Lake City
100 years
Oct 11, 2018
A dining tent at Huettl’s Locker and Dressing Plant in Lake City filled to capacity not long after its 100th anniversary celebration began Friday, Oct. 5. It was still full hours later. The Huettl family has been butchering in Lake City since 1918 and for much of that time they’ve operated a retail...
Our memories in stone - William and Mary Webster
Sep 19, 2018
The Lake City Historical Society has an on-going project to restore the legibility of stones marking the graves of people relevant to the early history of the community. (Checks to support this work should be mailed to LCHS, PO 245, Lake City, MN 55041.) For this issue of the Graphic, the featured...
Halvorson: Always been a (Hiawatha) valley girl
Aug 22, 2018
Did you ever really think about where you’ve spent most of your life? Mine was spent in the Hiawatha Valley which to me is the area between St. Paul and Winona.
My dad’s family migrated from southern Iowa to St. Paul. Mom’s migrated to Winona. We had relatives sprinkled in between.
Growing up...
Highway 63 paving project to begin
Aug 8, 2018
Motorists on Highway 63 north of Zumbro Falls to south of Lake City will encounter lane closures and a three-week detour beginning Monday, Aug. 13 as work begins to pave approximately nine miles of state highway with blacktop, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT).Crews...
Miles Johnston Jazz Trio performs Saturday at the Railhouse
Aug 8, 2018
The Miles Johnston Jazz Trio will perform Saturday, Aug. 11, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Railhouse Grill in Lake City. Johnston and friends play a variety of standards, blues and jazz taken from the great American song book and from Miles’ original music repertoire. Pianist Larry Price teaches...
Mayor’s tweet goes viral
Aug 8, 2018
Lake City Mayor Mark Nichols scored a viral marketing success for Lake City on June 30 with his reply to reality television star Paris Hilton’s “Tell me something I don’t know” tweet. Hilton’s tweet attracted over 1,800 retweets and 15,000 replies, and Nichols’ response about Lake City being the...
A note about election letters
Aug 1, 2018
The Graphic will continue its practice of not allowing election letters about specific candidates or issues the week before the election to prevent someone from making a claim that can’t be rebutted in the paper before ballots are cast.
Since Aug. 9 is the final issue before the Aug. 14 Lake City...
Halverson: Social tech has replaced socializing
Aug 1, 2018
Conversation, a lost art. Replaced by cell phones, texting and Tweets.
It’s rare to see people having dinner actually talking. Instead they are constantly looking at their cell phones. Gone are the lively dinner conversations where families actually stayed in touch.
Some of my fondest memories are...
National Night Out is Tuesday, Aug. 7
Aug 1, 2018
National Night Out is Tuesday, Aug. 7, with celebrations planned in Lake City, Florence Township, Zumbro Falls, and at the Criminal Justice Center in Wabasha.
The annual night of block parties is designed to create connections among neighbors and law enforcement as a way to combat crime....
Council candidates to share views in person and in print
Jul 25, 2018
Voters in the Aug. 14 Lake City City Council primary election can learn more about the candidates at an Aug. 2 candidate forum and in the Aug. 2 issue of this newspaper.
The field of eight candidates for three city council seats will be narrowed to six on Aug. 14. The general election is Nov. 6....
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