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Sisters recall life at Lux Farm Supply

Like many small Minnesota towns, Albany had numerous implement businesses years ago. Replicas of three – Schiffler Farm Equipment, Lux Farm Supply and Peternell Implement – have been constructed on the Stearns County Pioneer Club grounds in Albany and two of them will be open during the Sept. 14-17 Albany Pioneer Days in rural Albany. The Schiffler Implement building was showcased for the first time in 2022, with Lux Farm Supply this year and Peternell Implement slated for 2024.

Pure happiness

One-year-old Nile Luxem is changing lives.

A career behind the wheel

Rodney Ebnet has spent most days over the past 28 years behind the wheel of a Holdingford school bus, transporting students to school as the sun rises and back home after a day of learning.

Alma mater amenity

Isaiah Gilk, 14, of Greenwald, saw a need at his grade school alma mater, St. John’s-St. Andrew Catholic School, and addressed it.

Sowing seeds of faith 150 years

Art “Buddy” Thober still has his confirmation book he received when he was confirmed with 12 classmates in 1940 at Immanuel Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in Farming Township.

Spring Hill grotto anniversary evening

People gathered on the east lawn of the Church of St. Michael in Spring Hill early evening Aug. 15, crickets chirping in the background. With a slight breeze and cooling temperatures, it was a perfect night for an outdoor Mass in this peaceful setting with the cemetery in the background.

Albany’s Hillcrest now Bear Crest Lounge

Terry Torrence’s nickname is “Ter-Bear.” He used that bear twist when naming his business – Bear Crest Lounge-Family Restaurant in Albany – complete with a bear on his logo.

Canning connection

Dave Hemmesch mashed cooked apples through a cloth-covered colander, straining the juice into a bowl early morning Aug. 24, while his and wife Cindy’s children, Agnes, Lucy and Marcus, watched. The juice was poured into pint jars.

Tour advocates for rural Minnesota projects

A bus carrying Senate Capital Investment Committee members Aug. 15 took a left off of Interstate 94 traveling south over the bridge in Freeport. It was their first stop on a three-day northwest Minnesota tour of potential 2024 bonding bill projects.

Continuing Clark’s vision

A flouring mill, a brewery, an egg drying operation, a cheese processing plant and now a retail and apartment complex.

Ready for the future

By later this year, electric and hybrid vehicles could be charged in Albany.

The best of beef

Adam and Alex Wilwerding are returning to the Minnesota State Fair.

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