Lonsdale Area News-Review
Seasoned karate teacher brings classes to Legion
Outside of Japan, the highest-ranking member of the karate style, known as Okinawan Shorin Ryu Mukenkai, is passing his knowledge to a new generation, right in the small town of Lonsdale. During his 18 years of study in Japan, Tim Jerges trained under the head member of the karate style, which he said is one of karate’s original forms. He offers two weekly classes for a small monthly fee in the American Legion Post 586. ...
Graduation rates stable statewide; TCU drops
Figures released by the Minnesota Department of Education last week show that the four-year graduation rate remained stable last year, with more than 60,000 Minnesota students earning a high school diploma as part of the class of 2023. In total 83.3% of Minnesota students graduated in four years last year, with 58,293 students earning their diploma on time. An additional 3,874 students from earlier classes were able to graduate five, six or seven years after beginning High School. ...
Minnesota Millwork announces $8 million expansion, contingent on state funds
Nineteen new jobs with pay ranging from $22.81 an hour all the way up to $45.67 could come to Lonsdale. The jobs would come alongside a two-year expansion of Minnesota Millwork & Fixtures, given things go smoothly with the joint grant application submitted by the Lonsdale City Council after receiving approval at Thursday night’s meeting. The project includes $8.3 million of construction and equipment and more than 50,000 square feet of new space for the company. ...
Storm spotters play crucial role in severe weather
A radar can only see so much. As National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen Warning Coordinator and Meteorologist Todd Krause explained, it takes reliable and alert storm spotters to know what’s really going on. Krause was speaking during a storm-spotter training for Rice County Skywarn Thursday night at Buckham West Library in Faribault. “We’re looking at...
Lonsdale man arrested twice in three days in Faribault
A Lonsdale man allegedly assaulted a woman he knows in Faribault, damaged her residence, ran from police. Upon his release from jail he allegedly violated a restraining order and resisted arrest. Joshua Nathaniel Helzer Stolte, 23, was first arrested Tuesday afternoon. A woman told Faribault police officers Stolte repeatedly hit her in the head with a pillow, pinched her arms and legs, pulled her hair and blocked her from leaving the room. The woman had bruises on her arms and legs that she said were...
Subdued winter contributed to statewide rise in traffic fatalities, but none to date in Rice County
Even with roads lacking regular coatings of ice and snow this unusually warm and snowless winter, traffic fatalities paradoxically increased across Minnesota roadways. As of March 25, 68 people had lost their lives on Minnesota roads, compared to just 43 at this time last year. The Department of Public Safety attributed the spike to drivers lulled into a sense of complacency by the lack of inclement weather. With the roads...
TCU track and field opens season at MNSU in Mankato
The Tri-City United track and field team began its 2024 campaign Saturday night on the indoor track at Minnesota State University — Mankato. With several first-place finishes and solid performances all around, the Titan girls finished second while the boys team finished fourth. In the 55 meter dash, Lexi Marcussen finished second with a time of 8:12 before Kaitlyn Hartwig earned first in the 200m dash with a time of 29.27. Defending MSHSL state champion Carly Hartwig finished first in the 400m dash with a...
Tri-Fest 2024 shows off high-value production at TCU
From the '90s grunge of Blink-182 to the nightclub jazz of the '60s, Tri-Fest 2024 brings the beats back and the confidence out for students at Tri-City United High School this weekend. The three-show production features high schoolers who perform many songs ranging from the 1950s to modern pop music, giving students the chance to take center-stage, play a supporting role in the background, direct the crew and sometimes all three. ...
Discussion begins for stricter tobacco ordinance in Rice County
Banning flavored vapes and menthol cigarettes sales are among the proposed updates to Rice County’s two-decade-old tobacco ordinance. But the tangible impact it would have is minimal. Tuesday’s Rice County Board of Commissioners work session began with a 45-minute discussion about a number of updates to the county’s current tobacco ordinance, which was enacted in 1998. While the proposals excited at least three local health advocates who spoke at the meeting, it’s not likely to have much effect unless the municipalities follow suit. ...
