Story archive for January 2001
Thursday, Feb. 1
- Albert Lea sends nine freshmen to state
- Editorial: New kind of gas has great possibilities
- Sacred strumming
- Local schools join chorus of budget boos
- Column: Imposing owl was a subject of more fear than admiration
- Ethanol fuel is a gas for Exol
Wednesday, Jan. 31
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- Obituaries for Jan. 31, 2001
- A.L. basketball girls fall to Faribault
- ALHS swimmers cruise past Farmington
- Obituaries for Jan. 29, 2001
- Progress continues for ALHS icemen
- City works to clear streets
- Local charities praise Bush's aid plan
- Midwest may face power shortages
- Column: MegaMall is a mystery
- Column: Interested in stars? Join the club
- When I grow up: Florist
- Electric prices rising locally
- Hall-of-Fame smile
- Karate kicks
- SMIG says reliable service restored
Saturday, Jan. 27
- Scarlets slip past ALHS girls
- Fatal rollover
- Mentor program helping welfare-to-work clients increase skills
- Tigers overcome penalties, top West
- Albert Lea continues to suffer from apartment and rental homes shortages
Thursday, Jan. 25
- Truck driver retires after 25 years with school district
- Column: Vacation found old friends, but coming home feels good
- Hanging up the keys
- Lawmakers react to new budget
- Mattson vies for State Pork Ambassador
- Squirts finish strong in tourney
Wednesday, Jan. 24
- Unemployment dropped in December, rose in 2000
- Cool winter air
- Column: The idiots, the morons and the queen all cause road rage
- Packers pull away from ALHS girls
- County coalition hoping for tax reform, funding
- Editorial: All parties need open minds
Tuesday, Jan. 23
- Lake aerator may have to wait longer
- Breakfast with kids is a time of bribery and intimidation
- Council tackles parking in Central, hospital area
- Kiffmeyer: Participation is the key
- Tigers rally past Fairmont
- Fun is in the cards
- Grand jury ruling on Schleicher not public
Monday, Jan. 22
- Decking the wall
- Photo by Jeff Mulfinger
- Sheriff's salary, put in perspective, is a mystifiying matter
Saturday, Jan. 20
- Court to decide Mower's SCHA future
- Column: Without Wellstone, many good Ventura opponents remain
- Clearing the tracks
- Business friendly
- Web-Room offers cutting edge digital document storage service
- Tigers again go for the pin
Friday, Jan. 19
- Dorman proposes grants for soccer fields
- Frank Avenue project formidable
- Obituraries for Jan. 19, 2001
- Editorial: Wellstone's move won't change many votes
- Weekend planner
- Column: Memories of first air mail flight
- Acting out in school
- Basketball team ends skid with win over Winona
- Tigers drop rematch with Falcons
Thursday, Jan. 18
- Expanding Exol
- Knights gather momentum
- Competency test ordered for Schleicher
- Couple gets probation for burning home
- Dorman hopes to ban mercury thermometers
- Hospital union may strike
- Editorial: County should welcome more participation
- Column: Snow depressing now, but things were different as a child
Wednesday, Jan. 17
- Obituaries for Jan. 16, 2001
- Brandt retires as GOP chairman
- Debate over public comment resurfaces
- Man charged with naked burglary
- Obituaries for Jan. 17, 2001
- A.L. hockey girls blank Faribault
- Swimming and diving team dominates dual meet
- A Hartlander in a suit raises suspicions
- Column: User-friendly technology too much to expect
- County hires new court administrator
- School board installs new members
- Dropping a line
Monday, Jan. 15
- Tigers turn it around, top NRHEG
- New pool is a spectator's delight
- Obituaries for Jan. 15, 2001
- Karaoke kids
Saturday, Jan. 13
- Young Vikes
- High gas prices hurting local seniors
- Tigers can't keep pace with Rockets
- New owners take over Sunset Grill
- Osterberg's career spanned significant changes in police work, criminal mind
Friday, Jan. 12
- Column: Update on Frosty Westering and the 'Lutes'
- ALHS matmen win a thriller at Mayo
- End of bookmobile service is sad for frequent users
- Wells bowling alley owners won't rebuild
- Forging a new alliance for health
- Martin Luther King breakfast leads long weekend
- Boys' hockey: Another night, another comeback
- ALHS swimmers drop dual at Mayo
- Obituaries for Jan. 12, 2001
- Obituaries for Jan. 11, 2001
- Applebee's hopes to break ground as soon as spring
- End of the holiday
- Column: Reading was a chore and bore until moment of revelation
- Lake Mills economic group ready to roll
Wednesday, Jan. 10
- Change in plowing policy unlikely
- Senior care faces crunch of numbers
- Worth, Winnebago unlikely to land plant
- Detective job a challenge for long-time patrolman
- ALHS boys can't hold off Austin
- Column: Research gives men a rock-solid excuse for not listening
Tuesday, Jan. 9
- Millions in street work planned
- Column: Accusations, tainted process produce precarious president
- G-E girls hold off Lake Mills
- State won't examine Distad incident
- Grand jury to consider first-degree charges for Schleicher
- Independent sanitation company owner says he's doing what he loves
- Lake advocates, DNR may find common aeration solution
Monday, Jan. 8
- Local Salvation Army ends about $20,000 short of goal
- Column: Outogoing county board left a last-year legacy of spending
- Victory is program's first ever against a Rochester team
- The center of attention
- Northwood-Kensett will seek new school superintendent as McIntire steps down
Friday, Jan. 5
- Some have been towed, but school says lot operating well
- Spartans too strong for Tigers
- Schleicher wants new judge in his murder trial
- Chapeau landowners get leverage against DNR in dam argument
- Editorial: Don't limit local access to school levy
- Purdie ruled mentally ill, will be committed
- Column: Some 'psychic' predictions that never took place last year
Thursday, Jan. 4
- Boulevard snow slows city street plowing
- Editorial: Creativity could help prevent power shortage
- Session starts with ceremony and strife
- NRHEG girls win big at LeCenter
- Column: A new year is a new chance to strive for tolerance, kindness
- Judge to decide if Konrad's alleged past is relevant
