The WEM girls basketball team played two of the top teams in Section 2AA last week and finished with a split.
The Bucs defeated Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial (LCWM), a 16-win team, 62-44 Tuesday, Feb. 13. Three days later a 20-win JWP team came to Waterville and edged WEM, 54- 48, avenging and earlier season loss to the Bucs.
WEM is now 10-6 in the Gopher Conference and 14- 11 overall heading into the post-season playoffs, which will begin next week. Seeding will take place Friday, Feb. 23.
The Gopher Conference West Division Champion JWP boys basketball team handed the Buccaneers an 84-52 loss Friday, Feb. 16 during Parent’s Night in Janesville.
The Bulldogs are currently 19-5 overall and 12-1 in the conference. WEM is 10-11 overall and 8-5 in the conference. Tuesday they played Maple River, the team they are tied for second place in the conference with. WEM will host Cleveland Thursday, Feb. 22.
The Bucs also played a nonconference game Tuesday, Feb. 13 and were defeated by Norwood-Young America (NYA), 62-56.
Lucille Gregor, age 94, of Waseca, passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 8, 2024, in Waseca with her family by her side.
Born on September 8, 1929, in rural Waterville, Minnesota, Lucille was the daughter of Alfred and Esther (Stoering) Haase. She was baptized, confirmed, and attended school at St. Peter’s “Bell” Lutheran Church in rural Waterville. She graduated from Waterville High School in 1947. Lucille married Bernard Gregor on September 20, 1950. He preceded her in death on November 18, 1972. Together they had two children, Bonnie and Leon.
Helen C. Boese, age 92, of Morristown, died on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, at Benedictine Living Community, Owatonna.
Funeral services will be held at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Waseca, on Saturday, February 17, 2024, at 11 a.m. with the Reverend Michael Grannis officiating. Visitation will be at church for two hours prior to the service on February 17th. Interment will be at Riverside Cemetery, Morristown.
Christine “Chris” Anna Schultz, age 74, of Waseca peacefully passed away surrounded by family on Thursday, February 8, 2024, in Waseca.
Paul Jefferson “Jeff” Stephens, age 76, of Faribault, MN, and formerly of Elysian, MN, passed away on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, at North Memorial Hospital in Robbinsdale, MN.
A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, March 2, 2024, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m at the Parker Kohl Funeral Home & Crematory, 1725 Lyndale Ave. N., in Faribault with a time of sharing beginning at 12:00 noon.
For online tributes and complete obituary visit www.ParkerKohlFH.com.
Lorraine Ann (Wandersee) Harty, age 88, of Cannon Falls, died peacefully at home surrounded by family on Thursday evening, February 1, 2024 after a long battle with cancer.
The Le Sueur County Historical Society will suffer two big body blows in 2024 when two long-time officers step down from their positions. Dr. Ruth Collins is ending a fouryear run as LCHS secretary, and Bonnie Reak is wrapping up a similar four-year stint as the organization's treasurer.
LCHS bylaws dictate no one can serve more than four consecutive years in the same office. Both Collins and Reak have reached that plateau.
It is kind of ironic that a benefit about the winter weather will be returning during the nicest winter weather in the past number of decades.
After four years without, the Waterville Chamber of Commerce Whine About Winter event will be held Saturday, Feb. 3 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Waterville Event Center.
The event will feature a Craft Beer and Wine Tasting, 50/50 Raffle and Meat Raffle.
There will be a short presentation by J & L Bottles, local restaurant owners, and food vendors at 5:30 p.m. Wine and Beer Tasting begins at 6 p.m.
Any way you divide it, four million miles is a huge number. That is 160 trips around the Earth, that is traveling to the moon and back eight times, and that is the number Jeff Geyer has driven his tractor-trailer without accident over the last three decades.
That monumental achievement was recognized on Jan. 23, when Geyer was named the Minnesota Trucking Association (MTA) Driver of the Year for 2023.
The WEM girls basketball team gave the Class A No. 6 rated Hayfield squad all they could handle Thursday, Jan. 25 in Waterville.
The Bucs used an eightpoint scoring run to eliminate a nine point deficit midway through the second half against the Vikings.
Alayna Atherton scored a pair of baskets and Addison Condon and Ashlyn Pelant added baskets during the eight-point run.
With 507 numbers expected to run out of numbers by early 2025, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission approved 924 as an additional area code for the current geographic region that covers the current 507 area code.
The new 924 area code is an overlay area code or an area code that covers the exact same region as another existing area code. This means that there will be no change to existing numbers within the 507 area code.
In preparation for the addition of the 924 area code, all customers located within the current 507 area code should prepare for 10-digit dialing.
One of social media’s beautiful features is that it quickly reminds you of whatyou were doing a year ago.
My posts from last January feature disgruntled sel-fies of me standing in mydriveway with salt and a pitiful electric snowblower that I thought would be enough. It was not.
By the end of last winter, there was a solid two feet of snow in my yard. The ice walls that formed from shoveling my driveway were so formative, that I began reading George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series to seek a suitable comparison
in literature.
Frank Louis Hoehn, age 95 yrs was called home to Jesus on January 8, 2024, in San Antonio, Texas. He was born July 30, 928 to Clare Hoehn and Marie Loeffler of Eagle Lake, Minnesota.
Frank met his sweetheart, Marlene Theresa Phillips, at a church dance in Los Angeles. They were married May 14, 1960.
A loving husband, father, and provider, Frank worked in the aerospace industry and retired from Rockwell Industries. His passions were cars, reading westerns, going to polka dances, as well as road-tripping across the U.S.
Jill Lynn Roemhildt, age 56 formerly of Elysian died on Thursday, January 18, 2024, in Maple Grove, MN.