How We Die: End of life advocacy groups share their message locally
SEE FOR YOURSELF Advance care planning open houses to help people start, revise or complete their Minnesota advance Directives grew out of earlier efforts as Northfield Advance Care Planning Advisory Council (NACPAC). The next event is Thursday, March 21 from 6:15-7:45 p.m. at the Northfield Public Library. 98cebabb-8d24-4b76-9fb9-51668b9cd856 For Dundas resident Julianne Donaldson, thinking about the most compassionate way for a human life to end was not the way her husband Don died. ...
Several new amenities in works for Lonsdale, but cost worries some
A new nine-hole disc-golf course, a new library and maybe even permanent pickleball courts are all being discussed by Lonsdale city officials. The projects are expected to be complete as early as this summer. However, preliminary cost estimates already have at least a few members of the Lonsdale City Council worried about the pickleball. Still, councilors voted to move forward with getting a more concrete quote. Before getting into the...
Titans end season with road loss to Glencoe-Silver Lake in Section playoffs
Tuesday night, the Tri-City United boys basketball team saw its season come to a close with a 75-56 road loss to No. 3 seeded Glencoe Silver Lake. A slow start doomed the Titans as the Panthers held a 46-20 edge at halftime that allowed them to hold on for the victory. “Our guys played really hard, but GSL is a good team. They have lots of good players who can handle the basketball and defend hard up and down the floor,” said head coach John...
County parks, facilities director moving up, moving out
Less than a decade passed from the time Matt Verdick was mopping floors and doing maintenance as a custodian for Rochester Public Schools to helping manage the largest capital project in Rice County history. For about the last four years, Verdick has served as the county’s parks and facilities director. His last day in the position is March 15. He’s taking a new job as deputy administrator in Mower County, overseeing several departments. ...
Lonsdale Republicans stand with Trump; Democrats less so with Biden
President Donald Trump again proved to have the overwhelming support of Lonsdale and its surrounding communities Super Tuesday. Minnesota recently switched back to a caucus-primary-hybrid model, wherein caucuses still exist for local party appointments and resolutions and primaries serve to narrow down the candidates running for congress, the presidency and other major races. Tuesday was the sixth time in Minnesota history and the second time this century that presidential delegates have been chosen via a primary. ...
State Supreme Court rules on Rice County case over drugs found after wrongful arrest
The Minnesota Supreme Court reinstated the dismissal of drug charges filed against a Faribault woman after she was mistakenly arrested on a no-longer-active warrant. The top state court’s ruling reverses a Minnesota Court of Appeals ruling exactly one year prior and came almost exactly three years after the disputed arrest and search. At issue is whether the search that found drugs on Rebecca Julie Malecha was unconstitutional, and if it...
Supreme Court accepts but stays review of case against Rice County
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to review a case against Rice County’s election administrator. But justices stayed review pending the outcome of another case. Attorney Matt Benda and Rice County resident Kathleen Hagen are appealing dismissal of their lawsuit against Rice County Property Tax and Elections Director Denise Anderson. The lawsuit claimed the county didn’t fulfill their public records requests and sought to ban the county from using modems to send unofficial election results to the county elections office and then to the...
Titans finish season as Section 2AA North Subsection semifinalists
A hot start and consistent offensive performance put the Tri-City United girls basketball team in a position to upset top seeded Glencoe-Silver Lake Monday night in the Section 2AA North Subsection Championship game. However, the veteran laden Panther squad maintained their composure no matter the deficit and after trailing for over 32 minutes, managed to take the lead and pull off the 64-59 victory over the Titans, bringing TCU’s impressive season to a close. “It was really fun to see because that hasn’t been something...
Skluzacek earns a podium finish at state with 5th place tournament run
Freshman Tri-City United wrestler Tucker Skluzacek traveled to the state capital last weekend to represent the Titans in the MSHSL Individual State Championships. Despite making his first appearance on the biggest state in Minnesota Wrestling, Skluzacek never shied away from the bright lights, earning fifth place and a podium finish as an all-state wrestler. “We got here Thursday morning pretty early and we wanted to come down here and check things out. So we came down in the tunnel and started walking around, and he’s...
Jan, of Jan's Thrift Shop, loved her community
Aside from her own, there has only ever been one home that Susan Hacker can walk in at any time of day without calling ahead of time: that was the home of Jan and Mark Hansen. She drove in disbelief to the Hansen home last Monday, after she was notified by phone that Jan died the night before following some health complications. The house was empty. Jan had died at age 73. ...
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