Forced leaves start for thousands at USAID under a Trump plan to gut the foreign aid agency
WASHINGTON (AP) — Forced leaves began in Washington and worldwide Friday for most employees of the U.S. Agency for ...
YOU, YOUR KIDS & SCHOOL: Creating safe virtual connections for kids
Social distancing, by its very nature, has caused us to be apart from those in-person human connections that we took for granted. After six weeks of being isolated from others, many are starting ...
Downtown Litchfield street reconstruction ahead of schedule
Good weather and few interruptions have helped progress on the downtown Litchfield street reconstruction project. So well has work gone that reconstruction of the U.S. Highway 12/State Highway 22 ...
‘Humble leader’: Tim Wiebe retires after decades in Chaska public service
Sitting modestly on a chair, the outgoing fire chief turned slightly, so as to not directly face the dozens of people who showed up that day to honor him. After all, he said, that day wasn’t ...
Learning an important leadership skill: pivoting
A good leader knows how to be flexible and adapt to change. That’s a lesson students in the Hutchinson Leadership Institute this year have learned first hand. “You did what great ...
Doors for worship services are opening once more
It was a rainy, gloomy Sunday morning May 24, but that didn’t seem to dampen bright spirits at the front doors of Riverside Church on Hutchinson’s west side. “We are a really lively ...
Local photographer captures Twin Cities riots with camera and interviews
Photography and telling people’s stories is a passion for Tanner Schaaf. The 26-year-old man from Kingston who was also a student at New Century Academy in Hutchinson for a year has been ...
Hutchinson Public School administrators look ahead to an unclear school year
Minnesota schools are busy developing plans to deliver education in the 2020-21 school year – three, to be precise. The three plans aren’t new. They’ve been on the radar of ...
Hutchinson City Council: How they voted
Members of the Hutchinson City Council unanimously made the following decisions at their July 28 meeting: DONATIONS: Approved a $150 donation from Our Savior’s Lutheran Women’s Guild ...
The Maiers Family Farm of McLeod County will carry on with fourth generation
When Tom Maiers’ grandfather Henry purchased his family’s 153-acre farm in northern Stewart back in 1919, it cost him $125 an acre. When the land was first purchased in 1868, it was ...
Hutchinson City Council adopts new logo and tagline from branding initative
What do you think of when you think of Hutchinson? For Chandlerthinks, a Tennessee-based marketing and branding company the city hired to help with a branding initiative, the answer was “A ...
Hutchinson classrooms won’t look the same this year
Plenty could change by the time school starts Aug. 31, and even after as schools react to state mandates regarding the delivery of education in the face of COVID-19. But regardless of what ...