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Riverside Days draws large crowds during celebrations

Springfield celebrated Riverside Days over the weekend. Despite hot, humid conditions with threats of storms on Saturday evening, all scheduled events were successful and went on with no summer weather interruptions.

Riverside Days June 23-26 in Springfield

Riverside Days plans shaping up

Plans for Springfield’s Riverside Days are shaping up for next week’s celebration with some new events as well as the all-time favorites. The celebration will get underway Thursday evening, June 23, with an ice cream social in Brown’s Park. Springfield Community Theatre is bringing the Minnesota...

Bruce Beussman (Prologus) and Austin Grossenburg (Senex) rehearse the song, Everybody Ought to Have a Maid, for Springfield Community Theatre’s upcoming production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum that will go on stage August 4, 5 and 7.

Cast rehearsing for SCT production

With the cast in place, rehearsals for Springfield Community Theatre’s summer musical production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum are underway.

Summer means increased railroad traffic

June is Rail Crossing Safety Awareness month and the Minnesota Department of Transportation and Minne-sota Operation Lifesaver remind citizens about the importance of safety around trains.

Fountain, plaza installed at Community Center

The patio at the Springfield Area Community Center has been extended and a new cast iron fountain has been installed on the plaza. The landscaping project includes plans to extend the flower garden westward along the bank of the Big Cottonwood River. This picture was taken Thursday as workers...

Library to show Smart Play Spot

Library to show Smart Play Spot today A new Smart Play Spot has opened at the Springfield Public Library. During the past several years, Smart Play Spots have been developed and installed all across Minnesota to encourage children’s literacy development through hands-on, multi-sensory activities...

Salutatorian James Hoffmann and Valedictorian Ashley Larson

'Don't worry', say class leaders

“Don’t worry” ~ be happy, said class leaders speaking to classmates, family and friends during Springfield High School commencement Friday evening. Valedictorian Ashley Larson spoke about life lessons learned in high school. Rather than worrying about money, spend time creating memories and a...

Chinese visitors at Jack Larson Seeds — at the center of the picture is Yu Yong, executive director and president of Zonergy. Second from left is Eugene Kremener of Brazil, Agro representative / director of North America and South America. Johnny Larson is third from left. Evan VanDerWal is at the right.

Jack Larson Seeds tests cutting-edge ag product

Chinese entrepreneurs recently spent a day in our community learning about American agriculture. The delegation representing Zonergy, a Chinese energy conglomerate, visited Jack Larson Seeds to learn more about seed treatment and tour the facilities — hoping to build similar facilities in Beijing...

Springfield High School Class of 2016 class leaders — Valedictorian Ashley Larson and Salutatorian James Hoffmann — will deliver the commencement address.

Commencement set for Friday

Springfield High School will conduct its 2016 Commencement Friday evening, May 20, starting at 7:00 in the school gymnasium. Fifty-one students — 26 young women and 25 young men — will walk through the school corridors one last time as students, march into the gymnasium to the music of Pomp and...

Springfield awarded $463,050 Small Cities Development Grant

Springfield’s application for a 2016 Minnesota Small Cities Development Program grant has been approved for funding in the amount of $463,050. The good news was communicated to Springfield on Tuesday, May 3. The grant funded through the Minnesota Department of Employment and Econ-omic Development...