New Prairie Store opens in Glenwood Oct. 24, 1963 – Seven people were seriously injured in two separate county car accidents. Both were head-on crashes, one in Starbuck and one between Starbuck and Glenwood.  The Glenwood Methodist Church was celebrating the 80th anniversary of the beginning of its congregation. The Rev. Don Haarup was the current  pastor of… Read More

District 69 to hold Halloween party and string social From the Pope County Tribune, Thursday, October 25, 1923. There will be a Halloween party and string social in District 69 Friday evening, Nov. 2. Lunch will be served. You are requested to bring your pocketbooks. Lillian Dalager, Teacher. In order to stimulate some real interest in renewing… Read More

The Minnewaska Area volleyball team lost a pair of tough matches last week to two of the top teams in the WCC.   The Lakers, who dropped to 6-7 in the conference and 11-10 overall, lost in five games at Melrose Area last Tuesday night and also fell in four games to league-leading Sauk Centre at… Read More

Minnewaska Elementary first graders have been studying the life cycle of butterflies in a recent project. The class began the project with their caterpillars creating cocoons and this week, the chrysallis’ opened to reveal butterflies. Students were taken outside to release the butterflies and were asked to document their observations.  Check out more photos in our… Read More

The 19th Annual Harvest Ball was in full swing last weekend at the Minnewaska House to raise funds for the bone density scanning machine at Glacial Ridge Health Services. The ball, put on by the GRHS Auxiliary group, was well attended for a live auction, silent auction, raffles and dancing. This year’s theme was “Fly… Read More

Join author Carolyn Mankell Sowinski Wednesday October 18th at 6:30 pm at the Pope County Museum for a book talk about The Great Storm:  Minnesota’s Victims in the Blizzard of January 7, 1873. On January 7-9, 1873, Minnesota residents experienced a violent blizzard when dozens of people died primarily on the flat, tree-less prairies.  Kandiyohi County… Read More

By Tim Douglass tdouglass@pctribune.com Glenwood City Commissioners adopted a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) plan that involves improvements to two buildings in Glenwood owned by Zavadil Limited Partners.  Although the TIF District established contains both parcels and buildings, the plan is to treat both buildings separately, according to Jason Murray, of DDA-David Drown Associates, Inc., who presented… Read More

Students from Minnewaska Area Elementary School, Glacial Hills Elementary School and Discovery Days Preschool observed Fire Prevention Week. Area firefighters gave presentations on fire safety including what children should do if there is a fire in their home. Classes visited the fire station to see the trucks and MAES second and third graders experienced a… Read More

•Group asks for county, city support of childcare option By Melanie Stegner  and Tim Douglass tdouglass@pctribune.com The Childcare shortage has been a hot topic in the area for quite some time and it came up again at last week’s Pope County Commissioner’s Committee- of-the-Whole work session meeting. A project proposal was brought forth by Larry Zavadil of American Solutions for… Read More

•New radar system to be installed in Grant County Grant County, together with the City of Wendell  announced last week that its partner, Climavision, a climate-tech data pioneer, is nearing the completion of installing a new weather radar system in Wendell.  This X-band radar will supplement weather coverage in between neighboring NEXRAD S-Band radars. This Wednesday, Oct. 18, there… Read More