New Prague Area Schools Superintendent Tim Dittberner updated members of the school board on the use of "flexible learning days" the district has taken due to weather. The update came during the board’s regular meeting Monday, Feb. 25.
"It’s nice to have these available to us," he said. "We’ve had them for four years and until this year we hadn’t had to use one. This year, we’ve used seven."

Snow and wind didn’t deter about 150 youngsters from showing up Sunday, Feb. 24, to the 20th Annual Wood Duck House building event at the Knights of Columbus Hall in New Prague.
Sponsored by the Scott-Le Sueur chapter of the Minnesota Waterfowl Association, youngsters were given the opportunity to build wood duck houses to take home and put out in wildlife areas to attract wood ducks for nesting.

The Czech Heritage Club is hosting a “Dumpling Make and Take” at 7 p.m. Tuesday March 12, at the New Prague Library.
Anyone ages 9 and up is welcome to attend. Hana Matousek, a native of the Czech Republic, will show how to make a fast and simple kind of dumpling that the participants will make and take home. Hana has been active in different food events, especially with the Czech and Slovak Sokol Minnesota, and has taught many cooking and bargain classes.

One is a slob. The other is a compulsive neat freak.
Circumstances force them to share an apartment.
Let the laughter begin.
Curtain Call Theatre brings “The Odd Couple, Female Version” to the area for two weeks, beginning Friday.
The Neil Simon play has been a crowd-pleaser since it debuted on Broadway in 1965. Twenty years later, Simon wrote a female version which debuted on Broadway. In Curtain Call’s version, Olive (slob) is played by Heather Jenness, and Florence (neat freak) is played by Linda Gare.

New Prague Area Schools will be closed, Monday, February 25, 2019. It will be a blended learning day.
No Kids Company, WRAP or Preschool.
Fitness and Aquatic Center will be open regular hours.

New Prague Area Schools will start two hours late on Monday, February 25th. Road conditions will be reassessed in the morning as plows are able to work on clearing roads.

High winds took out a transformer jumper, causing a brief power outage in part of New Prague Sunday, Feb. 24.
New Prague Utilities General Manager Bruce Reimers said the outage occurred around 12:30 p.m. and affected just a few customers in the area of First Ave. SE. Power was out between 45 minutes to an hour before crews were able to make repairs.

Despite orders from a Le Sueur County judge and a retired, court-ordered judge, the Le Sueur County Historical Society (LCHS), has not turned over all its records.
A motion was filed on February 8, 2019, to have Le Sueur County Judge Mark Vandelist address the many missing documents and hear reasons why they haven’t been produced.

Some of the ways of measuring time will be exhibited at the New Prague Library,400 Main St. E, as part of the New Prague Area Historical Society’s display “It’s AboutTime.” A variety of calendars and time pieces make up the display that will be at the library through the middle of May.

Author Julia Cook was a special visitor to Eagle View Elementary School in Elko New Market on Thursday, Feb. 21. She visited all three of New Prague Area Schools’ elementary schools talking to students about the things they can learn and reading a few stories from the 90 books she has written. Students at Eagle View, Falcon Ridge and Raven Stream elementary schools read her book “Bubble Gum Brain” as part of I Love to Read Month. For more see an upcoming print issue of The New Prague Times. (Patrick Fisher Photo)

It’s a 25-year tradition that feeds several hundred people in one night and helps feed many more throughout the year.
The St. Wenceslaus Church Soup Kitchen group held its annual Soup supper Monday, Feb. 18, in the church basement. This year’s event served 316 guests, who enjoyed either chili, vegetable beef or chicken noodle soup.

Traffic was still moving and people were out the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 20, although it was slow going as a storm blanketed New Prague’s Main Street with snow. Snow began falling around 2 a.m. Wednesday with a total of 5 to 9 inches of snow were being forecasted for the day. The New Prague area was under a winter storm warning until 6 p.m. this evening. Winds are to be coming from the east at 5 to 10 mph and then come from the south to southeast in the afternoon. The National Weather Service was advising drivers to plan for extra traveling time.

New Prague Area Schools will be closed on Wednesday, February 20 due to inclement weather. This closing includes all K-12 grades, Preschool, Kids Company and the WRAP program. This will be a blended learning day for K-12 students.

MANKATO, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Transportation is preparing motorists for forecasted heavy snowfall rates overnight through Wednesday. Weather conditions will limit visibility and make travel difficult in south central Minnesota.
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for much of southern Minnesota, and advises motorists to plan for extra travel time, especially for the Wednesday morning and evening commutes.
MnDOT snowplow operators will do their part to make highways safe and motorists should remember to:

Gene Vavra, left, begins a demonstration on cleaning a fish on Saturday, Feb. 16, at the New Prague Sportsman’s Club Youth Fishing Seminar. Held at the Central Education Campus in New Prague, there were 130 children that attended the annual event. Youngsters could also participate in a casting contest, minnow races and learn about fishing regulations. For more see an upcoming print issue of The New Prague Times. (Patrick Fisher Photo)

It was a double date night for, clockwise from upper right, Jake Schoenecker and his wife Sam and Jodi Schoenecker and her date Jeff Kehrer, during the Valentine’s Day Chamber Bar Bingo at Giesenbrau Bier Co. in New Prague on Thursday, Feb. 14. The weekly night of bingo is held by the New Prague Chamber of Commerce and will be at Giesenbau Bier Co. for the coming weeks. For more see an upcoming print issue of The New Prague Times. (Patrick Fisher Photo)