Story archive for August 2007
Friday, Aug. 31
- A.L. schools fail to meet mark
- Column: Diversity brings change; thats hard for some
- Bluejays bombard Tigers to win
- Rebels still looking for victory
- USC reels off third straight dual win
- Knights move to 2-0 on young season
- Outdoors: Labor Day weekend promises to be good for some fishing
- Editorial: Drinking? Driving? Think again
- Cancer takes a city favorite
- Overcoming an injury
- Man arrested for felony theft
- Column: Doing the hard sell with our nations coins
Thursday, Aug. 30
- Ski show, waffles on tap for weekend
- New owner at Geneva Meats & Processing
- Northwood gym is updated
- Glenville 4-Her wins top ribbon at Minn. State Fair
- Column: A new era in Minnys sports scene?
- Free hockey for mites
- Knights win opener
- Albert Lea starts season under Thursday night lights in Waseca
- USC/AC does well at Mt. Lake
- Column: Parent involvement is critical to student success
- Column: Getting good words when son goes to college
- Editorial: Neighbors pitch in after disasters
- Clara Rolands, 89, Spokane, Wash.
- Hubert Indrelie, 88, Albert Lea
- Lois Oberg, 71, Montevideo
Wednesday, Aug. 29
- Two cited for illegal consumption
- Column: Scanning the area sports landscape
- Sager, Randall shine for Tigers at Austin CC meet
- Shortstop set for this weekend
- Look who just turned 40
- Column: Does anyone still get handwritten letters?
- Column: Reader: What are the dog days of summer?
- Editorial: People can make air travel easier
- Wilma Roesler, 87, Minnesota Lake
- Library is closed during final stages of remodeling
- Kindergartners head to school for the first time
- Students get ready for school and college
- Most homes passing sewer inspections
- Reward in Sorensen case now at $100,000
- A new look at the Blazing Star Landing
Tuesday, Aug. 28
- An old church is now a gift shop
- Rebels down Huskies
- A.L. tennis girls split in New Ulm
- Column: Life is too short to be mean to other people
- Column: Wine is not a difficult subject to figure out
- Editorial: NFLs Goodell makes the right move
- Arthur Randall, 95, Albert Lea
- Jodi Wangsness, 41, Albert Lea
- Multiple individuals cited after fight
- Fire damages home
- Rochester police plan to update Sorensen case in Albert Lea
- City Council OKs help for flood areas
Monday, Aug. 27
- Animal shelter issues enter spotlight
- Column: Stifling protest: bad choice between law, order
- Column: What constitutes a wonderful life? Money?
- Edward Claassen, 86, Albert Lea
- Former library is new again
- Joseph Sonnek, 84, Wells
- House fire reported in Alden
- School administrators play musical chairs
Saturday, Aug. 25
- The new Freeborn County chief walks to work, and our reporter went with him
- Pair of Tigers named to Elite League
- USC/AC boys win first meet of the season, girls take fourth
- Tigers soccer team opens season with a tie
- Experience shows as USC wins
- How to let pleasure guide us more than pain
- Stiff warning to readers: Stop the weirdness
- Esther Ann Huston, 86, of Bricelyn
- Don Johnson, 88, of Albert Lea
- Speedy kitten gets adopted
- City may help improve airport
- Lookout! The kids might use their imaginations at the museum
- Bath salts are not just for breakfast anymore
- Deer Creek Park is at former site of creamery
Friday, Aug. 24
- Column: Just shut up, go home and take your children
- Column: The sad, sorry consequences of critter dumping
- Harold Smith, 89, Scarville
- Local assessor looks at damage
- No one expected floods
- Rushford school cleans up
- Outdoors: The big fish story
- Albert Lea U-11 team completes successful season
Thursday, Aug. 23
- Cancer benefit in Conger
- Elevator demolition nears end
- Board votes against saving building
- Water patrol gets new ride
- Column: The Power of Positive Thinking and the Twins
- Column: Taxes and the Interstate 35W bridge collapse
- Column: Songs, books and great thoughts of summer
- Editorial: Thanks for voting online
- Clinton Hanson, 84, Albert Lea
- Fire department holds fundraiser
- Garage door reported broken
Wednesday, Aug. 22
- Freeborn County to help flooded counties
- Column: Ranking the best too early
- Tigers open season with a pair of wins
- Rebels fall to Austin
- Column: Whats not to love? Its the Equal Rites Awards
- Column: The county fair brings out 2 kinds of weather
- Editorial: A change in the season
- Sharon Diaz, 60, Albert Lea
- Woman arrested for DWI
- 4 local Red Cross volunteers help in flood areas
- Local crops growing well
Tuesday, Aug. 21
- No flooding seen in Albert Lea
- Column: On sailboats and Womens Equality Day
- Column: Windyfoggery, ad-diction and curdles clich/s
- Editorial: Meetings are good for everyone
- Sheriffs Posse Ride set for Sunday
- Hog truck turns over into ditch
- District offers ideas for budget cuts
- New Richland family survives flood
- 13-year-old sells doggy biscuits at A.L. Farmers Market
Monday, Aug. 20
- Albert Lea is unlike national housing market
- Little King and Queen are crowned
- By Tim Engstrom, managing editor
- Column: Does your school let students exercise free press?
