North Mankato News

Susie Brown and James Carlson fill a sandbox at the North Mankato day-care home of Kristy Olson.

Malia Krohn and Laura Veenhuis know their way around oil paints and canvases, as graduates of the studio arts program at Bethany Lutheran College.

Several people who were already charged in Blue Earth County for a June graffiti spree are now facing charges in Nicollet County.

Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University, Fort Hood: three places that have had shootings and lost lives.

Attached to each sack was this message: "In these hard economic times, we must look to those who are less fortunate than ourselves.

The Memorial Service for Charles Allen Wall of Mankato, will be held at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, November 14, 2009, at Crossview Covenant Church, 2000 Howard Dr., North Mankato, Pastor Kevin Melin officiating.

Mail: The Mankato and North Mankato post offices and the Madison East branch will be closed Wednesday in observance of Veterans Day.

A legal settlement has been reached paying thousands of dollars to a family whose middle school student was injured playing kickball during summer school in North Mankato, Minn.

Sorting through our holiday decorations, we start to look like Scrooge's overburdened partner, Marley.

Upper North Mankato drivers found things a little easier to get to during the weekend with the opening of the nearly completed Lor Ray Drive/Commerce Drive intersection after several months of construction.

Maybe if I'd have had a conceal-carry permit instead of a shovel it would have been easier to explain to my lower North Mankato neighbors.

Green glass is piling up at the recycling center in North Mankato A- and most other places.

An Oct. 2, 2010 wedding is planned. Specken - Saigh The Free Press Melissa Specken daughter of Dale and Jane Specken of Hopkins.

A police officer responding to a disruption at the Kato Ballroom ended up in a skirmish with three people, including a woman who allegedly whacked him on the head with her shoe.

The North Mankato Taylor Library was closed for a few hours Thursday and will be for a few days next month as construction workers put the finishing touches on a major expansion of the city's only public library.

Most Minnesotans reading Nick Healy's short story "Uncle Ed's Packard" will understand the brief reference to Armistice Day in the context of an impending storm.

Police say it was a case of mistaken identity that resulted in a felony burglary charge being wrongly filed against a 27-year-old North Mankato woman Thursday.

The traveling public, transportation stakeholders, rail providers and local government officials are invited to provide input for the The Minnesota Department of Transportation's 2009 Comprehensive Statewide Freight and Passenger Rail Plan.

Unhappy about proposed cuts in funding for library and bookmobile services, North Mankato officials were ready for a fight with Nicollet County Monday.

A North Mankato company seeks a loan to stay in production.Thin Film Technology is located on Commerce Drive, but its parent company is based in Japan.That company has shut down production at the North Mankato office... resulting in layoffs.Thin Film wants to buy them out and become their own owner... but to do so, they're applying for a loan from ...