(2009/07/05)
ST. CHARLES, Minn. — When school is out, the weather is warm and the sun is high, a small-town pool is the place to be.
(2009/07/05)
Conflicting testimony. Graphic crime scene images. A parade of witnesses whose recollections of a killing 24 years ago rarely sync up.
(2009/07/05)
Police have issued new citations in a brawl last week at Maplewood Townhomes, a public housing project.
(2009/07/05)
RUSHFORD, Minn n Look! Up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane.
(2009/07/04)
Winona County mortgage foreclosures declined in the first half of 2009, even as national foreclosure rates hit record highs this year.
(2009/07/04)
Thaddeus Kosciuszko. Doesn’t ring a bell? Don’t worry, the name doesn’t mean much to many people — unless you have Polish ancestry or attend Washington-Kosciuszko Elementary School.
(2009/07/04)
State and local officials are taking extra steps to bust speeders over the holiday weekend and the rest of the month.
(2009/07/04)
Three people died Thursday in crashes in Fillmore and Olmsted counties.
(2009/07/04)
The Mississippi River, even before Mark Twain spun his tales about the mighty waterway, has captivated countless people.
(2009/07/04)
MADISON — She could be your best friend. Or she could make your freshman year miserable.
(2009/07/04)
LA CRESCENT — Can you see an old Jell-O mold, a worn lamp base or a used bowling ball as a work of art? John Ready can.
(2009/07/04)
The city of St. Charles will host Winona County’s only public fireworks program at 10 p.m. today near St. Charles High School.
(2009/07/04)
The Great River Shakespeare Festival invites playgoers to attend the new “After Will” parties after several designated 2009 season performances.
(2009/07/04)
Winona Public Library and the Great River Shakespeare Festival are offering the following summer programs:
(2009/07/03)
The garage door slowly lifted, and Ardys Malesker covered her mouth. There it was, a pink convertible, the same kind she asked Santa to deliver 60 years ago, when she was 9. For decades, she dreamed of this car.
(2009/07/03)
Demolition crews knocked down Howell Hall on Thursday, while on the other side of the Winona State University campus, crews were busy building something new.
(2009/07/03)
Minnesota likely won’t be able to tap federal stimulus funds to build its portion of a Chicago-to-Twin-Cities high-speed rail line that could stop in Winona, but state officials remain optimistic that federal authorities eventually will fund the project.
(2009/07/03)
A 27-year-old man convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl won’t go to jail if he follows the terms of his probation.
(2009/07/03)
The city of Alma, Wis., wants back about $200,000 it paid an engineering company for a dredging project in the Mississippi River backwaters, says Mayor Corey Hanson.
(2009/07/03)
Mary, Yvonne, Dorothea and Marna have been friends for 30 years. They do everything together.
(2009/07/03)
Scott Maynard’s 1933 Graham has three glorious seconds of screen time in “Public Enemies.”
(2009/07/02)
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit accusing Winona County officials of negligence in the deaths of a Witoka, Minn., couple during the August 2007 floods.
(2009/07/02)
A Rushford, Minn., man was sentenced to more than four years in prison Wednesday for killing a motorcyclist while he was driving drunk on Father’s Day last year.
(2009/07/02)
STOCKTON, Minn. — It’s time to break out your checkered blankets and picnic baskets.
(2009/07/02)
Some Winona County planning commissioners say neighbors deserve to know soon after farms spill manure or chemicals that could taint drinking water.
(2009/07/02)
Five people accused of breaking into a Houston County home and assaulting a teenager appeared Wednesday in court, where one group member pleaded not guilty to felony burglary and assault.
(2009/07/02)
A Winona man accused of robbing a man, knocking out several of his teeth and damaging his retina pleaded not guilty Wednesday to several charges.
(2009/07/02)
Bail was set Wednesday for a Wisconsin man accused of setting fire to a vacant mobile home near Elba, Minn.
(2009/07/02)
LA CROSSE, Wis. — Eric Harding has no plans to retire his fully masked hooded black sweatshirt with printed skeletal bones.
(2009/07/02)
A woman was severely injured Tuesday night after a two-vehicle collision on Hwy. 54 in Trempealeau County.
(2009/07/02)
Brenda Svendsen wants her students to see the gates of Auschwitz. She wants them to know what is feels like to be part of a genocide. She wants them to understand the Holocaust.
(2009/07/01)
PRESTON, Minn. — The defense rested its case Tuesday in the murder trial of Jack Nissalke after calling just two witnesses, one of whom contradicted the testimony of a key prosecution witness.
(2009/07/01)
The results of this year’s statewide test results played out much the same as in 2008: Minnesota students improved slightly across nearly every grade, while local students improved in some areas but were worse in others.
(2009/07/01)
Owners of the Mini boast about the car’s handling and fuel efficiency, but that’s not why they drive them. It’s because they’re different. And fun.
(2009/07/01)
Winona’s next Interstate Bridge would touch down within two blocks of the current structure, under boundaries of a Minnesota Department of Transportation study that begins this week.
(2009/07/01)
It’s not just the Fourth of July weekend nudging gas prices higher in Minnesota.
(2009/07/01)
Sarah Hicks didn’t plan to be a conductor. It just kind of happened.
(2009/07/01)
A Winona woman was charged Tuesday with assault stemming from a feud between residents of the Maplewood Townhomes, police and prosecutors say.
(2009/06/30)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation captured a Winona County Jail inmate Monday in Florida who escaped in April from Community Memorial Hospital.
(2009/06/30)
The Winona County Sheriff’s Office said a Galesville, Wis., man previously convicted six times for drunken driving, crashed his boat, narrowly missing eight young swimmers Saturday afternoon and was arrested for operating under the influence.
(2009/06/30)
Prosecutors have filed felony charges against a Goodview man accused of selling prescription medications to a police informant across the street from an elementary school.
(2009/06/30)
PRESTON, Minn. — Winona County prosecutors said a statement Jack Nissalke made in a phone call to his wife from jail indicates he was involved in the 1985 stabbing death of Ada Senenfelder.
(2009/06/30)
Tina Anderson used to sell insurance. These days, she sells philanthropy.
(2009/06/30)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota milk processor is voluntarily recalling some products because they might be contaminated with salmonella.
(2009/06/30)
FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. — The little green shack in a clearing of trees on the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi River has been used by the Winona Archers for years.
(2009/06/30)
The Federal Aviation Administration has cleared the pilot of a small plane that landed in a field near Pickwick, Minn., last month after losing power on a recreational flight from La Crosse, Wis., to Winona.
(2009/06/30)
BLAIR, Wis. — An adult died in a morning house fire in Blair, according to the Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Department.
(2009/06/29)
Great River Shakespeare Festival directors Paul Barnes and Alec Wild knew their choices of “Love’s Labour’s Lost” and “The Tempest” were risky picks for season six. Neither are Shakespeare’s most familiar or popular plays. But as they’ve long said and shown, GRSF is a company not afraid to take risks.
(2009/06/29)
ELBA, Minn. — Indoor plumbing. Central air. The Internet.
(2009/06/29)
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. — Hunters and hikers have lost access to swaths of the northern Minnesota forest in recent years, but taxpayers are stepping in to keep nearly 300 square miles near the Mississippi headwaters as is: Wooded and open to the public.
