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Springfield Riverside Days will be celebrated June 23, 24, 25 and 26, 2016. During a meeting last Wednesday evening, volunteers proceeded with plans for the celebration.
There will be no carnival at this year’s celebration. The Springfield Chamber of Commerce has developed a committee that is...
Sunday, February 28 - 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at the Springfield American Legion.
Two Southwest Minnesota industries — manufacturing and agriculture — have been growing in recent years and have outperformed national and industry expectations and provide a strong platform for continued growth.
Agriculture is the industry with the highest share of employment in the region (15...
“I like Teddy Bears,” says Loren Groff, who has 138 little stuffed animals in his home at Cottonwood Ridge Apartments.
“It’s an addiction,” he says.
He goes to garage sales and buys all the Teddy Bears that he finds.
Then he gives them away.
He likes to make children happy.
“It started when I...
Springfield Public Works / Streets Departments used its “new” grader to move snow following last week’s blizzard. The City of Springfield recently traded in a 1974 Caterpillar grader for the 2009 John Deere 670G grader. Streets Department Superintendent Gene Haas said the grader “runs like a...
Area residents have been the target of aggressive and threatening phone calls by criminals impersonating Internal Revenue Service Agents, who tell them to pay for owed taxes
The IRS has seen a surge of these phone scams as scam artists threaten police arrest, deportation, license revocation and...
Springfield’s Justin “Hoover” Hillesheim, 33, and his sister, Brittany Hillesheim, 23, were among a crowd of more than 14,000 people who last Tuesday evening heard Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders fire up a crowd at St. Paul’s RiverCenter with populist appeals on issues ranging...
Springfield Area Food Shelf had a successful third year, distributing 71,911 pounds of food and fresh produce, an average of 36.2 pounds of food per individual served. The Board of Directors of the Springfield Area Food Shelf met at its regular meeting January 25 to review the past 12 months. The...
by Scott Thoreson,
Mayo Clinic Health System
in Springfield administrator
Welcome to 2016! It has been an interesting winter. First, it was abnormally warm — the warmest December since 1913 — and then we finally received some snow on Christmas Day. While weather is always a topic of interest, so...
Three major issues during the 89th Minnesota Legislative Session will be transportation, taxes and bonding, said local legislators — Representative Paul Torkelson (R-Hanska) and Senator Gary Dahms (R-Redwood Falls), during a town hall meeting in Springfield Friday.
Rep. Torkelson, who is...
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