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ST. PETER — Neisen’s Riverside Sports Bar will soon be opening in the former Whiskey River location in St. Peter.

MANKATO — A workshop aimed at getting farmers $4 or more for their corn is scheduled for Mankato on Jan. 9.

MANKATO — The Mankato region beat all other regional cities and the state in adding jobs in October.

NORTH MANKATO — When an athlete is injured during a game, athletic trainers and EMTs have to think fast, and they have to be on the same page.

MANKATO — The first day of televised impeachment hearings may have captivated official Washington.

A Mankato woman who has an IQ of 68 told police earlier this month she had a sexual relationship with Ronald Robert Huelsnitz, 48. 

Rebecca Kump was upset the school was not doing enough to protect her daughter from bullying, according to a court complaint.

A Waseca sheriff deputy who was badly burned by a power line has been released from the hospital.

MANKATO — Up to two dozen low-income area residents were left without heat for a while during this colder-than-usual week of November.

The Maple River School District will make a fourth request to raise property taxes to build a new school.

MANKATO — Horizon Homes in Mankato has received a Circle of Excellence award from the state Department of Human Services.

The state’s study of which streams, rivers and lakes don’t meet water quality standards has hit a milestone, with more effort now focusing on how to clean up the water.

Virtually all of the staff at United Prairie Bank are Mankato area natives, leading to an understanding of the area and a dedication to giving back, according to Doug Lago, market president of the bank.

MANKATO — The Cog of the Wild sculpture by Andrew Nyberg has won this year’s People’s Choice Award in the annual CityArt Walking Sculpture Tour.

New Ulm and Brown County are the first users of the Vitals app in south-central Minnesota.

WASECA — A 43-year-old Inver Grove Heights woman died in a two-vehicle crash early Tuesday north of Waseca.

November’s record cold temperatures have had Minnesotans grumbling, but Missouri residents got our cold weather — along with our farm odors.

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The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Tuesday Highway 14 was not selected for its Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development or BUILD grant program.

The Covia silica sand mining operation at Kasota is permanently closed, leaving county officials uncertain of the future of the thousands of acres the company owns.

MANKATO — Construction of a $3.2 million three-story building on the 500 block of North Riverfront Drive — the largest new investment in Mankato’s Old Town since the 1960s — is contingent on $223,000 in tax-increment financing, the City Council was told Tuesday night.

MANKATO — Planned renovations at the Blue Earth Nicollet County Humane Society would allow the nonprofit to handle more spaying and neutering on site.

A ceremony that commenced in the Maple River High School gymnasium and concluded at a frigid Highway 22 wayside on the north end of Mapleton Monday had its beginnings 75 years ago in the midst of World War II.

Lyle Grothe of Mankato got surprise recognition on Veterans Day from Home Instead Senior Care Community Service 

MANKATO — Using the four cardinal virtues — prudence, justice, courage, temperance — to frame the context of what those in the military need in times of war, the Rev. Steven Reagles told a group gathered on the Bethany Lutheran College campus that wars have always created chaos for the world.

Noor Shakul, 32, was killed in a rollover on Interstate 24 near Clarksville, Tenn.

Joseph Stanley Uldrych Jr. was field dressing a deer and accidentally cut himself.

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BLUE EARTH — Retired Cmdr. Jean (Kohlmeyer) Witter entered the Navy Woman’s Officer training program in 1969 during the vanguard of the program.

Q: At the Hilltop Hy-Vee on the southwest side of the parking lot, they had some collection bins. You could throw any kind of fabric in there, even old underwear, and it would be recycled. Now the bins are gone. I asked Hy-Vee, and they said they weren’t connected with that. I have stuff I’d…

MANKATO — State lawmakers, visiting Mankato last month to view a $2.3 million funding request from the city, were repeatedly told that the rapid erosion of a Minnesota River bank was an immediate threat to a major Mankato well.

For one 2.5-acre slice of Mankato, south-central Minnnesotans won’t have to wonder when winter will come to an end. Spring-like temperatures and green snow-free turf are scheduled for Nov. 25 on the southeastern edge of the Minnesota State University campus.

I suspect that even those who claim to hate winter get a little giddy at the first real snow.