Bob McLaughlin, Lake Mills, and his grandson, Owen, celebrated St. Patrick’s Day in style, putting on their kilts and tam-o-shanters for the occasion. Owen is the three-month-old son of Curran and Skye McLaughlin, Garner.
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The LMHS marching band brought home the Meredith Wilson Grand Champion trophy from the North Iowa Band Festival for the third year in a row and took first place in Class 2A for the 13th year in a row–both new school records. LMHS Band Queen Rylee Bowman was crowned North Iowa Band Festival Queen–25...
The Lake Mills Middle School chorus presented “Marvelous Musicals: Songs from 50 Years of Broadway,” last Thursday, May 25, in the auditorium.
The musical featured songs from The Lion King (pictured left), Annie, The Music Man, Mary Poppins, Grease (pictured below), Footloose, Cinderella, The...
Confirmation Sunday was held May 7 at Lunder Lutheran Church, rural Albert Lea, Minn., and Silver Lake Lutheran Church, rural Northwood.
Pictured left (Lunder): Pastor Bill Peters, Brenna Coe, and Pastor Randy Baldwin.
Pictured below (Silver Lake): Pastor Bill Peters, Bianca Singelstad, Caleb...
BY TERRY GASPER
LAKE MILLS GRAPHIC
Welcome to a new feature from the Graphic, and sponsored by Mill Street Liquor, in which we will spotlight and review craft beers available for sample and purchase locally at Mill Street Liquor.
First, we will look at my beer drinking history, as well as...
Lake Mills letter carriers, along with the help of Boy Scout Troop 44, collected more than 1,800 pounds of food on “National Stamp Out Hunger” Saturday, May 13, due to the generous support of Lake Mills area postal customers. Pictured above (L-R): Boy Scouts Max Johnson, Cody Roth, Treize VanHeiden...
“I never had a rude word from a soldier in my life. I’ve met rebuffs from steamboat captains and paymasters and that kind of fish, but never from one of the boys!” Aunt Becky Young told a reporter with the Chicago Tribune in 1888.
“The boys” were the soldiers of the Civil War, and Young had won...
In the 1850s little boys wanted to be stagecoach drivers when they grew up. Perched high on the seat, in control of a team of high-spirited horses, racing through the countryside—a stagecoach driver’s job looked pretty glamorous to the typical 10 year old. In Iowa many boys were in awe of drivers...
On fliers posted across the South in 1865 the U.S. government promised a reward of $100,000 to “any person or persons who will apprehend and deliver Jefferson Davis” to authorities. The president of the Confederacy was on the run with his family and some of his Confederate officials. According to...
