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Hastings' building official, Tom Bakken, looks forward to winter every year. An avid skier, he spends much of his free time on the slopes when they're open. This year, he set himself a goal: ski 58 times - once for every year he's been alive. He didn't start the 2012-2013 winter...

Utility work on the Hastings bridge next Wednesday and Thursday, May 8 and 9, may cause traffic delays. The work will restrict traffic to a single lane in both directions of Hwy 61 between Fourth Street and Highway 10 between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. each day. The Minnesota Department of...

All Hastings public schools are running two hours late today, May 2. All ECFE classes are cancelled. Kids Kampus is open.

In 2002, the Hastings community joined together to pay tribute to the life of Nick Clare. Clare, a Hastings native, was a senior at Montana State University in Bozeman when he lost his life in a car accident. Following his death, his family and friends organized the first annual Nick...

The Rivertown Lions 21st annual citywide garage sales will be held Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4. More than 80 garage sales are scheduled. Look for the bright pink signs. Items for sale includes clothing, furniture, tools, books, knick knacks, children's items, collectibles and...

It was only a generation ago when we could assume that most youth would progress successfully and painlessly through adolescence into adulthood. Our community was smaller. We knew the teens, and it seemed the vast majority made it. Sure, we remember some kids who struggled. But, as...

Next weekend, Hastings High School students will put on a show that's very different from ones they've done in the past. This year's spring musical is "Once Upon a Mattress." More than 35 students are involved in the cast, technical crew and orchestra. The musical, which features...

There are 34 first-graders and 34 seventh-graders at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School. That probably was the first inclination this prayer service,"God Counts," was going to be unique and special. "The SEAS seventh graders do a prayer service each year, but this is the first time...

All Hastings public schools are delayed two hours today, April 23, due to the snowstorm that hit the area Monday night and Tuesday morning. Kids Kampus will open as scheduled or as soon as staff is able to arrive. There are no ECFE/ECSE or community education classes today.

During a gun show Saturday afternoon at the National Guard armory in Hastings, a handgun was accidently fired. Nobody was injured. During the show, a vendor was showing a customer a handgun. The customer asked the vendor how to disassemble or field strip the weapon. The vendor inserted...

The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy of St. Paul, and the Environmental Integrity Project of Washington, D.C.

A century well lived ... and still going strong. Helen Gergen was born April 10, 1913, to Paul and Emma Endres. She grew up on a farm in rural Hampton with her parents and siblings. This week, she turned 100 years old. Helen attended a rural grade school which was just on the corner of...