Avon city leaders want answers to due-diligence questions about a proposed community center. Council members reviewed drafts of a proposed project memorandum of understanding and a conveyance …

Barb Mergen and granddaughter, Ella Mergen, collaborated on their donation to the 2026 Holy Family School Snowball auction — a garden-yard bucket.   Barb, on Jan. 28, counted 28 …

ALBANY — Minnesota-based Benedictine has welcomed Mother of Mercy Senior Living in Albany to its family of older adult living communities. The Most Rev. Patrick Neary, Bishop of the Diocese of …

Melrose Area High School duo interpretation speakers Ella Erdmann and Zoe Hoeschen and extemporaneous reading speaker Emily Sand earned first place in their categories Jan. 31 during the Underwood …

SAUK RAPIDS — The cast and crew of Albany Area High School’s one act play “We Are the Sea” earned second place during section competition Jan. 31 at Sauk Rapids-Rice High School in Sauk …

Three fire departments responded to a barn fire north of Avon Jan. 28. The structure was deemed a total loss and some animals died.  Stearns County deputies and the Avon Fire Department …

The Melrose Area Public Schools Board accepted a revised fiscal year 2025-26 budget Jan. 26 during a monthly meeting at the school in Melrose.  Business manager Stephanie Uittenbogaard said …

A recipe for grasshoppers is taped to an inside kitchen cupboard door in Karl and Geri Meyers’ rural Meire Grove home. It was passed down from Gary and Irene Marthaler and Tom and Theresa …

Albany Area Schools is proposing seven-digit budget cuts to stay viable while continuing to provide area students with a quality education. However, it is not about to make these decisions without …

Minnesota residents can show support for their preferred candidates, raise an issue that is important to them, influence who the party will endorse for offices and meet people in their community by …