News stories from Hutchinson, Minnesota

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From Mike Housman
Chair, Meeker County Republicans, Dassel

From Raymond Norton
Hutchinson

Cheers and thank you to all of my classmates (and their parents) in Mrs. Braml’s room 88 at West Elementary for donating to Pennies for Haiti. We collected about $55!

Lorna Ewert, 91, of Hutchinson, died Monday, March 15, 2010, at Birchwood Hospice House in Hutchinson.

Edwin Schultz, 89, of Hutchinson, died Sunday, March 14, 2010, at his home.

Harland H. Emans, 78, died Saturday, March 13, 2010, in Hutchinson.

Dan Kaiser, U of M Extension Soils Nutrient Specialist offers the following discussion fertilizer practices related to a late corn harvest last fall, corn ground that could not be tilled in the fall,

Two items can be checked off the list of things to be done before construction begins this year on a new 120-bed nursing home along Hutchinson’s south side.

A dairy farm doesn’t have to be a 2,000-cow factory to be successful, but small ones need a high rate of return from each cow to provide the income needed today.

Hutchinson’s municipal airport is already named after a local aviation pioneer — Ken Butler. Now local aviators want to see the airport’s terminal named after one of their own — Joe Dooley.

John W. Hawkins, 77, died Wednesday, March 10, 2010 in Hutchinson.

Hutchinson’s city-owned Liquor Hutch once again had strong sales in 2008, according to the Analysis of Municipal Liquor Store Operations released last week by State Auditor Rebecca Otto.

You’ve received the notice in the mail, so you know it’s coming. In a few days you’ll receive your 2010 Census form.

Tuesday’s McLeod County Board meeting might result in the taming of wildlife areas.

From Sen. Steve Dille
District 18, R-Dassel
and Sen. Amy Koch
District 19, R-Buffalo

Clerk Cheryl Bleil said 21 Lynn Township residents attended what was essentially a “a pretty quiet” annual meeting Tuesday afternoon.

The inspiration for Kate Opatz’ new Kid Cents secondhand clothing store at Hutchinson Mall was her disappointment in not finding such a store when she moved here four years ago from Albuquerque, N.

Allen Garding, 60, husband of Marjorie, of Hutchinson, died Monday, March 8, 2010, at Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital in El Dorado, Kan.

Victor Kolbaske, 74, of Winthrop, died Monday, March 8, 2010 at the Hutchinson Community Hospital in Hutchinson.

This year’s race for the District 18 Senate seat is proving to be like no other in recent memory. With Republican Sen.

From Laurie Goodwater
Hutchinson

From Rep. Lyle Koenen
District 20B, DFL-Clara City

By Sgt. Jacalyn Sticha of the Minnesota State Patrol

Goebel Fixture Co., a Hutchinson-based retail interiors manufacturer, has acquired the assets of Environments, a company in Minnetonka, from SW Products Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Stylmark Inc

By Nathan Winter
Extension Educator – Agricultural Productions Systems
McLeod/Meeker County

By Mark Seeley,
a climatologist with University of Minnesota Extension

Oliver Schwarze, 93, of Hutchinson, died Thursday, March 4, 2010, at Burns Manor Nursing Home in Hutchinson.

A workshop for livestock producers utilizing and selling manure as well as crop producers purchasing manure is coming to Glencoe and Litchfield.

Join the Master Gardeners for an evening of gardening education, fellowship, and spring planning at the first Meeker County Master Gardeners “Gardeners Gala Event,” 6 to 9 p.m.Tuesday, March 16, a