Altura News

In the recent heat, Eric Kreidermacher could feel his big greenhouse getting warmer and warmer in next winter's cold.

Nearly all the 24 Malt-O-Meal bins were empty, refrigerated dairy cases had but a few gallons of milk, and many shelves of Wiens Food Center were bare Friday.

A morel mushroom's distinctive shape makes it easy to identify. After three springs of foraging for morel mushrooms, all I had to show for my haul were several nasty ticks.

2 Lewiston-Altura defeated No. 7 Spring Grove 10-0 in five innings in Section 1A East play.

Firefighters used 2.6 million gallons of water -- up to 3,000 gallons per minute -- to fight the April 17 fire at North Star Foods in St.

Authorities evacuated this southeastern Minnesota town of about 3,600 Friday afternoon as a large fire at a meat processing plant threatened the anhydrous ammonia tanks inside.

Winona County soon could become a pioneer in the energy business by running its own two-turbine wind farm.

* Cyril Pyfferoen had two hits and two RBIs as Lewiston-Altura downed St. Charles 4-0. Ben Buehler plitched a complete game for the Cardinals, striking out nine and allowing four hits and one walk.

3 Caledonia nipped No. 6 Lewiston-Altura 51-48 in 1AA East subsection quarterfinal play.

Triton School District hopes to build a $4.1 million addition to its middle school.

Melvin "Junior" Edelbach has been a logger for more than 40 years, and he wears safety equipment, approaches each tree cautiously and makes sure he has two escape routes in case the maple, oak or walnut falls ...

The Lewiston-Altura school district may have solved its need for more space after the school board agreed Tuesday to buy a building and Herff Jones offered to donate one.

Winona County Sheriff Dave Brand revised statements he made Friday about a logger injured near Altura, Minn.

A 61-year-old logger spent about six hours trapped under a tree before being rescued at about 5 p.m. Friday, according to Winona County Sheriff Dave Brand.

The Lewiston-Altura school board narrowed its options Monday for possible building expansions in the district.

An Altura, Minn., said a "hot girl" told him to run from officers early Thursday as they tried to break up a fight outside a downtown Winona bar, police reported.

Minnesota's schools are now graded slightly differently. The Minnesota Department of Education has added a growth model to report cards the state annually prepares for public schools.