(2009/06/29)
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(2009/06/29)
CHICAGO (AP) — A surprising number of teenagers — nearly 15 percent — think they’re going to die young, leading many to drug use, suicide attempts and other unsafe behavior, new research suggests.
(2009/06/28)
The Winona County courthouse is typically teeming with felony suspects, their friends and lawyers on Thursday afternoons, but this week, the halls on the fourth floor were dark and quiet.
(2009/06/28)
Jurors last week in the trial of Jack Nissalke finally heard from the defendant n though it came via a 1986 police interview.
(2009/06/28)
Seven years ago, Shakespeare was a rumor. But on Nov. 21, 2002, Paul Barnes and Mark Hauck announced during a press conference at city hall that they, along with Alec Wild, would stage the inaugural season of the Great River Shakespeare Festival in June 2004.
(2009/06/28)
Drive into a rural Minnesota town, and the school is the first thing you’re likely to see, often tucked away on the outskirts of town far from the neighborhoods of its students.
(2009/06/28)
LEWISTON, Minn. n For some people it’s Chevy versus Ford. For others, Honda versus Toyota.
(2009/06/27)
If Khashayar Zainali was home in Tehran, Iran, he would be in the streets, demanding his voice be heard and that violence against protesters stop. Instead, the Saint Mary’s University student is in the Twin Cities, taking summer courses in the university’s master’s program.
(2009/06/27)
The owner of the Independence Hotel Tap admits the building failed fire inspections but says the problems were fixed before a fire that killed three tenants, according to court documents filed earlier this month.
(2009/06/27)
FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. — More than 40 years have passed since Wayne “Skippy” Litscher gave local sportsmen a place to call home.
(2009/06/27)
A municipal center for arts and sports events in Winona is back on the drawing board after a six-month hiatus.
(2009/06/27)
U.S. Reps. Ron Kind and Tim Walz joined 211 House Democrats and eight Republicans on Friday in passing a sweeping and controversial energy plan that would for the first time put limits on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.
(2009/06/27)
Those searching for just the right mix of sombreros and festive music need look no further.
(2009/06/27)
LA CRESCENT, Minn. — The Rev. Paul Ibisch will preach his final sermon Sunday as pastor of First Evangelical Lutheran Church in La Crescent.
(2009/06/26)
State environmental officials hope they have a solution to a 20-year-old problem: the costly cleanup of dry-cleaning chemicals on Gilmore Avenue in Winona.
(2009/06/26)
U.S. Rep. Tim Walz, DFL-Minn., said Thursday he will support a bill to combat global climate change with a cap-and-trade system limiting carbon pollution.
(2009/06/26)
The Winona school district says it won’t turn over public documents to the Winona Daily News for at least six weeks, partly because Superintendent Paul Durand is out of town.
(2009/06/26)
The man accused of stabbing two people in a Goodview trailer park last month had his case delayed Thursday for the second time in as many weeks.
(2009/06/26)
TREMPEALEAU — Vandals have destroyed beetle cages at the Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge, damaging thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment and scuttling an annual project that involves hundreds of hours of labor by students and volunteers.
(2009/06/26)
Kelly Kirkpatrick is used to sharing the stage with fellow dancers. On Saturday, she’ll share it with 100-year-old hand painted backdrops at the Masonic Theatre.
(2009/06/25)
LEWISTON, Minn. — Where cows used to moo, bands will now jam.
(2009/06/25)
One of Winona County’s biggest dairies will pay the state a $15,000 fine for violating odor standards and spilling manure into a pond.
(2009/06/25)
PRESTON, Minn. — Jack Nissalke told an investigator in 1986 that Ada Senenfelder called police in fear about a week before her death when he and others went to her home.
(2009/06/25)
Unemployment rates for the city of Winona and Winona County dropped in May for the first time in seven months.
(2009/06/25)
Family Video will open a movie and game-rental store later this year in the former Burger King building near the Winona Mall.
(2009/06/25)
The financial crisis notoriously started on Wall Street, and then it gripped main street. It’s now moved to the back roads.
(2009/06/25)
RUSHFORD, Minn. — The city of Rushford is two steps closer to recovering from the August 2007 flood.
(2009/06/25)
A convicted sex offender will be released Tuesday to a home in Stevens Point, Wis., according to the Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Department.
(2009/06/24)
PRESTON, Minn. — Two cigarette butts holding Jack Nissalke’s DNA were recovered inside Ada Senenfelder’s house after her killing, but when they were left there is unknown, a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension scientist said Tuesday at the trial of Nissalke, who is charged with four counts of first-degree murder.
(2009/06/24)
Winona was the warmest place in Minnesota on Tuesday afternoon, and while that meant misery for folks trying to escape the heat, area farmers welcomed the sweltering weather.
(2009/06/24)
A trout group will spend more than $1 million in tax revenue to upgrade area streams.
(2009/06/24)
An Ostrander, Minn., man admitted Monday he was drunk when he caused a crash in Fillmore County that killed his friend and injured three others.
(2009/06/24)
A County Road 7 bridge near the historic Pickwick Mill should be replaced this summer after a vote by Winona County commissioners Tuesday night.
(2009/06/24)
LA CRESCENT, Minn. — The U.S. Agricultural Department’s Rural Utilities Service officially has begun looking into the proposed CapX2020 high-voltage line project.
(2009/06/24)
A southeast Minnesota group wants state regulators to rethink a decision to let energy companies build high-voltage lines through the Winona area.
(2009/06/24)
LA CROSSE, Wis. — Tom Servais wore his long underwear and jacket to work Tuesday.
(2009/06/24)
A homeowner escaped injury early Tuesday when fire gutted his home in the Hidden Valley Mobile Home Village, officials said.
(2009/06/24)
Lewiston will celebrate Heartland Days from Thursday through Sunday. This year’s theme is “Together, We Can Make a Difference.” Buttons are $1 and required at most events. For more information, visit www.lewistonmn.org/chamber.htm.
(2009/06/23)
A woman sexually assaulted by the Rev. Donald Dean Budd in 2003 and 2005 has sued the former pastor and the governing body that supervised him in civil court.
(2009/06/23)
Hands off our building. That’s the message Winona arts and library backers gave a college student who wants to turn the former Winona Middle School auditorium into a nightclub.
(2009/06/23)
Cathedral Elementary School looked like a college dorm at the end of the semester Monday, as the school was emptied in anticipation of its closure.
(2009/06/23)
The Associated Press WHITEHALL, Wis. -- A Wisconsin company could face more than $1.1 million in penalties for alleged violations of federal workplace safety and health standards at its whey processing plant.
(2009/06/23)
The search for a new president of Cotter Schools may stretch into 2010.
(2009/06/23)
PRESTON, Minn. -- A retired Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent testified in court Monday that shortly after the 1985 stabbing death of Ada Senenfelder, police also focused on another group besides the one that included Jack Nissalke.
(2009/06/23)
A Lewiston, Minn., man leading police on a pursuit across the Interstate Bridge into Winona early Sunday hit stop sticks and was arrested just outside the Winona County Jail, police said.
(2009/06/23)
Even your sweat won’t save you today. The temperature could climb above 95 degrees today, but with the humidity it will feel like 105 degrees or more.
(2009/06/23)
Heating and cooling account for about 55 percent of energy use in a typical home, said Katie Thomson, spokeswoman for Dairyland Power.