- Column: Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me.
- Column: The rest stops in Iowa have wimpy toilet paper
- 3 arrested for alcohol related charges
- Parade displays Emmons pride
Sunday, Aug. 19
- Law enforcement on the look-out for drunk drivers
- Dealing with emotional impact of tragedies
- Nonprofit might save historic building from demolition
- 2 teachers for a 3-day, 60-mile walk to raise funds to fight breast cancer
- Using the fairgrounds for an airport or athletic field
- A season with something for everyone
- Column: Alaskan cruise report, part two
- Gearing up for a new season
- Column: United Way donations help people in need
- Column: The master woodsman takes a hike up north
- Maridee Riestad, 83
- Twila Hatle, 76, Glenville
- Speed enforcement results are in
- Speedy white kitten may be adopted
Friday, Aug. 17
- Tim Walz speaks to A.L. Lions Club
- Outdoors: Do walleyes lose their teeth?
- Column: This Canadian gave a real salute to Americans
- Editorial: Farmers market hits its stride
- 2 local communications companies to merge
- A.L. 14-year-old baseball team makes state
- Mayo doctor announces 1st District candidacy
- Column: How ethanol production ruins my social life
- Wells crowns Little Miss Kernel
Thursday, Aug. 16
- Column: Do you know 10 community commandments?
- The puzzle comes together
- Father: There arent enough words
- MnDot: Glenville corner not as bad as first viewed
- First citywide comp plan meeting takes place in Sept.
- Wells to be filled with fun
- Glenville and Emmons host community celebrations
- Ryan Truesdell, 20, Albert Lea
- Lois Koch, 86, Glenville
- Column: What was happening in America 110 years ago?
- Column: Saying goodbye to the Minnesota big man
Wednesday, Aug. 15
- Community-minded
- Column: Facing the fantasy football truths
- Local mens softball team gears up for state, national tournament
- Column: School social workers benefit Albert Lea kids
- Column: Alaskan cruise was a relaxing, amazing time
- Editorial: Keep jail in downtown Austin
- Upcoming Glenville Days is a festival like no other
- Vehicle struck by lightning
- Shell Rock septic notices mailed out
- Man dies after falling into grain bin
Tuesday, Aug. 14
- City orders building torn down
- Three-peat for Schmidt at City Open
- Column: Grandfather appears in photo at end of film
- Editorial: Carol Molnau needs to resign
- Ruby Knudtson, 86, Albert Lea
- Donald Gooden, 83, Emmons
- Car stolen, found afterward
- Store does better than owner expected on opening day
Monday, Aug. 13
- Volunteers turn out to clean lake shore
- Tigers take part in Luther camp
- Column: The other Reagan doctrine: Keeping the lid on
- Column: More in America than bridges is crumbling
- Editorial: Time to invest in public transit
- Man knows 25 years of car sales
- Fun in the sun and rain
Saturday, Aug. 11
- Five new families come to Wells for school
- TV deliberations could put Big Ten teams outside the box this fall
- Maturi sees big things for the U sports teams in time
- New leadership starts with you and with me
- Recipe for avoiding risky bridge: Hold the Mayo
- Death notice for Dominic and Ruth Weigel
- Kitten rides under hood over 80 mph
- Council to vote on Boat Landing project
- Kids understanding cancer
- Relay for Life exceeds fundraising goal
- Albert Lea Community Theatre announces new season
- Museum fundraisers bring the past to life
- Alaskan cruise report, part one
- New Graceland program will honor six area pioneers
Friday, Aug. 10
- Freeborn County Relay for Life: Beading to success
- Column: It was fair, school, football, fall colors
- Age has its effect on this team of Ragbrai bikers
- State fastpitch tourneys set for this weekend
- Column: Saying more than just one word about plastics
- Column: When real beer was brewed in Albert Lea
- Editorial: Are there too many roads?
