Youth wrestlers ‘pull-up’ to encourage other to join
Tri-City United School’s youth wrestling held a pull-up competition at the Titans’ home football game on Friday, Sept. 25 to promote the upcoming youth wrestling season, which begins Nov. 9.
Early access to “The Chosen”
The community is invited to watch an early-access viewing of “The Chosen” season six on Wednesday, Oct. 7 from 10-11:30 a.m. at St. John Lutheran Church in Montgomery.
TCU is closing the Le Center primary building
The Tri-City United Schools school board voted to close the primary building in Le Center at Monday’s regular board meeting, due to a failed boiler and no full need of the space.
Roundabout develops mysterious dip in Lonsdale
Social media posting on Facebook has been all abuzz the last couple weeks about the roundabout in Lonsdale at Highway 19 and Rice County 2, which was completed less than two months ago.
Vehicle crashes into Lonsdale store
Last Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 22, a regular customer of Lonsdale’s Dollar General store crashed into the entryway of the building.
Epilepsy fundraising goal achieved by Le Center preteen
Before he could even remember and being only about nine months old, Silas Vlasak of Le Center started having drop seizures.
O’Malley & Hartwig crowned homecoming royalty
Le Center’s Parker O’Malley and Kaitlyn Hartwig were crowned Tri-City United High School’s 2026 Homecoming king and queen Monday afternoon, Sept. 28 in the school’s performing arts center.
The Minnesota River Bulldog Hockey Team opened its season with a win and loss against North Branch and Dodge County.
The team opened its season on Friday, Nov. 23 against North Branch. The team lost 5-1.
Coach Shea Roehrkasse said he thought the team played well overall on the weekend, but just couldn’t get anything going offensively in their season opener.
“Against North Branch, we made a few too many mistakes in the neutral and defensive zone. North Branch did a good job of taking advantage of that,” he said.
Montgomery’s Torchlight Parade and Fireworks celebrates 26 years this holiday season. The Thursday, Nov. 29 event kicks off with a parade of approximately 50 lighted floats, beginning at 6:30 p.m. on the north end of First (Main) Street.
Parade participants this year include musical groups like the Schell’s Hobo Quartet, the Govenaires of St. Peter, Lakelander Chorus, Tri-City United High School Drum Line, the Klondike Kates of the St. Paul Winter Carnival, River City Rhythm percussionists and The Amazing Hoopsters.
Le Sueur County will be honored Monday, Dec. 3 during the Minnesota Counties Intergovernmental Trust (MCIT) Annual Meeting in Bloomington.
MCIT announced last week that Le Sueur County has been selected as the 2018 County of the Year.
"The county has distinguished itself in the areas of loss control, risk management, claims administration, and responsiveness to MCIT," MCIT Executive Director Robyn M. Sykes said. "MCIT commends the county's commitment to managing exposures that jeopardize employees and citizens of the county to loss."
Leadership changes are about to take place on the Lonsdale Fire Department.
Effective January 1, 2019, the city will have a new fire chief and assistant fire chief.
Lonsdale’s current fire chief, Mike Yetzer, has served three terms as fire chief, which is the maximum allowed per the department’s policy. Though he will no longer be fire chief, Yetzer will continue to serve on the department.
“We have a top shelf chief,” said Mayor Tim Rud of Yetzer.
Montgomery received its holiday dressing on Wednesday, Nov. 28, when workers from the City of Montgomery installed the holiday Czech banners and lighted decorations on First Street. The decorations made it up just in time for the Torchlight Parade and Fireworks on Thursday, Nov. 29. The parade starts at 6:30 p.m. (Wade Young Photo)
Small Business Saturday on November 24 looked like it was well-received by a lot of people. I haven’t seen First Street that packed on a Saturday in a long time. Cars lined the street, causing some to spill over into the side streets for the morning and majority of the afternoon.
It was good to see.
Watching the news reports about the Black Friday frenzy, I couldn’t help but feel sorry. I felt sorry for shoppers in the larger cities. I’m sure they are normally nice people, but that day transforms them into Black Friday crazies.
A group of kids are taking kindness to the next level when they organized a clothing drive for the residents of the poorest county in the United States.
Twenty students in Shaun Robbins’ seventh and eighth grade advisory class at TCU Montgomery Middle School organized and promoted a clothing drive over the past several weeks. Their efforts acquired 11 full boxes of warm clothes and blankets for the residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Le Sueur County has a furry, four-legged crime fighter.
The county’s newest K-9, “Jett”, started work on November 20.
The county secured Jett, a purebred German Shepherd, last autumn when he was around nine-weeks-old. Jett was bred locally from Kozie Shepherds in southern Minnesota and attended his K9 academy with Le Sueur County Deputy Joe Kern at Performance Kennels in Buffalo. Nationally Certified K9 Trainer, Steve Pearson, was responsible for training Jett.
Second graders, Ty Wohlers and Eydie Fleek don’t recall if they have ever seen the special float that starts the Torchlight Parade and Fireworks event, but they will see it firsthand on Thursday, Nov. 29.
Ty, son of George and Shanda Wohlers of rural Montgomery, and Eydie, daughter of Ann and Matthew Fleek of Montgomery, have been selected to be the Junior Grand Marshals of the 2018 holiday event.
Father Kevin Clinton, center, offers a blessing on several tractors the morning of Sunday, Nov. 18, at St. John the Evangelist Church of Union Hill. The brief ceremony was also to celebrate this time of blessings and thankfulness at the end of the harvest. For more see an upcoming print issue of The New Prague Times. (Patrick Fisher Photo)
A few changes could be in the works for the Dakota-Rice- Scott League baseball next summer as the Minnesota Baseball Association has changed its criteria for classification of teams.
Currently 12 of the 13 teams in the league are classified as Class C teams and one (Elko) is Class B. The association is implementing a points system to classify teams, based on population of the community, the number of players with collegiate and professional experience on their roster from outside the community, and success in the state tournament over the past five years.
A Czech cultural organization whose ambassadors have appeared in events throughout Minnesota and other states for close to two decades will come to an end next month.
Domaci Inc., and its groups, the Domaci Czech Folk Dancers and the Czech Heritage Junior Royalty, will hold its final performance and royalty ceremony on Sunday, Dec. 2. Directors Arnie and Deb Ziskovsky, the founders of Domaci Inc., have been leading and coordinating the ambassadors for 19 years, and they are ending it with their annual event, Hometown Holidays at the Park Ballroom in New Prague.
James Michael Parkos, 46, of Sauk Rapids, formerly of Lonsdale, passed away, November 13, 2018. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 20, at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Montgomery, with visitation two hours prior at church.
Jim was born on February 21, 1972, in Faribault, to Robert and Nancy (Rein) Parkos. He was a 1990 graduate of Montgomery-Lonsdale High School.
Jim was a heavy equipment repair mechanic. He enjoyed his Harley Motorcycle, Minnesota Vikings, eating chicken wings, tractors/farm equipment, and going to Pioneer Power.
Luella Elizabeth McGillen, 95, of Le Center passed away on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018, at the Benedictine Living Community of St. Peter. Visitation will be held on Monday, Nov. 19, 2018, from 8:30 until 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Le Center, with the Mass of Christian Burial to follow at 10 a.m. Father Christopher Shofner will be officiating. Interment will be at Calvary Cemetery in Le Center.
