Emmons News

The 22nd annual Big Island Rendezvous & Festival takes place Saturday and Sunday at Bancroft Bay Park.

Three people have filed for election to the Albert Lea school board. They are incumbents Bill Leland and Bill Villarreal and challenger Linda Laurie.

Several years ago someone asked me to check on a news report regarding a tornado in the south part of Freeborn County that took place sometime in the late 1920s.

Students from all over Freeborn County will get the chance this week to see elk, hog and dairy farms up close during the 17th Annual Third Grade Farm Tours.

Not long ago a local Tribune subscriber brought an obituary from the Minneapolis newspaper to the newsroom.

Hired for the position the third week of July, Roubinek grew up in Pine City, where last year he performed a superintendent internship with the Pine City Public Schools.

In a recent publication of the Albert Lea Tribune, the Salvation Army requested monetary assistance to purchase school supplies for students within Freeborn County supporting their - Tools for Schools" program.

The Glenville-Emmons football team took a 54-0 loss to Grand Meadow Friday night.

After the first year of statewide standardized tests in science, Albert Lea students are on par with the state average.

After last year's Glenville Days were dampened with rain, organizers are hopeful this year of a successful sunny weekend with activities for everyone to enjoy.

The District 1 American Legion All-Star team played Wednesday in Stewartville with the West winning 11-1. Ethan Weiss played on the team for Glenville-Emmons. Jake Reyent and Luke Forrester of New Richland were ...

The Freeborn County Red Cross Bloodmobile held a three-day drive June 18 to 20 and collected 238 units.

Three area American Legion baseball players have been selected to play in the District I, Division II American Legion East/West All-Star game on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Jake Reyant and Luke Forrester of New ...

From left are Meta Johnson, American Bank; Garry Hart, Cedar Valley Services; and Adrienne Thorson, American Bank.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 11:00 AM at St.

The third annual Corey Goodnature Memorial Golf Tournament will be held Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at Green Lea Golf Course.

I truly was saddened by the news of the death of NBC newsman and "Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert.

Rachel Holcomb, 6, and Patrick Holcomb, 3, bundle up with a Superman blanket on the hood of a car Friday before "Hairspray" began at the drive-in movie event.

When the new Glenville-Emmons Elementary School playground equipment was opened, students rushed to the structures excited to climb all over the satellite climber, seen here.

Brett Budach, an eighth-grader from California Trail Junior High School in Olathe, Kan., was chosen as one of the state finalists in Google's nationwide Doodle 4 Google competition.