Rose Creek News

Two area grain-dryer fires during the weekend continued a trend related to this fall's wet harvesting season.

No one was hurt during a Sunday farm fire in Rose Creek, but a farmer did lose his $10,000 corn dryer.

Police Report, Nov. 10

Police Report, Nov. 3

Two authors are returning to their roots this weekend to help raise extra money for the Southland school district.

Work should be underway soon on a new segment of a state recreational trail that winds through the area.

Ozark minnows A surprising variety of fish, including a rare minnow, was found in the Austin area's Cedar River watershed in August, a state agency says.

Police report, Oct. 7

The Austin Area Chamber of Commerce is honoring Jack Thill of Tradexpos, Inc. with their 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award Wednesday.

Two Southland High School alumni and accomplished authors will speak at a Belgian waffle fundraiser Saturday, Oct.

For the first time in Minnesota history, an Ozark minnow was found during a fish survey in the Turtle Creek watershed east of Austin.

I got my T-shirt and more at Six Mile Grove Lutheran Church's 150th celebration last Saturday .

Mower County officials are ready to take a small step forward in completing a state trail that winds through the area.

Erik Akkerman in the role of a bull fighter. An Austin High School grad is hanging up the spurs and lacing up a pair of cleats.

Erik Akkerman, 24, collided with Todd Klatt, 45, of Brownsdale on State Highway 56 near Hosmer Street in Brownsdale while Klatt was turning left.

Dave and Jurine Smith have been busy this week cutting grass and making sure the yard is ready.

In Minnesota and beyond, small towns jockey to reach visitors by playing up their "thing." The "thing" is a natural wonder in "Gateway to the Boundary Waters" Ely; it's agriculture in Barnesville, host to the outrageous Potato Days each August, and it's a manmade wonder in tiny Darwin, where the Largest Ball of Twine lounges under its own gazebo ...

Liz Meany is doing something that nobody has done in Mower County since 2001. The 16-year-old from Rose Creek was recently named a state 4-H ambassador, which will allow the high school student to travel Minnesota promoting the organization for a year - the first Mower County representative in almost a decade.

A Rose Creek man told the Mower County board on Tuesday that any plans to build the Shooting Star bike trail through his yard would be strongly opposed.

This is the 2009 Friendship Wagon Train, now rolling for the 21st year, and it was nearing the end of its roughly 140-mile, six-day trek from Camp Winnebago, near Caledonia, Minn.