Week’s summary: September 10, 2022
RIVER: Iowa state agency against river rail trunk COLLEGES: WSU buys former railroad freight [...]
Week’s summary: September 3, 2022
GOVERNANCE: Walz: Tax update needed on college loans FAMILY: $1.2 million grant to Winona [...]
Week’s summary: August 27, 2022
ENVIRONMENT: To Walz: Crack whip to get fish-kill answers ENVIRONMENT: New fish-kill in Mississippi [...]
Week’s summary: August 20, 2022
ENVIRONMENT: Hunt for clues continues in fish kill GOVERNANCE: Initial 2023 County budget: Up [...]
Week’s summary: August 13, 2022
POLITICS: Finstad takes brief victory lap POLITICS: As predicted, governor race pits Walz Jensen [...]
ALMANAC: August 2022 Minnesota special election
Minnesota Congressional District 1 To fill the unexpired term of Jim Hagedorn to January [...]
ALMANAC: August 2022 Minnesota primary election
Minnesota Congressional District 1: 100% of precincts reporting. Jeff Ettinger (Democrat), 48,257 (92%). To [...]
Week’s summary: August 6, 2022
COLLEGES: WSU trims faculty further to make ends meet CRIME: Ex-Winona jailer to prison [...]
Week’s summary: July 30, 2022
GOVERNANCE: Ellison to let pro-abortion ruling stand HIGH RISK: Hazmat crisis: Wrecked fuel truck [...]
Week’s summary: July 23, 2022
SCHOOLS: Board delays vote on $86 million school upgrades POLITICS: DFL talking up Ettinger, [...]
Week’s summary: July 16, 2022
LAKE HERO: Senator pulls floundering canoeist from lake CRIME: Fatal stabbing lands a 12-year [...]
Week’s summary: July 9, 2022
SCHOOLS: Poll: Winonans nod yes to $87 million school plan ART: Ukraine owl art [...]
Week’s summary: July 2, 2022
DOWNTOWN: Levee hotel project wins $601,000 state grant LAKE PARK: City puts $300,000 into [...]
Week’s summary: June 25, 2022
COLLEGES: Tuition up 3.5% at WSU, 3.4% at Southeast COLLEGES: WSU dorm plan wending [...]
Week’s summary: June 18, 2022
ARTS: Winona Shakespeare: Rocky 2022 start now rockier THE GOOD LIFE: Among small cities, [...]
Week’s summary: June 11, 2022
COLLEGES: New dorm on WSU drawing boards COLLEGES: Committee OK’s downtown UM-R dorm SEXUALITY: [...]
Almanac: Minnesota weather extremes
ST. PAUL, Minn. – From National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration records: > Highest temperature [...]
Almanac: Wisconsin weather extremes
MADISON, Wis. – From National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration records: > Highest temperature ever: [...]
Week’s summary: June 4, 2022
ARTS: Staging tiff explodes: Shakespeare’s “Taming” scuttled CRIME: Slaying at judge’s house was “targeted” [...]
Week’s summary: May 28, 2022
POLITICS: Democrats stick with Walz-Flanagan ticket POLITICS: Ettinger, Finstad face off for MN-1 Congress [...]
Ballot: 2022 MN-1 congressional special primary
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Candidates in the special primary election in southern Minnesota are [...]
Week’s summary: May 14, 2022
COLLEGES: SMU quits 11 programs, drops fifth of profs ENVIRONMENT: Mega-feedlot ban again before [...]
Week’s summary: May 7, 2022
COLLEGES: WSU mid-year enrollment at new low COMMERCE: Gasoline breaks $4 in Winona, nearby [...]
Week’s summary: April 30, 2022
ART: To Christie’s: “Washington Crossing Delaware” GOVERNANCE: $3.2 billion to frontline workers, businesses ART: [...]
Remember when: The costly Highway 43 dream
WINONA, Mnin. -- Federal highway planners decided in the 1950s to build Interstate 90 [...]
Week’s summary: April 23, 2022
STORM: Wind rips roof off Fish and Game depot HEALTH: Walz: Poultry safe on [...]
Week’s summary: April 16, 2022
GOVERNANCE: County rolls dice on Pickwick fire safety CRIME: Inside Taboo nightclub at mass [...]
Week’s summary: April 9, 2022
COLLEGES: WSU paid record $55,000 for Che gig GOVERNANCE: Inside-the-vest body cams for Winona [...]
Week’s summary: April 2, 2022
COMMERCE: Chamber awards $1.8 million in CoVid aid GOOD DEEDS: Foundation funds anti-stigma project [...]
Week’s summary: March 26, 2022
COMMERCE: First tow slices through Lake Pepin ice UKRAINE: Winonan released by his Russian captors [...]
