Marvin M. Slafter, 81, of rural Mabel, died Tuesday, July 29, 2025, at his home.

Ronald Duwayne Ekker, who passed away peacefully on July 6, 2025, at the age of 90, was a beloved husband, father, coach and basketball visionary.

Elvin Clifford Paulson, age 84, of Rushford, Minn., died Sunday, July 27, 2025, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Home in Rushford.

During the Civil War, President Lincoln conferred with Grant on an Epps plantation (Appomattox Manor) in Virginia, from which Grant commanded the Union Army. Owned by the Epps family for 344 years, ...

Jayme Lee Vix, 59, passed away on Sunday, July 27, 2025. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, August 9, 2025, at Cross of Christ Lutheran Church in Houston, Minn. Visitation will be ...

May 25, 1947, in Fosston, Minn., to Lester and Jeanne (Dodge) Bardwell. He spent his early years exploring the Clearwater River and riding scooters with cousins in the north woods – a time filled with ...

Paul Weichert turned 80 this past April, but age hasn’t kept him off the green. A lifelong golfer, Paul still plays once a week at Ma Cal Grove Country Club, more often when his children are in town, ...

We’ve all heard the story of that lady (of course, no one I’ve ever known) who goes into her closet full of clothes and bemoans with a sigh, “I have NOTHING to wear!” Ok ok, we can make an excuse for ...

In the early years of Fillmore County, small family farms dominated the fabric of the resident’s way of life. Often these farms had a variety of animals – cattle, chickens, pigs, and horses – rather ...

I wear a number of hats, besides working at the newspaper. One of my jobs, which I thoroughly enjoy, is delivering copies of the Visit Bluff Country Magazine to locations all throughout Iowa, Illinois ...

Samantha Jo Petersen has pleaded guilty to two felony charges stemming from a September 2023 crash that killed two Amish children and seriously injured two others. The crash occurred north of Spring ...