(2009/06/22)
TREMPEALEAU, Wis. — On a recent Friday morning, Don Hultman slipped his 14-foot john boat into the Mississippi River.
(2009/06/22)
The lead federal agency in the power line project known as CapX2020 will host a series of regional meetings this week to gather public input.
(2009/06/22)
Car sales are down across much of the country, but not at Sugar Loaf Ford in Winona, where the dealership is in the middle of a $150,000 project to expand its showroom and upgrade its lot.
(2009/06/21)
Headstones proclaiming the final resting places of Winona’s dead sit within feet of each other at St. Mary’s Cemetery.
(2009/06/21)
When Lisa Bennick put pen to paper and wrote about her father, she didn’t expect to win any awards.
(2009/06/21)
Testimony last week in the trial of Jack Nissalke centered on key prosecution witness Rena Bambenek, who on Monday told jurors that she had seen Nissalke on the night of the killing with a cut to his hand and looking for a missing knife.
(2009/06/21)
Buffalo County will receive $312,000 from the state to upgrade its 911 system, even after a public official botched the process for obtaining the money.
(2009/06/21)
No runs. One hit. Many, many errors. We were doomed from the start. Weeks ago, a handful of writers at the Winona Daily News hatched a scheme to conquer the annual Steamboat Days softball tournament.
(2009/06/20)
Lynn Duellman lugged a couple of lawn chairs to the curb along Broadway Street on Wednesday, thinking she’d reserved the perfect vantage point for the Steamboat Days parade on Sunday.
(2009/06/20)
“Fairy wings!” a woman shouted. “Get them on!”
(2009/06/20)
Jacki Tveten and Yvonne Freese don’t know what they’ll do with their heads when their turned into butter.
(2009/06/20)
Most events are at Levee Park unless otherwise stated
(2009/06/20)
It Wasn’t an easy job, but Minneapolis curator Theresa Downing picked three winners for the inaugural Southeastern Minnesota Regional Juried Art Exhibit.
(2009/06/20)
The Steamboat Days Regalia, a U.S. Title Series championship runabout and hydroplane powerboat racing event, are back on the water today at Lake Park in Winona.
(2009/06/20)
A traffic signal or a four-way stop sign aren’t warranted on Gilmore Avenue outside Winona Senior High School, according to a study funded by the Winona school district, the city and county.
(2009/06/19)
Five Winona bars will pay an undisclosed amount to a man stabbed after the bars allegedly served alcohol to his underage attacker.
(2009/06/19)
The 2009-10 school year will be one of uncertainty for the Winona school district.
(2009/06/19)
Prepare to enter Hemi heaven at Steamboat Days this weekend, when two local collectors will display rare 1960s cars with Hemi engines under the hood.
(2009/06/19)
On Saturday, it will pay to be fast. The BK5K road race is paying out $1,000 to the fastest woman and the fastest man. Runners up receive $500 dollars, and third-place finishers get $250. The winner in each adult age group gets $50.
(2009/06/19)
I didn’t puke. That’s as much bravado as I could muster after my first time flying upside down, around a loop and in other ways that defy common sense and subject the body to unnatural forces.
(2009/06/19)
MINNEAPOLIS — A breakaway Catholic group in Minnesota plans to ordain 13 priests on Friday, but they won’t be recognized by the Roman Catholic church.
(2009/06/19)
1 p.m. to midnight — carnival open; unlimited rides with an armband purchase from 1 to 7 p.m.
(2009/06/18)
Rudolf Karnath and more than 100 other steamboat captains packed the Winona Hotel in Steamboat Days’ early years.
(2009/06/18)
A Winona State University student wants to turn the former Winona Middle School auditorium into a nightclub and is asking city leaders to rezone the site.
(2009/06/18)
A recent population decline may mean more money for Houston, Minn., where leaders hope a downward population blip may spare the town from state-aid cuts announced Tuesday.
(2009/06/18)
Three historic organizations will be involved in one big move.
(2009/06/18)
In 1855, it didn’t take much to start a newspaper — a box of type, a stack of paper, a press, some ink and a guy to sell the ads to pay for it all. That’s about all there was to the Winona Republican when the first issue came off the press in a cramped back room on the second floor of a nondescript frame building at 114 Johnson St. tucked between the Park Hotel and Miss Fannie Hughes’ store. The Republican would stay at that location, now occupied by the Schyde’s Drinks and Whatnot parking lot, until 1868, rebuilding after the 1862 fire that turned 90 percent of downtown Winona to ashes and soot.
(2009/06/18)
He started as a crow and has ended up a beast. Yes, it’s been a varied acting career for Mark Roeckers. The 39-year-old Cotter High School math teacher stars in his 11th consecutive Home and Community Options summer musical with “Beauty and the Beast” today through Wednesday at Saint Mary’s University’s Page Theatre.
(2009/06/18)
Cheyenne Lynn Islam, 28, of Winona was sentenced Wednesday to 45 days in jail and five years of probation for hitting her sister in the face with a beer glass.
(2009/06/18)
Lee Newspapers ST. PAUL — A planned drawdown of the Mississippi River’s Pool 6 this summer has been canceled for the second straight year by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
(2009/06/17)
ST. PAUL — Gov. Tim Pawlenty will erase a deficit in Minnesota’s budget by making public schools wait longer for state aid checks and cutting aid to local governments, colleges and a slate of subsidized health care programs.
(2009/06/17)
Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Tuesday proposed state budget cuts that will trim funding to Winona-area cities, counties and colleges, while creating what he called a “day of reckoning” for the state’s soaring health care costs.
(2009/06/17)
St. Charles, Minn., was the only city in the state with more than 1,000 residents to escape cuts to local government aid under a plan announced Tuesday by Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
(2009/06/17)
PRESTON, Minn. — Judge Robert Benson considered declaring a mistrial Tuesday in the trial of accused killer Jack Nissalke after jurors heard a portion of a recorded interview that mentioned that key prosecution witness Rena Bambenek took a lie detector test.
(2009/06/17)
Winona’s 30-percent rental cap sets one standard for much of the city, but parts of the city’s core may need a customized approach, say some members of a task force that’s revisiting the rental cap.
(2009/06/17)
Karen Resch doesn’t have time for a perfect garden.
(2009/06/17)
Meeting in a school building now comes at a cost to community groups.
(2009/06/17)
Some area youths can thank federal stimulus funds for their green-focused summer job.
(2009/06/17)
Carnival: 4 p.m. to midnight, unlimited rides with an armband purchase from 4 to 10 p.m.
(2009/06/16)
PRESTON, Minn. -- Rena Bambenek testified Monday that Jack Nissalke, who is standing trial for killing Ada Senenfelder more than two decades ago, had a large cut on his hand and was looking for a knife in the early morning hours of June 6, 1985.
(2009/06/16)
Every community has its own celebration. In mid-June, Winona is all about Steamboat Days.
(2009/06/16)
Most events are at Levee Park unless otherwise stated.
(2009/06/16)
Paving new parking lots may become a thing of the past at Winona State University.
(2009/06/16)
Winona leaders will re-bid a contract to re-roof the public library, after attorneys for a La Crosse, Wis., roofing firm threatened to investigate a city council decision to award the job to a Winona company.
(2009/06/16)
U.S. Reps. Tim Walz and Ron Kind are working on aspects of health care reform that don’t get talked about as much as universal coverage -- cost and quality.
