ALTURA, Minn. – A gang of thieves might have figured that nobody would miss the bell from the St. Anthony Church. The church had been closed several years by the Winona Catholic Diocese because of declining enrollment and a shortage of priests. Then over the weekend came an anonymous call, apparently from one of culprits, that the bell was being returned. Who knew it was missing? In any event, Winona County Sherif Ron Ganrude reported tyat the bell is back undamaged from its unexplained sojourn who knows where.
St. Anthony’s. A block off the main drag at 119 First Street Northeast.