Cannon Falls News

Looking for a way to cap a full day of Fourth of July festivities and fun? Head to Silver Lake Park on Friday.

This text is replaced by the Flash movie. Forget corn and beans. Combines at the Cannon Valley Fair in Cannon Falls, Minn., were put to use harvesting fun during a demolition derby Wednesday night.

A Cannon Falls Subway restaurant suffered heavy damage after a semi-trailer smashed through the storefront late Sunday night.

Student performance on Minnesota's standardized tests generally got better this year, but the list of struggling public schools will get worse.

It's a "practice" fair for 4-Hers, and a tradition in this small town. The Cannon Valley Fair, which officially opens Tuesday and continues through July 5 at the fairgrounds in Cannon Falls, draws thousands of ...

TWENTY YEARS AGO, MIKE NOBLE'S spread was everything a modern farm is supposed to be: flush with fertilizers, high-yielding hybrid seeds, and hogs confined like shoes in a box, the better to fatten the beasts ...

When: 11 a.m.- 7 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Fri.-Sat., noon-6 p.m. Sun. How much: Tasting up to three wines is free.

The rivers are on the rise and a no travel advisory has been issued in Mower County.

With the Dakota nation's rich history in mind, Waziyatawin takes on prestigious research chair position at University of Victoria TOM HAWTHORN Special to The Globe and Mail; tomhawthorn@gmail.com June 11, 2008 ...

A longtime proposal to build a public recreation trail between Hastings and Red Wing is back on the drawing board at a time when trails are enjoying a burst of renewed popularity in Minnesota.

Nature Valley Grand Prix - Preview Back for 2008 5 days and 6 stages of Professional Racing at the Great River Energy Bicycle Festival in "Cycling Crazy" Minnesota Nature Valley Grand Prix Stages: Stage 1 June ...

A family moving into their new home in southeastern Minnesota was greeted by a live grenade.

For the first time in its history, the women's field at Minnesota's Nature Valley Grand Prix, part of the Great River Energy Bicycle Festival, has filled and registration has been closed early.

Eric Bieniek tossed a one-hitter as Lourdes moved into the championship baseball game in Section One, Class AA with a shutout over Cannon Falls.

A 12-week program guaranteed to increase power, speed, strength and maximize athletic potential sounds too good to be true, but Scott Safe is making this a reality for many local athletes.

Controversy clouded the finish of the second semifinal game Saturday at Mayo Field, as Winona Cotter rallied for single runs in the seventh and eighth to edge Cannon Falls.

On this Memorial Day, there are still 88,000 Americans missing in action from World War II through the First Gulf War. While the U.S. military sends investigators across the world to excavate sites every year, there simply more people and aircraft than they can handle. Sometimes, they rely on volunteers groups to locate crash sites or burial locations for the first time.

MIA Hunters, a non-profit, volunteer group based out of Cannon Falls, has completed 23 missions to locate, recover and return lost World War II American airmen and bring them back for burial in the U.S.

At the age of 80, Bryan Moon spent two weeks earlier this month tramping through the steaming jungles of Papua-New Guinea.

A Cannon Falls, Minn. man who travels the world looking for the remains of U.S. troops still missing in action has found another 21 dog tags.

Eighty-year-old Bryan Moon spent two weeks earlier this month in the jungles of Papua-New Guinea. It was his sixth trip the South Pacific Island.

While there, he says bought 21 dog tags from American servicemen from local villagers. He doesn't know if they were left behind or are from missing troops.

The tags have been turned over to the U.S. Army Recovery Unit in Hawaii for further investigation.

As the demand for oil increases so do gas prices. The sticker shock at the pump is starting to force many drivers into life-style changes.