Heron Lake News

Homeschoolers from all over Minnesota enjoyed Homeschool Day at the Jeffers Petroglyphs on Monday.

With time slipping away on the availability of $200,000 in clean water grant funds, local watershed district officials have taken steps to sweeten the deal theya ll offer to potentially interested landowners.

Residents of the Southwest Star Concept school district will go to the polls Tuesday to cast their vote for a ballot referendum that could very well determine whether SSC continues as it has or whether drastic changes in the way the school district operates are put into place.

A group of belly dancers with a member who hails from Jackson and the vocal and instrumental talents of Allen and Nancy Jensen from Heron Lake will be part of an evening of family entertainment coming Saturday to the auditorium of the Business, Arts and Recreation Center in Windom.

Several people were injured in a two-car accident Monday afternoon southeast of Okabena.

A Heron Lake man was injured Saturday in Jackson County after being shot in the chest by a member of his own hunting party.

On Saturday, Oct. 10, the Learning to Give class at Southwest Star Concept School hosted a Team Lemon Walk in Heron Lake for the fight against childhood cancer.

Jackson Countya s Okabena Creek and Lake Flaherty, along with five other lakes in the Des Moines River Basin, are set to join the Minnesota Pollution Control Agencya s 2010 list of impaired waters, bringing the state total to 3,049 on 1,205 lakes and 436 rivers.

AUSTIN -- Patricia Ann Hanson, age 77, beloved mother, grandmother and friend, passed away Monday, Sept.

St. Paul, Minn. -- A demonstration project on reducing sediment in Heron Lake in southwest Minnesota.

Several dozen Luxembourgers visited New Ulm Monday evening while on a four-state tour of the Upper Midwest.

Nearly 50 people from Lakefield, Wilder and Heron Lake gathered at the Lakefield Multi-purpose Center July 29 to receive input and ask questions regarding the upcoming residential housing rehabilitation grant program to be implemented in their communities.

Nearly 50 people from Lakefield, Wilder and Heron Lake gathered at the Lakefield Multi-purpose Center July 29 to receive input and ask questions regarding the upcoming residential housing rehabilitation grant program to be implemented in their communities.

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Jackson County that threatens to drop large amounts of hail on the northern and central portions of the county.

Last August, the Prairie Ecology Bus Center hosted its first-ever Prairie Steak Fry and Raffle event as a fundraiser for the center and its programming.

The 2009 Outstanding Senior Citizens of Jackson County have been selected. Bob Svoboda of Jackson and Louise Hecker of Heron Lake will be honored at the Jackson County Fair on Sunday, Aug.

Local emergency responders were called to the scene of a shooting Thursday afternoon in Okabena.

Initial reports from the scene of a Wednesday afternoon accident north of Lakefield indicate one person has died as a result of injuries sustained in the collision.

The Heron Lake Watershed District will host a local conservation tillage tour Wednesday, July 1. District education coordinator Melanie Luinenburg Raine says the tour is the publica s opportunity to see firsthand how local producers make conservation tillage a profitable, workable practice on their farm.

A change to one of the countya s tile systems was approved Tuesday by the Jackson County Board of Commissioners in order for a drained wetland north of Lakefield and east of South Heron Lake to be restored.