Waseca News

Everyone loves a marching band. The Owatonna summer Marching Band program, under the direction of Pete Guenther, is recognized as one of the finest in the state of Minnesota.

Operating referendums in the Waterville-Elysian-Morristown, New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva, Blue Earth Area and Maple River school districts passed during elections held today.

Multiple school districts combatting funding issues By Tanner Kent For area school districts attempting operating referendums, it was heartbreak or hooray on Election Day.

The Memorial Service for Curtis Jerome Thompson of Minneapolis, formerly of New Richland and Mankato, will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, November 5, 2009, at LeSueur River Lutheran Church, rural New Richland.

Voters in two Steele County school districts will among those in several districts across the state who will be asked Tuesday to give the schools more money.

Over the last three years, the Waseca school district has cut more than 2 million dollars from the budget, and twenty teachers from their staff.Depending on the results of a referendum next Tuesday, they say even bigger changes could be coming up.Fox Mankato's Ryan Gustafson has the story.The Waseca school district is asking for one thousand three ...

New flu figures released by the Minnesota Health Department on Wednesday showed two more H1N1-related deaths - bringing the state's overall total to 12.

The Minnesota Department of Health reported two more deaths connected with the H1N1 flu virus in the state.

An Owatonna couple and a Waseca man were injured after a head-on accident Wednesday afternoon on Highway 14.

A Waseca hospital administrator who died after contracting the H1N1 flu virus had no underlying medical conditions, a family member said.

Joseph's hospital in Mankato, his death hits home for staff because they worked with Milbrath for more than 10 years.

Posted on Oct 23, 2009 by Admin . Fred Louis Ludemann Fred Louis Ludemann, 69, of La Porte City was arrested Thursday by the Benton County Sheriff's Office for allegedly sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl in Waseca, Minn.

The Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation awarded computers to 15 different organizations on Thursday in the name of early childhood education.

A Waseca man faces multiple felony charges after allegedly stealing a golf cart and crashing it into a barb wire fence in Owatonna.

Stewart W. Peterson, age 86 of Waseca died on Monday, October 19, 2009 at his residence in Waseca.

Sharon Sanford and Christine Baidoo had never heard of the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train and didn't know the show was coming to their towns to benefit their food shelves.

The Canadian Pacific RailroadA's Holiday Train is scheduled to make its first-ever visits to south-central Minnesota on Dec.

According to a Minnesota Department of Public Safety study, Freeborn County motorists do a poor job of wearing their seat belts.

According to a Minnesota Department of Public Safety study, Freeborn County motorists do a poor job of wearing their seat belts.

Mary J. Spies, age 81 of Waseca, died on Thursday, October 15, 2009, at her home, surrounded by her family.