Hastings Star Gazette

New Trier crash Six months after a one-vehicle crash killed a Cannon Falls man near New Trier, the Minnesota State Patrol has charged a Hampton man in connection with the crash. Keri James Gesme, 27, has been charged with criminal vehicular homicide (driving with a blood-alcohol...

The Hastings Star Gazette relaunched its website Wednesday with a new design

Dan Greil and his family have enjoyed the past 22 years living in Hastings, but now there will be a change. They have sold their home on Vermillion Street and will move to St. Paul. The move means Dan Greil will have to resign his seat on the Hastings School Board. He was first...

Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) announced that it needs many volunteers on a steady basis throughout the summer to meet promised meal shipments to 70 countries around the world. As of Wednesday, FMSC needs an additional 4,000 volunteers to meet its goal by the end of August....

The Hastings Culver's restaurant, located next to Cub Foods along General Sieben Drive, has a new owner. A Chanhassen resident, Mark Omann has worked for Culver's corporate side for the past nine years as a regional franchise partner. As of June 1, he started down a new career path...

PRESCOTT -- A rollover accident on the Hwy. 10 bridge at Prescott temporarily closed the highway as police and emergency personnel assisted a woman injured in the crash. Authorities were notified of the accident, said to be just onto the Minnesota side of the crossing, at about 7:50...

The Hastings City Council will hold its next meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, June 17. Here's a look at what's on the agenda. A new police officer, Matthew Hedrick, will be sworn in and welcomed to the city. Two presentations will be given. One will recognize Eagle Scout Ben Bloomstrand...

Get ready to get your dance on - for a mile and a half. Black Dirt Theater is holding a "Dancing 2K," a unique event to raise funds for the community theater's upcoming production of "Annie." The idea came out of one of Black Dirt's brainstorming meetings. One of the members suggested...

The door has been opened for a new art-centered development in Hastings. Last week, representatives from Artspace, a non-profit arts development organization, came to Hastings to look at several properties that could potentially be renovated into usable art and artists' space. Artspace...

Students at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School were honored at a recent awards ceremony. Awards were presented as follows: President's Award for Educational excellence - Fifth grade recipients Christian Brenny, Andy O'Brien, Monica Calkins, Josie Jenson, Luke Harris. President's Award...

The top academic graduates at Hastings High School have been announced. 4.0 grade point average for four years - Megan Braun, Sara Leifeld, Hannah Sieh, Sarah Zeien. 3.935 grade point or better over four years - Kayla Brown, Haley Fox, Elizabeth Hardy, Sarah Hughes, Kaylynn Johnson,...

To the editor, Last week, the Hastings Prescott Area Arts Council (HPAAC) hosted a two-day conversation addressing the role of the arts in a community's civic life and economic development. Approximately 200 local residents participated in one of six meetings with Artspace, Inc.,...

To the editor, The voters of Minnesota should be very concerned. Our legislature recently passed one of the largest tax increases in Minnesota history. If you listen to those behind the increase, they are trying to tell us that it is for our own good and for the good of the state....