Wykoff News

Donald Eickoff of Wykoff remembers this first weekend in September 1952. He won a National Plowing match.

Six people are facing criminal charges for allegedly breaking into a LeRoy home last month, assaulting several people inside and trashing the place.

Rochesterfest is over. The fireworks have come and gone. With an unusually cool spring, maybe you have felt like you blinked and missed June altogether.

One man is dead after a motorcycle crash in Fillmore County. The crash happened yesterday evening about a mile north of Wykoff.

The motorcyclist who died Thursday evening in a Fillmore County accident has been identified as a LeRoy man.

A motoryclist died Thursday in a head-on crash on Fillmore County Road 5 about a mile north of Wykoff, and a companion biker was injured, the Fillmore County Sheriff's Office reports.

WYKOFF, Minn. - The Fillmore County Sheriff's Office said a 40-year-old woman from Savage was killed in an accident at a state park.

Several Fillmore County tourist sites are open this weekend for events despite the torrential rains and flooding rivers earlier this week in southeastern Minnesota.

WYKOFF - Historic Forestville is the town that time forgot. And when you visit this Minnesota Historical Society site, you wonder where did the people go? What are their stories? It was a booming town in ... via St. Cloud Times Online

“We thought we'd be in the building within two months, but that was just a dream”

When Dan and Bev Gleason decided they wanted to sell Gleason's Grocery Store in Wykoff, several people in the community came together in hopes of creating a cooperative grocery store. via Post-Bulletin

“Not just anybody can come and sell just anything. Everyone needs to follow the rules set up for farmer's markets as outlined by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture - some plant and food vendors need a license.”

Kelly Davidson wants to veg out in Spring Valley.

She's certain it's good to hang out with the string beans, but her favorite thing to do is pickle.

"I am known by some as the 'Pickle Lady' in Chatfield," said seasoned Wykoff vegetable vendor Davidson, who would like to start a farmer's market in Spring Valley.

"I feel a farmer's market belongs in every community. Markets offer a fresh, quality product from locally grown farmers. It's nice to know where your food is coming from, you can save gas, and you can meet the person who is actually doing the growing - markets are a good place for locals to meet and socialize and they bring folks from surrounding communities into town for not only shopping at the market, but to shop other businesses, too." Read more

“You'd need a quit claim deed on the property”

The Wykoff City Council denied payment of a $2,500 bill from Jech Excavating at its November meeting held Monday, Nov. 5, at city hall. The invoice submitted to the city by the contractor reads, "Fill hauled to city from water main reconstruct project. Original invoice was to Thompson Motors of Wykoff for $6,000. Thompson Motors has paid $3,500 of it, leaving a balance of $2,500." According to the invoice, Thompson Motors owner Rod Thompson made a verbal contract with Jech Excavating to have fill from the water main replacement project being done on four Wykoff streets hauled to land he owns, but felt that he couldn't enforce the contract because "a city employee told us to place the fill in areas other than Mr. Thompson's land." Read more