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.
When Loretta Reimers first took Annie’s Project in 2013, it was one of many women in ag programs she would go on to complete.
When Loretta Reimers first took Annie’s Project in 2013, it was one of many women in ag programs she would go on to complete.
As long as I can remember, books have been my escape and the library my place of comfort.
We are over half-way through the school year and I have many good things going at LMCS.
We are over half-way through the school year and I have many good things going at LMCS.

Features

Branson’s Ozark Jubilee, with be presenting “Stars of the Grand Ole Opry” at the Diamond Jo Event Center next Wednesday, April 19. at 7 p.m. The show will feature the music of the biggest stars of the Grand Ole Opry, including” Roy Acuff, Patsy Kline, Tammy Wynette, Ray Price, George Jones, Merle...
Members of the Lake Mills Volunteer Fire Department were busy serving up breakfast Saturday night, as a part of their annual fundraiser dance and breakfast.  
“A large colony of Wall Street’s leading bankers, prominent lawyers and businessmen generally reside there,” railroad promoter S.G. Durant had just been released from a federal prison in Atlanta, Ga. and was speaking to a Register and Leader newspaper reporter. According to S.G., the facility...
The Top of Iowa Quilt Club sews patriotic quilts to donate to our local veterans. This has been done in past years, but the club made the decision to submit an article to the Lake Mills Graphic, about one veteran who receives a quilt each month. If you know any senior veterans that have not yet...
Farmers in the Charles City area threatened to take their business to neighboring towns if the Improvement Association removed the hitching posts in the city park. But the 45 women who had formed the new association in 1903 weren’t about to back down. Before long the hitching posts were gone and...
In May 1862 a group of 12 men from Clear Lake traveled to Cedar Falls to enlist in the Union army. Among the group who were willing to join the fight to preserve the Union during the Civil War were two brothers, Winslow Casady (W.C.) Tompkins and Caleb Tompkins.   “Our squad of 12 left Clear Lake...
The LMHS celebrated the roots of Rock and Roll, with their spring show entitled “Twist and Shout,” as they danced and sang their way through the first several decades of the Rock and Roll era. See more photos of the performance on page 7 of this issue and image galleries on our website at www....
NCIGS will be holding their monthly meeting April 8, at 1:30 p.m., in the lower level meeting room of the Clear Lake Public Library. The meeting is free and open to the public, and will feature a round table discussion on wide ranging topics, including: • What items or projects initiated interest...
By Bonnie Kay Baldwin lake mills graphic Zoe Heimendinger, LMHS senior, skated in her final shows with the Albert Lea Figure Skating Club (ALFSC), March 4 and 5, at the Albert Lea City Arena Heimendinger, daughter of Dave and Mary Beth, Scarville, began her career with the Albert Lea Skating...
“They are simply awful. They left farm life to go on the stage and are raising larger crops than when tilling the soil. Beans, peas, turnips, carrots, eggs and cabbage literally rain down upon them whenever they shamble onto the stage.” A Chicago arts publication gave the Cherry Sisters from...

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