Taopi News

Mike Hanson, county highway department engineer, has announced a bid letting date for 1 p.m. Aug.

The question to ask is "Do you believe in miracles?" They did Saturday at the 2008 Mower County Fair 4-H Market Livestock Ribbon Auction.

Members of the Prairie Visions organization left Tuesday's county board meeting feeling disappointed again over the lagging attention to extending the Shooting Star recreation trail.

Water levels in Austin's three major tributaries - ' Cedar River, Turtle Creek and Dobbins Creek - ' are at flood stage and expected to rise, according to Police Chief Paul Philipp, who said that severe storms ...

On Tuesday, Independent, Republican and Democratic parties will conduct their caucuses at 7 p.m. at the following locations within Mower County: Democratic Party, Austin Labor Center; Independence Party, Austin ... via The Austin Daily Herald

“We've seen what a recreation trail can do at Lanesboro where we live”

The Prairie Visions' spirit is infectious. Witness the 2007 Pat On The Back Get-together held Monday evening at Sweets Hotel in LeRoy. via The Austin Daily Herald

At the meeting of Prairie Visions on Monday, Oct. 22, at the Rose Creek Fire Hall, Ken Hartwig of Rose Creek reported on the location and pictures of the Chief Taopi burial site in Faribault. Hartwig plans to build replicas of the teepee and some interpretive reading sites about the history of Chief Taopi, along the Shooting Star Trail. Contact will also be made with the county and State Historical Societies and the DNR for wording on the signs which will be built along the trail for bikers to stop and read in rest areas. Read more

By LEE BONORDEN/ lee.bonorden@austindailyherald.com It's up to the Mower County Board of Commissioners what happens next in Lansing Township, where straight pipe discharges into the Cedar River have been ... via The Austin Daily Herald