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Secretary of State Cord Byrd today recognized Florida Main Street’s two newest communities

A challenge of all rural communities is that of logistics, leaving families a long distance from urban communities with convenient, high-tech services

The Hello Summer! Hastings Main Street Market event on June 25 could only be classified as a raging success.

July 4, 1776, marks the day in America’s history when the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The newly restored building at 301 N. Main was designated as a “significant cultural resource.”

A new exhibit chronicling a controversial period at the University of Minnesota raises the question. The names behind the most egregious acts are some of the best known at the U, including former President Lotus D. Coffman and Edward Nicholson, who served as the U’s first dean of student affairs. Both served during a turbulent time when issues of race, equality, war and students’ rights roiled the campus. Both have prominent campus buildings named after them. Now, as controversies over Conf...

By Editor | February 10, 2021 By mark Evans Garry Nelson would like to see one more project completed soon. The Ste. Genevieve County presiding commissioner hopes to see the gazebo and landscaping at the south end of the new county parking lot completed as soon as weather allows. In April 2019, local historian Bob Mueller and local business owner Lawrence Myers, who is also an architect, provided plans for a bicentennial plaza for the Market Street edge of the property, complete with a memorial...

Written By: Josh Verges / St. Paul Pioneer Press | 6:53 pm, Feb. 20, 2019 × U of M logo ST. PAUL — The names of four former University of Minnesota leaders should be scrubbed from Twin Cities campus buildings, according to a task force appointed by President Eric Kaler. A 125-page report made public Wednesday, Feb. 20, says the four white men, who promoted racist and anti-Semitic policies at the university, were not simply a product of their times. Rather, they discriminated agains...