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The protracted drought in the area has prompted the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to name Scott and Le Sueur counties and several neighboring counties as disaster areas.
Scott, Le Sueur, Carver, Sibley, Dakota, Hennepin and Ramsey counties have been designated as primary counties eligible for...
Art Wann photo
A motorcyclist on East Main Street was injured in a crash at the roundabout at Columbus Avenue Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 1. The motorcyclist, a 72-year-old man from St. Louis Park, was heading east when he crashed at the roundabout. He was wearing a helmet. The man was assisted by New Prague...
Tyler Kistner, the Republican candidate for the Second Congressional District seat held by incumbent Rep. Angie Craig, a Democrat, was in New Prague at the 1319 Woodfire Tavern Tuesday evening, Nov. 1, after The New Prague Times went to press. Kistner stressed to supporters the importance of...
Local residents will have a chance to cast their ballots for local, county, state, and school board candidates during the Tuesday, Nov. 8 state general election.
Waterville residents will have a race for two city council positions and four Tri City United School Board members. They will also be...
The three cameras are located at the front of themes, on the side and at the rear to capture images of drivers running the stop sign extended from the driver’s side of the school bus. (John Mueller photo)
When a school bus driver opens the door to the bus, allowing children to disembark, the bus driver expects an oncoming vehicle to obey the stop sign extended from the bus. Because the bus driver’s attention is focused on the children. The information needed to punish the offending driver is most...
Crews were working to install a new roadside digital sign for New Prague High School the morning of Thursday, Oct. 20. Some of the funds for the sign came from a $200,000 donation made to New Prague Area Schools. For more on the donation see this week’s issue of The New Prague Times. (Mark Slavik...
According to the Minnesota State Patrol there were two fatalities in a three vehicle crash that happened around 6:05 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 17, along Highway 19/13, east of New Prague. According to a crash report from the State Patrol drivers Heather Nichole Nelson, 43, and Jordan Cole Bailey, 38,...
Amy Oliver of New Prague with her children Avery, right, and Regan were out getting their pumpkin at the Pumpkin Express on Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Gopher State Railway Museum. Located north of New Prague, the museum had pumpkins children could choose and families could ride the train and caboose...