(2009/06/16)
After a year of planning, Trinona is history. The inaugural triathlon was held Sunday with Mother Nature smiling on more than 300 participants.
(2009/06/16)
Lauren Mikula, a senior at Winona State University, was crowned Miss Winona 2009.
(2009/06/15)
Angel Weisbrod placed 156th in the Trinona triathlon, and crossed the finish line smiling, her arms aloft.
(2009/06/15)
Winona firefighters want federal stimulus dollars to fund a planned expansion of the Central Fire Station.
(2009/06/15)
LA CROSSE, Wis. — World War II veterans Gayle Grim and Tony Gartner of La Crosse have been good friends since their children, Marsha Grim and Gary Gartner, began dating decades ago.
(2009/06/14)
Bob Stark didn’t lock his doors when he moved to the Lake Village Manufactured Home Community in 1973.
(2009/06/14)
The first full week of testimony in the murder trial of Jack Nissalke included a medical expert who said likely more than one person stabbed Ada Senenfelder to death and two of Nissalke’s former girlfriends who said Nissalke admitted to the killing.
(2009/06/14)
Ada Senenfelder -- The 40-year-old mother of five was found stabbed to death June 6, 1985. The prosecution says Jack Nissalke killed Senenfelder after she made incriminating statements that landed Nissalke’s associate James Bolstad in jail and failed in her attempt to later recant them. Senenfelder sometimes hung out and attended parties with Nissalke, Linda Parrish and the Bolstads, witnesses said, and one witness has described her as James Bolstad’s maid at the time of her killing.
(2009/06/14)
Hosting a garage sale is hard enough, but try planning one without a garage.
(2009/06/14)
The sidewalk on Johnson Street in front of the Winona Public Library was covered Saturday morning with an array of colorful pictures.
(2009/06/14)
ALMA, Wis. — A river slough that cost nearly $1 million to unclog is already filled with sediment just months after the project.
(2009/06/13)
Clean water is getting costly for five Winona-area municipalities that don’t meet federal drinking water standards.
(2009/06/13)
A redesigned Levee Park would honor two noted conservationists with Winona ties — Will Dilg and John Latsch — under a proposal reviewed at City Hall this week.
(2009/06/13)
A Goodview, Minn., woman sold prescription medications to a police informant in April from her apartment across the street from an elementary school, police said.
(2009/06/13)
A Stockton, Minn., motorcyclist “laid down” early Friday to avoid colliding with a car that cut in front of him on Hwy. 61, police said.
(2009/06/13)
Would-be B.B. Kings, Eddie Van Halens and Eric Claptons will have a new source for music next month when Winona-based Hal Leonard Corp. relaunches Guitar Edge magazine as a multimedia resource for guitarists.
(2009/06/13)
Whitewater State Park will hold the following programs today. All events begin at the Whitewater Valley Visitor Center unless noted.
(2009/06/13)
World Wide Knit in Public Day will be celebrated from 9 a.m. to noon today at the Winona Farmers Market, Second and Main streets.
(2009/06/13)
The 21st annual Pepin County Town and Country Dairy Breakfast will be from 7 to 11 a.m. today at the Joe and Jan Drier Farm, about two miles north of Arkansaw on County X just west of Durand, Wis., on U.S. Hwy. 10.
(2009/06/13)
The Women’s Resource Center, Ridgeway Learning Community and the Houston Community Gardens are the recipients of the Coulee Region Cooperative Community Fund’s third granting season in May.
(2009/06/13)
The Winona County Library Summer Reading Program starts Monday for area youths, toddlers through young adults, who are committed to reading 15 minutes daily for six weeks.
(2009/06/13)
The main bridge at Woodlawn Cemetery will be under construction starting Monday for about four to six weeks. Follow the detour signs.
(2009/06/13)
Christopher James Gervais and Erin Lee Oberton of Winona married May 30.
(2009/06/12)
PRESTON, Minn. — Ada Senenfelder was stabbed to death in 1985 by likely more than one person and struggled with her attackers before dying, a medical expert said Thursday.
(2009/06/12)
The Winona school district has ruled out building a new elementary school, but closing others remains a possibility.
(2009/06/12)
A parking lot will replace the now-demolished Chrysler Winona building downtown, though commissioners of Winona’s Port Authority seem reluctant to pay for something that could soon be built over.
(2009/06/12)
At 54, Joel Dennis probably didn’t expect he’d be spending his Wednesday evenings in a church, learning how to look for work.
(2009/06/12)
Dennis Jennings was worried. Three weeks before the deadline for the first Southeastern Minnesota Regional Juried Art Exhibit, there were only 15 entries.
(2009/06/12)
Beware the bicycles. And swimmers. And runners. The main hill of Garvin Heights Road and all roads surrounding Veterans Park will be closed Sunday to make room for the Trinona triathlon in Winona.
(2009/06/12)
Officials announced a second confirmed case of swine flu in Trempealeau County on Thursday, just hours after the World Health Organization declared the worldwide flu outbreak a pandemic.
(2009/06/12)
A Goodview, Minn., was convicted of burglary Thursday for stealing prescription painkillers from a neighbor after being stung several times by bees.
(2009/06/12)
LA CROSSE, Wis. — A La Crosse woman faces up to 15 years in prison after a jury Thursday rejected her claim she didn’t know her van fatally struck a pedestrian on New Year’s Eve.
(2009/06/12)
The Land of Lakes Choirboys of Minnesota will present a free concert at 7 p.m. today at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, 360 Main St.
(2009/06/12)
Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Thursday announced the appointment of Mark Peterson to the Minnesota Humanities Center Board of Directors.
(2009/06/12)
The 19th annual Houston County American Dairy Association’s Breakfast on the Farm will be 7 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the John and Karyl Diersen Farm, five miles east of Caledonia, Minn., on County Road 3.
(2009/06/12)
Army National Guard Pvt. Tracey Meyer, daughter of Geraldine and Mike Meyer of Caledonia, Minn., graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C.
(2009/06/12)
WASHINGTON — The Senate struck a historic blow against smoking in America on Thursday, voting overwhelmingly to give regulators new power to limit nicotine in the cigarettes that kill nearly a half-million people a year, to drastically curtail ads that glorify tobacco and to ban flavored products aimed at spreading the habit to young people.
(2009/06/11)
PRESTON, Minn. n A parade of prosecution witnesses Wednesday portrayed accused killer Jack Willis Nissalke as a knife-carrying hothead who talked about killing Ada Senenfelder before she died and bragged about the crime afterward.
(2009/06/11)
ST. CHARLES, Minn. n An April fire that leveled North Star Foods also robbed city government of revenue, and residents soon will offset the loss through higher tax and utility bills, local leaders said Wednesday.
(2009/06/11)
A St. Charles, Minn., man who killed a cat with an arrow expected to be found guilty Wednesday of a misdemeanor. Instead, Judge Jeff Thompson ignored a plea agreement and found the man guilty of felony mistreatment of animals.
(2009/06/11)
Winona leaders plan to meet next month with Buffalo County and Wisconsin officials over how to better manage troubled Aghaming Park, land owned by the city of Winona but located in Wisconsin.
(2009/06/11)
Some came for the food. Others, the petting zoo. Andy Clark was there for the barn.
(2009/06/11)
A drunken Winona man threatened his apartment manager with a dagger Tuesday afternoon after he found out he had been evicted, police said.
