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The Wood Lake Community Club hosted a pancake feed fundraiser on Saturday at the Wood Lake Community Center. Photo Submitted The Community Club has new lime green t-shirts thanks to donations.

At a special meeting held Tuesday morning, April 19, the ECHO Charter School Board approved the resignation of board member Katie Gullickson and approved her immediate hire as a paraprofessional for the school. Gullickson is already working with grades K-12, with a focus on K-1, filling the void left in the wake of the departure of another para.

Minnesota’s Machinery Museum in Hanley Falls held its annual meeting Friday evening in the Hanley Falls Fire Hall. The meeting was the first to be held since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March of 2020.

This weather pattern is getting old, isn’t it? Of course, we had one mild day on Saturday as temperatures climbed into the low to mid-70s across much of the area. In southern Minnesota, temperatures were even warmer there on Saturday.

When I was growing up in the early 1980s, we had a weekly newspaper in our town. There was a woman assigned to cover our little neighborhood. I remember her calling each week to ask my mother what was new in our family. Did Jeremy make the honor roll this quarter? Had we gone on vacation recently? Did we get a new pet? She would take this information from anyone in the neighborhood who was willing to share it and would write a column each week. When the paper came out on Wednesdays, my mother was always excited to read what was going on in the neighborhood. Everyone on our street knew each other. We played outside with the kids every day until dusk. My parents were in a bowling league with our neighbors. We had a block party in the street in the summer. When a new family moved in everyone welcomed them and introduced themselves. I guess you could say it was a great community.

The Lakeview School held a father/daughter dance for Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade elementary students last week. Photo by Karen Berg .