Lake City native Natalie Bremer received Rochester Sports’ 2024 Post High School Female Athlete of the Year Award at the organiztions Feb. 2 banquet. Bremer is a junior at Minnesota State University - Mankato and a member of its women’s basketball team. During the 23-24 season, she averaged 15.6...
Fishing contests and more will lure people outdoors for winter fun around the area in the coming weeks.
Frontenac
Sportsman’s Club fishing contest
Frontenac Sportsman’s Club’s annual ice fishing contest and fundraiser will be Saturday, Feb. 8, on Frontenac Pond.
The fishing contest runs from 1 p...
Our own Wabasha-Kellogg 5th-grade teacher, Daria Dalager of Lake City, was the recipient of the K-5 Minnesota State Veterans of Foreign Wars Smart/Maher Citizenship Education Teacher Award at the Mid-Winter Conference in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, and was honored and presented with her award at the...
Heavy equipment and piles of large rocks can be found near the shore at Lake City’s Hok-Si-La Park as work is in progress to restore shoreline damaged in last year’s flooding, as well as install mitigation measures, such as rip rap.
As of Feb. 3, rip rap was going in along the shore at the group...
His name was Wallace, but you didn’t hear it used much. He was just good old Wally to us, and he was a fisherman. Fishing was totally his thing especially in the winter. He couldn’t afford a decent boat, so the winter ice brought a chance for him to be out on the lake. Over the holidays in 1969 he...
On Jan. 25, Eloise Blattner stopped by the Lake City Arts (LCAA) Center during the Hot Cocoa Crawl sponsored by the Shops of Lake City. Eloise, a past president of the Lake City Historical Society had a wonderful hot cocoa story to share with a captive audience of Ruby and Penny and Sammy the...
The Lake City Tigers concluded their busiest week of the season this week after having four events throughout the week. The competitions started on Monday, Jan. 27, when the Tigers traveled to Cannon Falls to take on conference and section foe.
Cannon Falls jumped out to an early lead and never...
Although the middle of winter, post holiday, January can feel like a slower time of year, that is hardly the case at Lake City Schools. From Snow Days Week to sporting events, to One Act Play and band concerts, there is much to do when it’s cold outside.
Minnehaha Academy made 13 three-point field goals and took advantage of an ice cold shooting afternoon by Lake City as the Redhawks defeated the Tigers 75-36 in non-conference action Saturday afternoon at Lincoln High School.
Whew! The Lake City High School Speech Team completed their 2025 season debut at the Mayo High School Spartan Speech Showdown in Rochester.
The competition was a glowing success, as 7 out of their 11 team members broke finals! Additionally, a few members competed for their first time ever, and...
Ninth-ranked Stewartville used a 17-6 run to open the second half to key a 63-54 victory over Lake City last Monday night.
Both teams struggled to find an offensive rhythm early before Braxton Berlin provided a spark off the bench for Lake City by scoring eight points in less than two minutes,...
There once was a time where texting did not exist. Nor did email, smart phones or social media.
The most common form for “dropping a line” was the penny postcard and they were ubiquitous. People sent postcards for holidays and birthdays.
Travel postcards were sent from just about every city,...
Due to the deteriorating condition of timber piles supporting the Grant Boulevard (Wabasha County Hwy. 59) bridge in the City of Wabasha, the west/south parking lane is closed to traffic, according to the Wabasha County Highway Department.
Wabasha County is planning to replace this bridge as...
The lack of snow again this year didn’t stop the enthusiasm of walkers at the annual Lake City Lions Club Moonlight Ski/Snow Shoe/Walk event at Hok-Si-La Park last Saturday, the club said in a news release.
But the strong and cold winds caused a number of people to stay home. Last year, over...
The Lake City High School Tiger girls had a busy three-game week.
They came out of the week with a 1-2 record. This brought the overall record for the season to 10-10.
The busy stretch continued for the girls as they were scheduled to play 4 games in the ensuing week.
Conference championships arrived in the Nordic world last week. After ten weeks since the first practice and eight weeks of racing contests, the 12 team Twin Cities Nordic Ski Conference (TCNSC) contested both its varsity and junior varsity championship races on Monday, Jan. 27, and Thursday, Jan....
Goodhue County Administrator Scott Arneson announced on Jan. 27 the hiring of former City of Lake City Planning and Community Development Director Megan Smith as the county’s Land Use Management Director. She had been serving as interim Land Use Management Director since November 2024.
“Megan...
The Lake City Public Library invites the public to the upcoming program Whitewater Prisoner of War Camp with Interpretive Naturalist Jeremy Darst.
“Attendees will learn about one of the lesser-known parts of Minnesota’s history: why Whitewater State Park was once home to German Prisoners of War....
Lake City edged Pine Island 77-76 in an overtime thriller last Thursday night at Lincoln High School in a game that featured 23 lead changes and nine ties.
Neither team led by more than five points in a tightly contested first half. Josh Wohlers scored 12 points for the Tigers in the first ten...
Goodhue defeated Lake City 60-49 last Tuesday as the Wildcats scored the final nine points of the game to sweep the season series between the two teams for the first time since 2011.
The two squads were meeting for the second time in just eight days as the game got off to a competitive start...
On Jan. 30 the Lake City High School girls wrestling team traveled to Byron for their final competition of the regular season.
Eight of nine girls were able to get matches with the Tigers winning 6 of the 9 matches wrestled. Junior Ella Weist led off the night with a 14-5 major decision win....
Talk about your Dry January — was it ever! Our snow drought continues. Still, we haven’t given up pining for a good snowstorm — chances remain in February and March. And if one roars in, Frontenac State Park will be a cross-country ski and snowshoeing paradise. In the meantime, its hiking trails...
The Greater Lake City Community Foundation is pleased to announce the establishment of a new endowed Scholarship that will be awarded annually, beginning in 2025, to a graduating senior who intends to major in chemistry or engineering.
The scholarship is named after Jim Schreck, a local...
This week saw the Lake City Tiger junior varsity (JV) squad travel to Cannon Falls for a rare Monday dual on Jan. 27 and to Byron on Thursday, Jan 30.
In the Cannon Falls match, Henry Patterson had the match of the night for the Tigers. He wrestled an opponent that has wrestled in multiple...
The Lake City varsity dance team (LCDT) is busy perfecting their choreography this week as they prepare for the final showdown at Section 1A competition in Lake City on Saturday, Feb. 8. Their hope is that they can place in the top three and earn a spot at the Minnesota High School State Dance...
FFA has been busy with multiple events and contests.
Its Milk Quality team won the region contest and is moving on to state.
The team was made up of the following students who also placed high individually:
• Emily Mellgren, 15th place
• Ashley Mellgren, 16th place
• Erica Wallerich, eighth...
Kristi Gross explained her duties as the new Lake City Planning and Community Development staff member.
She works closely with the Port Authority staff on issues that are east of Highway 61 and with other staff on all other properties west of 61. One of those is the nearly 80 acres called the...
We are fortunate to live in an area where excellent medical care is so close and convenient. If you have been hospitalized, you have observed and appreciated the critical care provided by nurses. It is a wonder to behold! But hospitals are experiencing a shortage of nurses. At times beds are...