(2009/06/11)
A trial for Julie Jean Nissalke, wife of accused killer Jack Nissalke, was postponed indefinitely Wednesday until her husband’s trial concludes.
(2009/06/11)
Murl Landman smelled a stinky opportunity. A high school friend was working at a goalie training center in Edina, Minn., and one of his jobs was sharpening hockey players’ odorously sweaty ice skates.
(2009/06/11)
A man Tasered three times by police and later found with more than 20 grams of cocaine in his pocket was convicted Wednesday of drug possession.
(2009/06/10)
Plans for an industrial park near the Interstate 90-Highway 43 interchange are on hold again after Winona County commissioners said Wilson Township should guide the development.
(2009/06/10)
Wilson Township now controls its destiny when it comes to future development.
(2009/06/10)
PRESTON, Minn. — Jack Willis Nissalke talked about how easy it would be to kill Ada Senenfelder on the night of her death, left a party around the time she is believed to have died and later admitted to stabbing her to death, his girlfriend at the time, June Bolstad, told jurors Tuesday.
(2009/06/10)
The Lewiston-Altura school district may have found a solution to overcrowding in the district’s buildings.
(2009/06/10)
Levees protecting Rushford, Minn., may need a makeover to meet federal standards, Rushford leaders learned Monday night.
(2009/06/10)
High above Winona, atop a Bay State Milling Co. building on Second Street, live the fruits of Maggie Lubinski’s childhood labor and a symbol of a long recovery for a once near-extinct bird.
(2009/06/10)
Winona County Auditor Cherie MacLennan announced Tuesday she will retire in August after 23 years on the job.
(2009/06/10)
Winona school district clerical workers have accepted a one-year contract that freezes salaries and alters benefits.
(2009/06/09)
Five people have defrauded area Kwik Trip stores out of nearly $17,000 over the last few months by writing bad checks for gift cards and then using the gift cards to buy merchandise at other store locations, police said Monday.
(2009/06/09)
Starting today in Minnesota, it really is as simple as the advertising campaign says — click it or ticket.
(2009/06/09)
Attorneys for several Winona bars sued by a former bouncer who was stabbed in 2006 asked a judge to throw the suit out Monday because of a lack of evidence.
(2009/06/09)
Ray and Margaret Kiihne know a thing or two about collaborating. The couple has been married for 45 years and raised three children.
(2009/06/09)
Jurors had the day off Monday in the trial of Jack Willis Nissalke, who is charged with first-degree murder in the 1985 stabbing death of Ada Senenfelder. Prosecuting and defense attorneys, along with Judge Robert Benson, spent the day debating what evidence would be admitted as the trial moves forward.
(2009/06/09)
A proposed high-voltage power line through the Winona area may detour around the Mississippi River valley, based on a new proposal by energy companies seeking to build the line.
(2009/06/09)
A man accused of unintentional murder in the drug overdose death of a Winona woman last year challenged charges against him Monday.
(2009/06/09)
LA CROSSE, Wis. — Someone needs to give summer a wake-up call.
(2009/06/09)
Minnesota college students will receive more financial assistance after recent actions by both the federal and state lawmakers.
(2009/06/09)
The Winona school board will meet Thursday to discuss a demographics-building utilization study it received last month that recommended the district close four elementary schools.
(2009/06/08)
Moccasin game once banned, brought to life for Great Dakota Gathering
(2009/06/08)
Winona’s Port Authority is back to square one on a plan to build a dock in the city’s commercial harbor, after a company they hoped to partner with backed out of the project.
(2009/06/07)
Hundreds of Dakota attended the sixth annual Great Dakota Gathering and Homecoming on Saturday at Lake and Unity Parks in Winona.
(2009/06/06)
History has two sides, and Dennis Gill is a scholar of the side not found in schoolbooks.
(2009/06/06)
A Buffalo County official has resigned after bungling a grant process intended to upgrade the county’s 911 system.
(2009/06/06)
Two animal rights groups want to buy more equipment for a Winona Senior High School teacher who offers virtual dissection in her biology class.
(2009/06/06)
A Winona auto dealer plans to buy the remaining Chrysler inventory at Paul Busch Auto Center, a Wabasha, Minn., dealership dropped by Chrysler last month.
(2009/06/06)
Federal and state authorities from Minnesota and Wisconsin still have no idea what caused a 6-mile diesel slick Thursday on the Mississippi River.
(2009/06/05)
Wisconsin officials who oversee Aghaming Park say they’ve fired a “shot over the bow” at city of Winona leaders by warning the city to protect the park from vandals.
(2009/06/05)
PRESTON, Minn. — Prosecuting attorneys accused the defense of witness intimidation Thursday in the trial of Jack Willis Nissalke, saying the Winona Police Department is scrutinizing how a defense investigator questioned potential witnesses.
(2009/06/05)
Paul Moger hasn’t seen his farm since Thanksgiving, when he went for an all-terrain vehicle ride and never came home.
(2009/06/05)
A rewritten Winona County zoning ordinance is ready for a final round of scrutiny from county leaders.
(2009/06/05)
They start out as organic clay, but the American Indian portrait dolls Linda Duran creates end up looking real.
(2009/06/05)
A Winona woman suffered minor injuries in a head-on crash Wednesday afternoon that sent her car rolling into a ditch and required emergency crews to use the Jaws of Life to free her from the mangled vehicle.
(2009/06/05)
A Winona man who entered an unlocked home and sexually assaulted a sleeping woman was sentenced Thursday to six years and three months in prison for the burglary.
(2009/06/05)
Drought conditions improved last week in western Wisconsin, though much of north-central Wisconsin and southeast Minnesota remains dry.
(2009/06/05)
More than 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled into the Mississippi River on Thursday near Dakota, Minn., forming a slick that stretched 6 miles.
(2009/06/05)
An adult male was confirmed this week as Trempealeau County’s first H1N1 flu case.
(2009/06/05)
A land dispute in Houston County pitting property owners’ interests against the government’s right to control development has been resolved.
(2009/06/04)
PRESTON, Minn. — “Three times in the neck and once in the heart.”
(2009/06/04)
Minnesota’s charter schools are “rife with mismanagement,” according to a report from think tank Minnesota 2020.
(2009/06/04)
The Obama administration should think twice before handing billions more in aid to a bankrupt General Motors, says U.S. Rep. Tim Walz, DFL-Minn.
(2009/06/04)
Jade Fang grew up getting poked by needles. That’s what loving acupuncturist parents do when their child is in pain.
(2009/06/04)
LA CROSSE, Wis. — A deer-damaged car pulled into J&H Auto Body Shop on Monday morning, only 7½ hours into what experts describe as the worst month for vehicle-deer crashes.
(2009/06/04)
A plastics company has announced it plans to relocate six jobs to Lewiston, Minn.
(2009/06/04)
LA CROSSE, Wis. — Extra money will be available to organic farmers this year.
(2009/06/04)
RUSHFORD, Minn. — The Hwy. 43 south exit to Rushford on westbound Interstate 90 will close to traffic today as crews pave the exit.
(2009/06/04)
Hope Lutheran High School’s graduation was May 22 in St. Martin’s Lutheran Church’s sanctuary. Thirteen students graduated, and Creigh Crandall was valedictorian.
(2009/06/04)
A Pepin, Wis., man was seriously injured when he turned in front of a moving truck Tuesday night in Goodview, Minn., the Minnesota State Patrol reported.