- I-35W bridge collapse slideshow on extratribune
- Only one individual charged from Thursday incident
- Man cited for underage drinking
- Book chronicles story of a tarnished childhood
- Predatory offender fails to register
- Council discusses former Midwest Antiques building
Thursday, Aug. 9
- A.L. test scores below state levels
- Column: The Minnesota Twins idenity crisis
- Soccer team plays well at state
- Column: Waging peace in the name of religion, not war
- Column: Stop, slow down, remember your priorities
- Editorial: Bridges arent supposed to fall
- Larson Mfg. distribution center goes up
- Three cited for cocaine
- Let loose at Borderfest
- Relay, magic show top weekend events
- Family Y capital campaign in final push
- 2 businesses fail tobacco checks
- One step at a time, the Relay battles cancer
Wednesday, Aug. 8
- Column: July was a month for nudes, veggies, tap water
- Gopher AD Maturi to speak in Albert Lea
- Column: Fall and football is on the way
- Column: Big families would actually be good for planet
- Editorial: Who failed to pay the bills?
- Donald Hultgren, 71, Laverne
- Four cited for illegal consumption
- Worth County students eligible for school supplies
- Todays ShineFest events listed
- Bratwurst for sale at farmers market
- Mower County puts cap on jail spending
- Katherine Island bridge work to begin
- 2 ways to support water
- Will new ethanol plant make traffic dangerous?
- The yellow shirts are out for ShineFest 2007
Tuesday, Aug. 7
- Column: A visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center
- Column: Sometimes it takes awhile for news to sink in
- Editorial: Relay for Life is coming
- Death notice for Tuesday
- Watershed Board looks at its goals
- School district focuses on math and reading
- Georges of Geneva has new owners but the same name
- Colonels season comes to an end in Rochester
Sunday, Aug. 5
- Erma Pollei, 86, Albert Lea
- Anker Mathiason, 94, Alden
- Singing sisters shine at the fair
- Power outage shuts down grocery store
- Mower County jail vote is Tuesday
- Prairie musical to stop in Albert Lea this month
- Demolition derby wows fair-goers
- Column: Greetings say a lot about us
- Column: Just what are those hedge apples?
- New book features Marine pilots with local connections
- Local woman celebrates 100 years of a busy life
- Flyball invades City Arena
- Fashions for my age are harder to come across
- Twins made the right choices
- Gary Lamb, 69, Emmons
- Sybil Moja, 84, Wells
- Roger Passer, 86, Wells
- Clarence Christenson, 70
Friday, Aug. 3
- We can never say this will never happen here
- Column: Tetonka Lake try it and I know you will like it
- Column: The two big bombs that ended a world war
- Column: There is too much money in pro sports
- Editorial: Pray for the bridge victims
- Donn Smith, 71, Clarks Grove
- Senior Day started with lively music
- Jake Owen lights up the stage with his million dollar smile
- Watershed, fair bring way to conserve water
- Albert Lea residents react to news of collapse
- 2 A.L. natives recount bridge collapse
Thursday, Aug. 2
- Albert Lea residents react to news of bridge collapse
- Do local bridges compare?
- Colonels bats quiet against Kasson
- Beverly Anderson, 73, Albert Lea
- Man arrested on multiple charges
- Relay for Life team crafts quilt to help fight cancer
- Permits issued for warehouse and remodeling
- New art exhibits open this weekend
- Little Anthony and the Imperials entertain fair-goers
- Dont miss out on Hartland Harvest Days
- Help us with our coverage of the collapse
- Column: Minnesota Twins and the Little Things
Wednesday, Aug. 1
- Heartland band comes out rockin at the fair
- Humor and hypnotism
- Column: Sizing up the Vikings by position
- Column: Fashionistas make politics distasteful for many
- Column: Mr. Batt goes to Washington D.C., that is
- Editorial: Get to know the new laws
- Mary Van Rossum, 72, Wells
- Norbert Wanzek, 84, Wells
- Crash reduces Interstate 35 to single lanes near Elko
- Faith community ready to serve


