Spring Grove News

Steve Lansing served in the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam and always will remember his welcome home from war: A pretty flight attendant snarled an obscenity at him and dumped a drink in his lap.

Houston County DFL chairman Steve Kemp will step down from his leadership post to run for the Minnesota House in 2010.

By Craig Moorhead Special for the Argus At the June 16 meeting of the ISD #299 Board of Education, Superintendent Michael Moriarty presented directors with a budget for the coming year.

The team members and riders of the Friendship Wagon Train are gearing up for their annual week-long trek to raise funds for children and adults with developmental disabilities who attend Camp Winnebago.

By Charlie Warner Argus News Editor Wishing to have a back-up plan in case Houston County is not awarded a federal EDA stimulus grant to help fund the proposed highway department complex, the county board formed a committee to investigate the former Roverud Construction building in Spring Grove as an alternative site.

Three area girls had lofty finishes in final events on Friday at the Class A girls state track and field meet.

ST. PAUL - Nick Weis is trying to stay relaxed, trying to have fun. He just sounds so serious about it.

By Charlie Warner Argus News Editor Figuring they were saving more than $8,700 in the storage shelving bid received for the County Community Services building, the Houston County Board unanimously approved a motion to purchase a slightly used generator for $9,500 from Viking Electric of Spring Grove.

Going to a movie in southern Houston County no longer involves leaving the state.

Despite the economic woes in many small towns, one small city in southeast Minnesota recently built a state-of-the-art movie theater.

By Charlie Warner Argus News Editor A long-running legal battle over zoning issues between Houston County and Matthew and Beth Solum, 23642 Maple Leaf Drive in Spring Grove Township was resolved earlier this month.

By Craig Moorhead Special for the Argus Members of the Bee Creek and Duck Creek watershed committee met May 20 in Spring Grove.

By Charlie Warner Argus News Editor Chuck Ellingson and his employees breathed a collective sigh of relief on May 15 when the day came and went and there was no letter from General Motors.

2 Lewiston-Altura defeated No. 7 Spring Grove 10-0 in five innings in Section 1A East play.

Jerome Neumann sat in a classroom at University Center Rochester Tuesday morning, a long way from the factories and plants where he worked for some 35 years.

By Charlie Warner Argus News Editor Electric rates will be going up for Caledonia residents, as well as all customers of Tri-County Electric Cooperative.

Three festivals in southeastern Minnesota this weekend will kick off the festival season with fishing, parades and star-gazing. * Preston Trout Days festivities will begin at 7 a.m. Saturday with a Lions Club pancake and French toast breakfast at Preston United Methodist Church.

The flight patterns are still important as Spring Grove's flying farmer Glenn Kinneberg hopes this summer to receive the "oldest" flying farmer award at Dayton, Ohio, June 21-15.

Eric Peterson already has accomplished a great deal as a head golf professional.

Longtime Caledonia-area businessman Richard S. Skauge 61, died Thursday, April 23 at his Spring Grove home.