Week’s summary: March 19, 2022
POLITICS: Open MN-1 Congress seat: So many choices SCHOOLS: $5 million deal: Cotter buys [...]
Open MN-1 Congress seat: So many choices
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Twenty aspirants for Congress plunked down the $300 filing fee [...]
Week’s summary: March 12, 2022
POLITICS: Carnahan to seek husband’s MN-1 seat in Congress? COMMERCE: Canada-bound train wrecks along [...]
Week’s summary: March 5, 2022
COMMERCE: Walz axes state contacts with Russia HEALTH: Mask guides eased for Winona, Fillmore [...]
Week’s summary: February 26, 2022
GOVERNANCE: City ponders “open mic” for citizens COMMERCE: Isle la Plume for cruise ship [...]
Remember when: Trains ran a Mayo hospital car
WINONA Minn. – The Chicago & Northwestern beefed up its Winona service in 1950 [...]
Week’s summary: February 19, 2022
COLLEGES: WSU budget crisis: More buy-outs to trim faculty POLITICS: Minnesota Congressman Jim Hagedorn [...]
MN-1 Congressional district: How now purple cow?
WINONA, Minn. – Southern Minnesota’s First Congressional District, with the death of Jim Hagedorn [...]
Week’s summary: February 12, 2022
GOVERANCE: State coffers ran hot in January GOVERANCE: State offers tornado repair funds GOVERNANCE: [...]
Week’s summary: February 5, 2022
GOVERANCE: Study leans to East Rec for new police, fire HQ SAFETY: Pedestrian struck, [...]
Week’s summary: January 22, 2022
ARTS: On drawing boards: Downtown concert hall GOVERNANCE: Walz: Let’s share state surplus all [...]
Remember when: Before Big Macs
WINONA, Min. – In 1852, when river captain Orrin Smith platted Winona, it could [...]
Week’s summary: January 15, 2022
GOVERNANCE: Search for Winona County exec on hold GOVERNANCE: Mayor defers to county on [...]
Week’s summary: January 8, 2022
HEALTH: Mayo axes 700 staff for vax non-compliance POLITICS: Congressman tests positive for CoVid [...]
Week’s summary: January 1, 2022
CRIME: Plea: Not guilty in Rollingstone car-dragging case SOCIAL JUSTICE: Mourners, activists rally on [...]
Remember when: Illuminating the past, lighting the way
WINONA, Minn. – After fire destroyed most of downtown Winona 1862, there developed a [...]
Week’s summary: December 25, 2021
HEALTH: Winona hospital wait-lists for Guard help POLITICS: Lindell off the Minnesota campaign trail [...]
Week’s summary: December 18, 2021
FRIGHTFUL STORM: Winds, tornadoes ravage way through region TWISTER TOUCHDOWS. Tracking the Winona County [...]
Week’s summary: December 11, 2021
ECONOMY: Economists’ crystal ball: Happy days here again AGRICULTURE: Farm subsidies to 534 Winona [...]
Wayzata leads early boys basketball ranking
PAYNESVILLE, Minn. – The Wayzata Trojans boys basketball team was ranked Number 1 among [...]
Farm subsidies to 534 Winona County farms
WASHINGTON – Federal farm subsidies went to 534 Winona County famers in 2020, according [...]
Week’s summary: December 4, 2021
AGRICULTURE: Daley dairy expansion denied again HEALTH: Winona Health pauses staff vaccination mandate HEALTH: [...]
Week’s summary: November 27, 2021
GOVERNANCE: City Council chooses to slash jobs, services HEALTH: Minnesota Guard to rescue nursing [...]
Week’s summary: November 20, 2021
SCHOOLS: Two schools to be retrofitted for air quality CRIME: Murder charged in Winona [...]
Week’s summary: November 13, 2021
COMMERCE: Army Corps hires trucks to move Homer muck COMMERCE: 28 to 30 units [...]
Week’s summary: November 6, 2021
POLITICS Lawsuit: Illegal campaign funds to Wisconsin’s Johnson SCHOOLS: Winona maestro named Teacher of [...]
Week’s summary: October 30, 2021
COMMERCE: Luxury boutique hotel at downtown Exchange Building COLLEGES: Fewer and fewer: Vanishing college [...]
Week’s summary: October 23, 2021
GOVERNANCE: Winona Council splits on welcoming Afghans ARTS: Festival back indoors with Shakespeare triad [...]
Week’s summary: October 16, 2021
COLLEGES: WSU enrollment still on downward spiral SCHOOLS: School Board alarmed: Staff spread too [...]
Week’s summary: October 9, 2021
COLLEGES: SMU sets dedication for multi-discipline building HEALTH: Winona hospital relieving overload elsewhere POLICE: [...]