Entries by Region Nine

Feasibility study to determine specifics of Czech Heritage Trail

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If plans fall into place, more than a common school district will connect Le Center, Montgomery and Lonsdale. A proposed biking/walking path will literally connect the three communities. The concept for, the path, called the Czech Heritage Trail, came into being last year. Mark Preissing, while working as community education director for Tri-City United Schools, […]

Broadband can be life or death for rural areas: How are we doing?

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NORTH MANKATO — The threat to rural Minnesota used to be measured mostly by the lack of good paying jobs needed to keep young people staying in or moving to small towns. Bill Coleman says the presence or absence of dependable, speedy broadband service is now the key to rural Minnesota’s success or failure. “Even […]