Edie Schmierbach

ECHO Food Shelf client Kimberly Hansen loves to cook and prefers to use fresh produce in her homemade dishes.

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VINE Hot Meals On Wheels A home-delivered noon meal is available each weekday in Mankato and North Mankato city limits and Eagle Lake.

Michelle Kaisersatt has plans for what to say when she picks up a telephone receiver located in a secluded spot in the arboretum at Gustavus Adolphus College and calls her late husband, Dale.

When Hurricane Helene hit several southern states earlier this fall, the storm’s surge, wind damage and inland flooding resulted in at least 230 deaths.

Question: Every once in a while, I notice some vehicles stop in the road at the railroad tracks when nothing is coming. Can I pass them when they do this?

MANKATO — Several area musicians, artists and local vendors will gather Friday to raise funds for an organization that provides care to people whose health is being impacted by war,

ST. PETER — St. Peter Library patrons interested in growing flowers and vegetables soon will have an additional resource to the gardening books and magazines already available on the shelves.

Holiday lights contest returns NORTH MANKATO — An annual contest has begun for residents of North Mankato who decorate the exteriors of their homes during the holidays.

ST. JAMES — The origin of St. James' annual American Red Cross drive may not be common knowledge today — but the word is out about the Thanksgiving Day tradition that offers a sweet reward for giving blood — pumpkin pie.