(2009/06/03)
Matthew Mueller must be lucky. He’s never had chicken pox or a broken bone. The few times he has caught a cold or the flu, it happened on a weekend or during the summer.
(2009/06/03)
ST. PAUL — Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty erased one doubt about his political future while blowing open another, passing Tuesday on a third-term bid while declining to say if he’ll set his sights on the White House.
(2009/06/03)
The suspect in a Goodview trailer park stabbing was arrested Monday for robbing a man of prescription medications, police said.
(2009/06/03)
Retirement accounts at issue for teachers, paraprofessionals
(2009/06/03)
Ed’s (no name) Bar is going to be a funny place to be tonight. Hopefully.
(2009/06/03)
Police are investigating two car crashes that happened over the weekend.
(2009/06/03)
Winona County commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved a contract with its new administrator Duane Hebert, who is currently the administrator of Barron County, Wis.
(2009/06/03)
Winona County commissioners like the looks of a $6.8 million proposal to add and renovate office space for county employees.
(2009/06/02)
One of the Winona State University coaches seriously injured in a drunken driving crash in 2005 filed a personal injury lawsuit last month against the driver who caused the wreck.
(2009/06/02)
Winona property values are holding their own amid a nationwide downturn, a financial consultant told the Winona City Council on Monday night.
(2009/06/02)
A Plainview, Minn., man was arrested Friday after police seized marijuana plants, methamphetamine and components used to manufacture the drug from his home, the Wabasha County Sheriff’s Department reported Monday.
(2009/06/02)
The “O” in the “Big O” might just as well stand for over.
(2009/06/02)
ST. PAUL — There’s another reason for Minnesotans to rid their property of water-holding containers, including old tires, buckets and cans.
(2009/06/02)
Garvin Heights is a good reason to do Trinona. It’s also a good reason not to. The one-mile steep bike ride is one leg of Trinona, an inaugural triathlon June 14 in Winona. It’s the same stretch that Bicycling Magazine rated as one of its Top 100 Climbs in the United States — and also a favorite of three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond.
(2009/06/02)
LA CROSSE, Wis. — Kwik Trip plans to double the size of its bakery, about a $23 million project that’s expected to add more than 100 jobs at its support center on the North Side, a company official said Monday.
(2009/06/02)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Midway through Monday’s Minnesota Supreme Court hearing on the state’s overdue U.S. Senate election, Justice Alan Page asked what seemed a fitting pair of questions for a race full of chess moves.
(2009/06/01)
About 100 cheerful -- and hungry -- Winonans gathered at Windom Park on Sunday afternoon for a potluck picnic reminiscent of the good old days.
(2009/06/01)
The Winona Area Learning Center became a little more nature-friendly Friday. More than a dozen ALC students pitched in and helped plant gardens around the building.
(2009/06/01)
It would cost more than was previously announced to build more office space for Winona County employees, according to an architectural study the county board will consider Tuesday.
(2009/06/01)
The annual Buffalo County Dairy Princess contest will be held Thursday at Hilltop Bar and Ballroom, Fountain City, Wis. The banquet will start at 7 p.m., and the program will begin at 8 p.m. The public is invited to attend.
(2009/06/01)
Ronald L. Dillow, 38, of Chanute, Kansas, pleaded no contest in Buffalo County court to a felony charge of attempted second-degree sexual assault of a 16-year-old.
(2009/06/01)
The following blood donors have reached milestones during recent Red Cross blood drives in the Winona area.
(2009/06/01)
Jason A. Hilt, 25, of Winona, was in court May 20 on a felony charge of possessing a narcotic, Oxycodone, without a valid prescription March 9 in Fountain City. The case was continued to a hearing scheduled for June 24.
(2009/05/31)
As the U.S. approaches a milestone number of soldiers killed, we asked people their thoughts on the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Here they are, in their own words.
(2009/05/31)
Lisa and Tom Shonka knew they were in trouble when the water reached their knees.
(2009/05/31)
Duane Hebert has been a college dropout, a restaurant manager, an administrator under fire, and now an administrator in demand in at least three counties.
(2009/05/31)
Winona residents having a hard time keeping food on their tables have a new option for affordable groceries.
(2009/05/31)
The Buffalo County Board has approved two-year job contracts for unions representing courthouse office employees and paraprofessionals working in the human services department, though supervisors have said those contracts may come at the expense of nonunion workers.
(2009/05/31)
Little Goose Lake in Cochrane, Wis., is turning into a muck pond, and the Cochrane Village Board wants to start a community fundraising drive to save it.
(2009/05/30)
Jordan Murphy led a procession of tractors to Winona Senior High School on his last day as a senior three years ago this month.
(2009/05/30)
The 2-year-old boy injured in a crash that killed four people Saturday night has died, the Minnesota State Patrol reported.
(2009/05/30)
Police have arrested the final two suspects in a brutal mugging.
(2009/05/30)
PRESTON, Minn. — Opening statements in the trial of accused killer Jack Willis Nissalke have been delayed until at least Wednesday after an order issued by the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
(2009/05/30)
A man charged in more than 20 crimes asked a judge Friday to hear six of his seven cases individually in six different jury trials.
(2009/05/30)
The newest member of the Winona Police Department has medium-length brown and black hair, pointy ears, a long, pink tongue and answers to Neko.
(2009/05/30)
PRESTON, Minn. — Two men were injured in a car accident Friday morning near Preston.
(2009/05/30)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to designate a second site in Winona for material dredged from the Mississippi River.
(2009/05/29)
Winona County commissioners’ first choice for their next administrator — Barron County, Wis., administrator Duane Hebert — has taken the job.
(2009/05/29)
A Winona pastor convicted of having sexual contact with one of his parishioners was sentenced Thursday to 15 years of probation, ending a case that played out over six years.
(2009/05/29)
One of three men accused of unintentional murder in the methadone overdose death of a Winona woman last year pleaded not guilty Thursday to numerous charges against him.
(2009/05/29)
DAKOTA, Minn. — Ken and Pat Pape feel blessed.
(2009/05/29)
Lake Goodview will be landlocked no longer after Goodview leaders on Wednesday endorsed building a permanent flood outlet out of the lake.
(2009/05/29)
A Mondovi, Wis., man was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison for allowing a friend to have sex with a 12-year-old girl in a Winona hotel room in 2006.
(2009/05/29)
The case of a St. Charles, Minn., man accused of fatally wounding a neighbor’s cat with a bow and arrow will be decided by a jury.
(2009/05/29)
It’s all about family for Taylor Stoos. At 18, she’s had more brothers and sisters than years. The Rollingstone, Minn., resident’s family is a foster home, and more than 100 children of all ages have passed through its doors. She’s always been surrounded by family; it’s where she thrives.
(2009/05/28)
Winona school officials are mulling the recommendations of a report released Tuesday that calls for a dramatic reconfiguration of the district’s schools.
(2009/05/28)
PRESTON, Minn. -- Defense and prosecution attorneys will give their opening statements Friday morning in the trial of accused killer Jack Willis Nissalke, Judge Robert Benson said Wednesday.
(2009/05/28)
Commuters, be warned: Lane closures on Winona’s Interstate Bridge begin today.
(2009/05/28)
Pig guts and scalpel cuts were optional Wednesday in Sandra Bussian’s Winona Senior High School science room.
