ever since. Like many featured artists down at the Art Center, both Jacobson and Braun fully embraced art as both a hobby and a career. In “retirement,” Braun has produced hundreds of evocative illustrations, while art is at the center of Jacobson’s job as a Design Consultant and Art Framer. Using a single tactile flashlight as a primary light source, her body as a subject and carefully chosen backgrounds often found in her own home as well as tightly choreographed movement, Jacobson