Pine Island News

Lauren Heller waited patiently Saturday to practice her skill with scalpel and words, and help find out if a deadly disease is in wild deer around Pine Island.

The expression "better safe than sorry" might not sound terribly official or scientific, but it's an important principle, especially if you're dealing with infectious diseases in animals.

It is not too early to start thinking about Thanksgiving, a day where the menu is pretty much set and any slight change could bring an uprising.

In the competition for students, not all school districts are created equal. In the past decade, declining enrollment has been a fact of life for most of the 34 school districts in southeastern Minnesota, but the pain has not been distributed evenly, a review of state data shows.

Having written about rock in the last Poster Poems , I thought it might be interesting to move on to something a little less permanent this time around, and so I lit on the idea of poems about butterflies.

In honor of National Magic Week, the Society of American Magicians Rochester Mystic 13 Assembly 205 will present "Strange & Unusual Things." The show featuring the Midwest's top variety, magic and comedy acts will be at 7 p.m. Oct.

An explosion at a grain elevator shook the southeastern Minnesota town of Pine Island on Wednesday.

I started writing this alternate-weekend column Aug. 29 with my memories of that radio program in the 1940s and '50s called "The Old Fashioned Revival Hour" from Los Angeles.

Some area seasonal influenza vaccination clinics are being canceled due to short supply, including ones scheduled for Thursday in Zumbrota and Pine Island.

Farmers Ed Osterbauer of Pine Island, Minn., left, and Richard Puzy of Danville, Ill., both 73, were in tractor heaven on Friday at the Northfield estate of the late Palmer Fossum.

Pine Island's City Hall has been a gathering place for 100 years. The city hall wasn't only a place for the civic-minded to debate issues, it was a place where people could play basketball, rehearse for weekly band concerts and serve free dinners.

The photo and headline on the front page of last Tuesday's Post-Bulletin told a very sad tale.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 24 VOLLEYBALL Big Nine Conference -- Winona at Mayo Austin at John Marshall Century at Mankato West Albert Lea at Owatonna Hiawatha Valley League -- Lourdes at Zumbrota-Mazeppa Pine Island at Triton LaCrescent at Kenyon-Wanamingo Winona Cott

Rifle shooters will work in the next week and a half to destroy 700 elk in southeastern Minnesota that could have chronic wasting disease.

Two kidnapping charges, one of third-degree assault and one of making terroristic threats, all felonies, against a Pine Island man were dismissed Friday in Dodge District Court.

At the beading booth, Debbie Manlove of Amery and Jill Mathews, Pine Island, Minn.

A Sept. 26 wedding is planned. Beyer - Fleming The Free Press Brooke Beyer daughter of Bruce and Julie Beyer of Minnesota Lake.

A rural Pine Island woman said she jumped from a moving vehicle and ran to a farm house for help after a man assaulted her and threatened to kill her five months ago.

Get ready to celebrate: This weekend, the Post-Bulletin rolls out a brand new section, called Celebrations, where you'll find more Rochester-area coverage and photos of weddings, engagements, anniversaries and other memorable events.

On their first day of school Monday, seven students splashed, got muddy, yelped, giggled, whooped and had their fingers nipped as they hunted crawfish in the shallows of the Zumbro River in Pine Island.