(2009/05/28)
Police have arrested one of three suspects sought in a brutal mugging earlier this month.
(2009/05/28)
A Winona man was sentenced Wednesday to nearly five years in prison for possessing more than 80 grams of cocaine.
(2009/05/28)
Tiffany Theis was diagnosed with breast cancer three days before Christmas.
(2009/05/28)
La Crosse County’s first swine flu case is a man older than 20, officials said Wednesday, and a second possible case in the county is being investigated.
(2009/05/28)
A Winona man charged with 20 crimes in the past year accumulated a new charge Wednesday.
(2009/05/28)
Winona swimmers must wait an extra week to make their first splash at the local pool because crews need more time to retrofit the Bob Welch Aquatic Center to meet new safety standards.
(2009/05/27)
A demographics-building utilization study conducted for the Winona school district recommends closing all four elementary schools within the city as quickly as possible. The study also suggests the district build a new facility.
(2009/05/27)
Prosecutors filed 24 felonies against a Winona man Tuesday accused of killing four people and injuring two others in a crash Saturday night.
(2009/05/27)
Warrants have been issued for the arrests of three men now charged with felony assault and robbery in a violent mugging.
(2009/05/27)
A 20-year-old woman fell to her death from the roof of a Kellogg, Minn., residence early Monday, in the area’s third death due to a fall this year, police said.
(2009/05/27)
Winona movie goers will see movies in a new dimension starting Friday when the Winona 7 Theatre shows “Up” in digital 3-D.
(2009/05/27)
A Lewiston, Minn., man sentenced to 99 months in prison for beating a woman and children with a toy bat lost an appeal Tuesday, according to the Winona County Attorney’s Office.
(2009/05/27)
The sight of a newborn fawn alone in Fran Oksness’ front yard caused passers-by to contract what Oksness jokingly calls “poor Bambi syndrome.”
(2009/05/27)
A proposal to restrict development on Winona bluffs would unfairly restrict the rights of property owners, local business leaders are telling city officials.
(2009/05/27)
The Winona County Sheriff’s Department is accepting sealed bids through today on several items, including three seized vehicles and an unmarked squad car.
(2009/05/26)
U.S. Army specialist Derek Brommerich had been to Winona’s Memorial Day program before. But 13 months in Iraq and a trip to Arlington National Cemetery gave Brommerich a new perspective on this year’s ceremony — and on the meaning of sacrifice.
(2009/05/26)
It’s a tight squeeze threading a 1,000-foot boat through the Canadian Pacific swing bridge across the Mississippi River at La Crescent.
(2009/05/25)
Pink will be the in color at today’s USMTS races at the Mississippi Thunder Speedway in Fountain City, Wis.
(2009/05/25)
A car accident early Sunday morning left one Winona man dead and three with minor injuries.
(2009/05/25)
Two people were hurt Saturday in an ATV accident near Altura, Minn.
(2009/05/25)
It’s nearly decision time for city leaders on a long-awaited proposal to restrict building on Winona bluffs.
(2009/05/25)
Kristen Nagle, 38, of Nodine, Minn., was injured in a single car rollover at about 4 p.m. Friday near Nodine. The Winona County Sheriff’s Department said the accident was on County Road 12, north of County Road 1, and that Nagle was pinned in the van and airlifted to Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, Wis., for non-life threatening injuries. Investigators believe alcohol was a factor and have referred Nagle to the Winona County District Attorney for test refusal.
(2009/05/25)
KOMODO ISLAND, Indonesia (AP) — Komodo dragons have shark-like teeth and poisonous venom that can kill a person within hours of a bite. Yet villagers who have lived for generations alongside the world’s largest lizard were not afraid — until the dragons started to attack.
(2009/05/24)
Looking for something to do this summer? Come to Winona. Or if you live here, stay put.
(2009/05/24)
Opening statements in the trial of accused killer Jack Willis Nissalke are expected to begin this week.
(2009/05/24)
ALTURA, Minn. -- It’s time to break out your pendulum, L-Rods and Y-Rods.
(2009/05/24)
SPRING GROVE, Minn. -- Movie theaters, especially new ones, have become rare in small towns.
(2009/05/24)
LA CROSSE, Wis. -- Who remembers Irwin Blackhawk? It’s been nearly 59 years since the 22-year-old corporal from Black River Falls died. His parents are long gone, as are his brothers and sisters. He had no wife or kids when he went off to Korea, and he never came home.
(2009/05/24)
Wisconsin lost more than 824 service members in the Korean War. The American Battle Monuments Commission lists names and basic information on its Web site, www.abmc.gov, but some entries contain errors — often about the service member’s hometown -- and many lack photos.
(2009/05/24)
The U.S. government spends about $105 million a year in its quest to recover and identify the remains of about 80,000 missing service members from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Cold War.
(2009/05/24)
Government jobs in Buffalo County may be cut to satisfy union contracts.
(2009/05/23)
Bluffview Montessori ran a clean sweep in the annual Steamboat Days button-design contest.
(2009/05/23)
A Goodview man was charged Friday morning with four counts of assault in a stabbing at a mobile home park.
(2009/05/23)
A woman was bitten by a snake and a man was cited for animal cruelty Thursday in a prank gone wrong, police said.
(2009/05/23)
Enrollment at many area schools is declining, but online public schools in southeast Minnesota continue to grow.
(2009/05/23)
LA CROSSE, Wis. — A steady stream of people walked Friday morning on and around the site outside a La Crosse home where, hours earlier, an estranged married couple lay after what authorities said was a murder-suicide.
(2009/05/22)
One man is in police custody after a stabbing early Thursday at a Goodview mobile home park, police said.
(2009/05/22)
A double stabbing Thursday morning at Lake Village Manufactured Home Community confirmed the fears of residents who recently have warned of increasing drug activity and disturbances there.
(2009/05/22)
Winona’s ailing Interstate Bridge will again undergo repairs after inspectors found concrete flaking from the bridge’s underside during a routine inspection.
(2009/05/22)
INDEPENDENCE, Wis. — The Independence Hotel Tap failed its last three fire inspections prior to a February blaze that killed three tenants, and the family of one of the dead has now filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the building’s owner.
(2009/05/22)
Plans for an industrial park near the Interstate 90-Highway 43 interchange took a hit from Winona County leaders on Thursday, though their decision may mean little in less than a month.
(2009/05/22)
A Lewiston, Minn., firefighter convicted of stealing more than $2,500 from his own department was sentenced to probation Thursday and ordered to pay back what he took.
(2009/05/22)
A 25-year-old Holmen, Wis., man was sentenced Thursday to five years of probation for assaulting a 13-year-old boy.
(2009/05/22)
The cuts to the Winona school district are over — for now — but bigger changes could be impending.
(2009/05/22)
The Women in Business named Colleen Peplinski as this year’s Woman of the Year on Thursday evening at the Winona Area Veterans Center.
(2009/05/22)
The Winona Area Chamber of Commerce recognized area businesses Thursday during the annual Business Appreciation Luncheon held at Jefferson’s Pub and Grill-Riverside Center.
(2009/05/22)
The 80th Winona Memorial Day program will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in Veterans Memorial Park. The ceremony is sponsored by American Legion Post 9 and Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1287 and Auxiliary, Disabled American Veterans, Hiawatha Chapter 35 and Auxiliary, and 40/8 Voiture 580. The program will be presented by Sgt. Tim Brincks, president of the Memorial Day Association, and John M. Jacobson Sr., presiding officer of the Hiawatha Chapter 35, D.A.V. The program includes:
(2009/05/21)
The next time you’re waiting for road construction, remember: It’s been worse.
