North Mankato News

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 ...

Desperate times call for desperate action? Consider this: A South Central College student emerges from a long day in class and finds that the needle on her car's gas gauge has inexplicably gone from pointing in the general "F" direction to pointing in the general "E" direction.

Adam Gray, a Mankato police officer, said drivers and their passengers should be prepared to get a ticket if they're caught on the road without a seat belt.

Winters have been a little on the cool side in Albert Otto's North Mankato home.

This story is featured in the October Minnesota Valley Business magazine. To subscribe, call Free Press reader services at 625-4451. John Roise, owner of Lindsay Window & Door in North Mankato, bucks the trends.

Eleven area men, including a Mankatoan, are working toward ordinations as permanent deacons for the Catholic Diocese of New Ulm.

Clair M. Fogarty, 86, of North Mankato died Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, at Immanuel St.

Richard Thomas Hancock, age 83, of North Mankato, died Sunday, October 4, 2009, at Oak Terrace in North Mankato.

Q: Where is the actual boundary line between Mankato and North Mankato? A: The Minnesota River, mostly.