Month: June 2010

The Annandale Fourth of July parade will be later than normal and lacking its hometown high school marching band, but it still promises to be a good show.   Delayed from its normal 10 a.m. start […]

Finances will force Annandale and other school districts throughout Minnesota to look at the possibility of consolidating with neighboring districts in the next few years, Supt. Steve Niklaus says.  He raised the issue at a joint […]

Friends remembered Ella Geardink last week as the hard-working longtime owner of Geardink’s Resort on Cedar Lake, who loved helping others and enjoyed sports, baking and a good laugh.  Geardink, who was honored as Wright County’s […]

You may have noticed two little girls with a sign on the corner of Norway Drive and Kendale Avenue last week.   It was a warm summer day so maybe you thought they were selling lemonade […]

Note: Most events are held at the Annandale Municipal Park. Thursday, July 1  – Carnival opens at 6 p.m.   – Annandale High School Jazz Band performs from 6 to 7 p.m. in the park on the […]

Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has reminded voters who will be away from home or otherwise unable to make it to their polling locations on Tuesday, Aug. 10, that they can vote absentee in […]

When employees with a long tenure in the county retire, it isn’t unusual to present them with a retirement plaque in honor of their years of service to the county.   But, the Tuesday, June 22, […]

The wastewater treatment plant in Albion Township, shared by the cities of Howard Lake, Annandale and Maple Lake, has received an award for excellence from the League of Minnesota Cities.  Information about the award was given […]

With budgets tight and money in short supply, Wright County is doing whatever it can to cut costs and create revenue streams.   At the Tuesday, June 22, meeting of the Wright County Board, the county […]