(2009/05/21)
The Daily News asked five Minnesota lawmakers in the Winona area to say what they loved and hated about the 2009 legislative session, which ended Monday. Here’s what they said:
(2009/05/21)
If Natalie Marg is heart-broken about her school’s impending closure, she isn’t showing it.
(2009/05/21)
Managers of Lake Village Manufactured Home Community are breaking Minnesota law by being unavailable to residents in case of after-hours emergencies, Lake Village residents and Goodview Mayor Jack Weimerskirch say.
(2009/05/21)
Two Winona residents assaulted a man Tuesday while he was out of jail on work release.
(2009/05/21)
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(2009/05/20)
Winona education, health and government leaders thought the bad news would stop coming from St. Paul when lawmakers stopped debating.
(2009/05/20)
St. Paul failed St. Charles, says the town’s mayor.
(2009/05/20)
The only grocery store in Lewiston, Minn., is closing.
(2009/05/20)
A former police chief of Harmony, Minn., died when his pickup truck crashed into a house Monday afternoon, the Fillmore County Sheriff’s Department reported.
(2009/05/20)
Fire engulfed a large rubbish pile Tuesday morning at a scrap yard owned by the mayor, the Winona Fire Department reported.
(2009/05/20)
When Terry Litvan looks at an old wooden dish rack, she sees a file holder. A wooden box with four mysterious holes becomes a home for magazines. An old bench is a bookshelf.
(2009/05/20)
LA CROSSE, Wis. — Now that the statewide smoke-free workplace bill has been signed into law, it’s worth noting it didn’t pass on a party-line vote.
(2009/05/20)
There’s not a whole lot of green left at Paul Giel Field since work began to remodel the Winona school district’s track and field facility.
(2009/05/19)
The pilot and passenger of a plane that crashed into a stand of trees Sunday in Winona County escaped with only cuts and bruises after a textbook emergency landing, Winona Airport manager George Bolon said.
(2009/05/19)
PRESTON, Minn. — The murder trial of Jack Willis Nissalke has been moved once from Winona to Preston, Minn.
(2009/05/19)
When it comes to the former Wilkie site in Levee Park, even a plan to plant flowers stirs controversy with the Winona City Council.
(2009/05/19)
Gov. Tim Pawlenty has green-lighted a Winona County proposal to partner with the private sector to build a commercial wind turbine.
(2009/05/19)
Before the days of GPS, Mapquest and Google maps, there were backstaffs, octants and quadrants.
(2009/05/19)
Two suspects wanted on charges of burglary and assault for an early morning May 10 incident in Houston County were apprehended and charged last week.
(2009/05/18)
PICKWICK, Minn. -- A single-engine plane crashed violently into a stand of trees Sunday on the edge of a field in rural Pickwick, Minn. Its two occupants were uninjured.
(2009/05/18)
Jury selection for the trial of accused killer Jack Willis Nissalke starts today in Preston, Minn.
(2009/05/18)
Police arrested a St. Charles, Minn., man Saturday for drunken driving -- the ninth time he’s been arrested for that offense, according to the Winona County Sheriff’s Department.
(2009/05/18)
RUSHFORD, Minn. -- Chris Robison doesn’t want to reveal the name of the new restaurant he plans to open in town late next month.
(2009/05/18)
RUSHFORD, Minn. -- A young boy pushed his face into the space between the fence posts, his mouth agape as his eyes scanned the new slide and swings inside the Tot Lot section of the Creekside Park playground. Nearby, another group of young children wiggled anxiously while waiting for their chance to try out the twisty slide and tire swing.
(2009/05/18)
Winona leaders haven’t decided how to permanently remake the former Wilkie site. But until then, they may have a short-term plan: Let a thousand flowers bloom.
(2009/05/18)
TREMPEALEAU, Wis. -- Eve would tremble every time anyone approached her when she first arrived at Murriel Decker’s foster home just before Christmas 2007. She cowered and quivered, her eyes filled with terror, whenever a gentle hand was extended her way. Her life had taught her to distrust people.
(2009/05/18)
CALEDONIA, Minn. -- Houston County commissioners last week signed off on a new design for the county’s proposed criminal justice center that does not conflict with nearby Veterans Memorial Park.
(2009/05/18)
Police Tasered a drunken Winona man Saturday morning after he “took a fighting stance” when officers woke him up from a nap. The man was sleeping on the living room couch of someone else’s house, police said.
(2009/05/18)
A Winona woman who drove her car under a crossing gate and struck a moving train early Saturday on Grand Street will not be cited for the incident, police said Sunday.
(2009/05/18)
Police arrested a Minneapolis man Thursday night after he nearly caused a wreck by pulling out in front of a police car.
(2009/05/18)
A drunken Minnesota City, Minn., man was found hiding in Lake Winona by a police dog Saturday morning, shortly after he ran from the vehicle he had been driving.
(2009/05/17)
A train and car collided early Saturday on Grand Street after the driver experienced a medical complication and drove under a crossing gate, police said.
(2009/05/17)
Chad Gregerson opened Tatu Royale along Third Street in Winona about a year ago. He wasn’t required to get any type of specialized permit from Winona County or the state of Minnesota. None of his tattoo artists has a license. And he wasn’t required to have an official from the county or state inspect his business before it opened.
(2009/05/17)
She watches over Winona. Her sister watches over Misato, Japan.
(2009/05/17)
Winona may be an ocean away from France, but at least Florian Regnaudot has grapes, vines and wines to remind him of home.
(2009/05/17)
Tiny changes are coming to Minnesota State College-Southeast Technical. Nano-size, to be exact.
(2009/05/17)
Despite the precarious economy, Saint Mary’s University is offering a full schedule of performing arts for its 2009-10 Page Series. SMU Performance Center general manager Patrick Grace was concerned there would have to be fewer events this year but says featuring more regional acts helped round-out the schedule and save costs.
(2009/05/17)
MINNESOTA CITY, Minn. — They still wear top hats in Minnesota City.
(2009/05/17)
LA CROSSE, Wis. — A La Crosse man is being extradited to Minnesota, where he is wanted on a warrant from Wisconsin.
(2009/05/16)
A $463,600 grant will aid 122 of the employees laid off from the Herff Jones facilities in Lewiston, Minn.
(2009/05/16)
NEW YORK — General Motors on Friday told about 1,100 of its dealers — one in five — that they would be dropped by late next year, adding to the economic pain radiating from the beleaguered Detroit automakers to cities and towns across the country.
(2009/05/16)
Erik Brom has been talking trains for years, even as railroads threatened to go the way of the dodo.
(2009/05/16)
State officials are investigating court claims by a former Winona County appraiser, who says the county under-assessed the tax value of two properties, including one owned by former commissioner Dave Stoltman.
(2009/05/16)
Winona County commissioners have selected Duane Hebert, administrator of Barron County, Wis., to be Winona County’s next administrator.
(2009/05/16)
LA CROSSE, Wis. — A Winona man is accused of a rolling domestic dispute on a Wisconsin highway after he drove for 2 miles on the shoulder alongside a car carrying his estranged girlfriend and their 2-year-old son.
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