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by CHRIS ROGERS The council chambers at city hall were packed last Tuesday for a public input meeting on the future of Winona’s Friendship Center and the East End Recreation Center (ERC). The city is developing a proposal for a new Friendshi... Full Story
by SARAH SQUIRES Rollingstone, Madison, and Central elementary schools are on the verge of being sold by sealed bids after the Winona Area Public Schools (WAPS) Board voted to shutter Rollingstone and Madison and remove programs from Central. At i... Full Story
by CHRIS ROGERS When Winona first put deer in a pen on Prairie Island in 1961, deer parks were all the rage. Arcadia, Galesville, and Blair all had deer parks, and local newspapers ran updates when a doe was expecting fawns or when a mean buck had... Full Story
by CHRIS ROGERS Like a hunter posing with a trophy buck, Casey Mann smiled for a picture in front of the yawning semitrailer door. Inside were 11,000 pounds of steel, aluminum, and other metals — raw materials for his welding students to pra... Full Story
by CHRIS ROGERS Caitlin Doyle-Smith’s side gig as a thrift store reseller began with an epiphany on the road. She and her now-husband Zack Smith were living in a van, traveling from bar to bar, when Caitlin got a wise idea to supplement thei... Full Story
OPINION
by Dr. Sarah Lallaman, pediatrician at Winona Health Vaccines are undoubtedly one of the most commonly contested subjects, yet vaccines are one of the most successful achievements in modern medici... Full Story
EDITORIALS
by Judge Dennis Challeen It was decades ago when I first read it and I cannot remember the source but I’ll relate it as best I can: “When I was a child I dreamed of going to Shangri-... Full Story
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
The Saint Mary’s University Performance Center will host a closing reception for Sharon Mansur’s visual installation, “Cedar Tree: DISTILLED,” on Tuesday, April 24, at 6 p.m. “Cedar Tree: DISTILLED” reflects ke... Full Story
On Saturday, April 21, at 2 p.m., museum volunteers Frank and Jamie LaBreck will discuss the history of the Knights Templar at Castlerock Museum in Alma. The Knights Templar were founded in 1119 as a military order to protect pilgrims on their jou... Full Story
The popular fairy tale “Cinderella” will be brought to life on April 20-22 at Saint Mary’s University by the Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts (MCA) Dance Repertory Company. The performance features Saint Mary’s alumnus Jaro... Full Story
Being that April is National Poetry Month, sponsors of the annual Great River Shakespeare Festival/Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest chose to hold the contest kick-off event for 2018 on Tuesday, April 10. Hosted at the Blue Heron with music by Flutistry,... Full Story
Local students ages seven to 18 are invited to participate in a week-long theater experience on April 23-28 in the musical production of the Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre version of the classic tale, “Aladdin and his Magic Lamp.” ... Full Story
The Winona Arts Center Print Studio “RiverBed Press” will hold a free children’s workshop, Earth Day – Earth Expressions, on Saturday, April 21, from 1-3 p.m. Participants will make Gyotaku prints from rubber fish replicas. Th... Full Story
River Arts Alliance (RAA) invites the public to celebrate its capstone event for the HBC Fence Art Project on Friday, April 20, at 4:30 p.m. in the parking lot of HBC (by the fence). The Winona community has helped with this project in many ways,... Full Story
SPORTS
Winona High School senior student and baseball player Mitch McMurl is pictured surrounded by his teammates and coach as he signs his college letter of intent to attend school and play baseball at RCTC in Rochester. RCTC Head Baseball Coach Steve Huck... Full Story
Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota will break ground this May on a new $704,000 baseball clubhouse, made possible by a generous lead gift from an alumnus. In honor of his experiences at Saint Mary’s, both in school and on the field&s... Full Story
by BEN MCLEOD On Monday afternoon, Winona Senior High’s boys and girls track and field teams competed against seven other regional schools at the St. Mary’s Gostomski Fieldhouse. The Winhawks mingled with hundreds of student athletes f... Full Story
by BEN MCLEOD Winona wrestling will lose one of its best competitors in recent memory as senior Jack Vaselaar ended his high school career placing fifth in the 145-pounds weight class at the State Wrestling Tournament on March 3 at the Xcel Energy... Full Story
by BEN MCLEOD The combined Winona Senior High School (WSHS)/Cotter swim and dive team made an big splash at the Minnesota High School League Class A meet late last week in the University of Minnesota Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center. Winona finished... Full Story
Winona U10 girls youth hockey team competed in the District 9 End Year Tournament on March 3-4 in St. Peter, Minn. The U10 team, with an overall District 9 season record of 13-3-3, placed third in a 4-2 victory over Owatonna on Sunday. The team has h... Full Story
The Cotter boys varsity basketball team caught the Cardinals on Friday, February 23. The Lewiston-Altura Cardinals kept the score close, but the Ramblers were on the ball, ending the first with a nine-point lead and the second with six. Cotter took t... Full Story
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