Story archive for August 2009
Monday, Aug. 31
- That’s the stuff!
- Mural unveiled in downtown Albert Lea
- The State Fair offers badly needed jobs
- Parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota under frost warning
- Loud as a Peacock
- Person bit by coyote
- Southwest to hold orientation on Tuesday
- Humane Society plans pet fair
- Convictions
- Past Albert Lea soccer players return for fundraiser game
- Flying discs at The Flying Lea Championship
- Prep schedule for August 31 and September 1
- Why not just accept the process of wrinkling?
- Editorial: Pay now or pay later for roads
- Conference in A.L. focuses on older workers
- CEOs don’t refuse Social Security checks
- Peek at the Past
Saturday, Aug. 29
- Broitzman pleads not guilty to elder abuse charges
- Agency awarded $700,000 to build street
- Preparing for landing
- Crisis Response Team seeks volunteers for trauma relief
- Walz gives keynote address at American Legion convention
- Greenwings receive grant
- Peoble earns professional dive instructor certificate
- Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation appoints two local officers
- In Brief
- Community Cornerstone hosts free concert and meal
- 2 companies, 2 execs indicted in tunnel deaths
- DNR makes the most of Minn. State Fair
- Fair sets first-day attendance record
- Survival key: Have a long-term strategy to manage money
- United Kingdom, a place where right is right
- Editorial: Thumbs
- The price America pays to own guns is lives
- Peek at the Past
- No insurance for abortion in gov’t plan
- Health care should be a right in America
- Music series kicks off in September
- Hawk, birds and maybe a raven
- One copy of Albert Lea’s mystery newspaper still exists
- Birth Announcements
- Albert Lea participates in National Night Out event
- Kiwanian honored for support
- Recognizing help for the lakes
- Eckhoff Bennett receives perfect score on ACT
- Early Childhood Family Education receives award
- Former Albert Lean receives volunteer award
- Sons of Norway
- FLCW
- ALHS Class of 1940 celebrated 69th anniversary
- ALHS Class of 1940 to hold mini-reunion Sept. 12
- You Can Help
- Vikings dominate Lake Mills on the line in win
- Albert Lea girls' soccer win proves costly
Friday, Aug. 28
- Prep scores for Aug. 28
- Sports Memories
- A salute to a decorated war veteran
- City, ALEDA awarded $700,000 grant
- Walking moais come together
- Agreement denied in County 34 case
- Riverland welcomes increased enrollment
- Glenville-Emmons receives tech grant
- DM&E keeps eye on its coal plan
- Spectators invited to watch the unveiling of mural
- Traveling trio
- Fire at the Tribune
- United Methodist Church offers after-school program
- Convictions
- Tigers pick up first win of the season
- Tigers volleyball falls in three games to Century in season opener
- Prep schedule for August 28 and 29
- Church to hold celebration for seeking peace in life
- Look at the abundance of God’s presence around
- Salem Lutheran Ladies hold annual retreat at church
- “Disciple Disco” party tonight
- Lee Freshour to lead service at state park
- Part 2: Solving the Haynes family mysteries
- Editorial: Think before you text
- Internet provides great array of news outlets
- Walking moais: An Albert Lea success story
- Peek at the Past
Thursday, Aug. 27
- Kiwanis dedicates court
- Walking Moai is set to celebrate success
- Dennison to be sentenced today
- Eagle Scout enhances Sibley exterior
- Wind farms can look like tornadoes
- Big Island Bar-B-Que headlines the weekend
- Community Lutheran celebrates 100 years in September
- Tobacco check had positive results
- NASA astronaut to speak at Wedgewood Cove Sept. 9
- Free health screenings offered on Sunday as part of tour
- Albert Lea Area Youth Choir to begin taking registration
- People can drop off Michelle Obama letters at City Hall
- Fountain Center of Waseca to hold open house
- Crossroads to host simulcast
- Convictions
- U-12 softball team ends first season
- Brett Favre’s move to the Minnesota Vikings
- Prep schedule for August 27 and 28
- The Minnesota Vikings will go all the way
- Editorial: Publicity is the key to success of project
- A rapper, a blogger and when threats are true
- Steve Oman will be missed on the radio
- Lutheran bishop made good choices
- Peek at the Past
Wednesday, Aug. 26
- ‘My love is horses’
- Cummins to cut 400 workers
- Council says OK to making city more walkable
- City celebrates Vitality Project
- Lawyer challenges probable cause
- Area law enforcement on the lookout for impaired drivers
- Fundraiser for food shelf on Thursday
- Cruciferous vegetables can be your good luck charm
- Tigers rush into first game
- NRHEGBOMSCBHTLHCGFVMBLSO High
- Editorial: 400 workers are 400 prospects
- The passing of a legendary news columnist
- Rationed health care won’t be healthy
- Ron Paul calls for audit of the Fed
- Peek at the Past
- Prep schedule for August 26 and 27
- Mass. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy dies at age 77
Tuesday, Aug. 25
- Not just Billy Idol’s guitarist
- Petition urges first lady to visit Albert Lea
- Judge denies motion to toss out statements
- Larson hearing on statements is today
- Council sends design amendment back for review
- Man airlifted to Rochester
- Local Salvation Army accepting applications for after school program
- Convictions
- Albert Lea’s Monson enjoys good company
- Prep schedule for August 25 and 26
- Next edition of magazine sure does get around
- Editorial: Dems, Pawlenty remain bitter
- Closing Minn.’s borders to affordable energy
- Mounted shooting was a great show
- Is Tribune becoming a left-leaning paper?
- Peek at the Past
Monday, Aug. 24
- Honoring veterans
- Millions face Social Security check cuts
- The last 4-person fatality was back in 1988
- Stores race to stock Brett Favre jerseys
- Stimulus dollars benefit small biz
- ALHS students can pick up schedules
- Dissolutions Filed
- A big thanks
- Telephone scam reported
- Meeting on how to finance long-term care on Tuesday at Senior Resources
- Brie’s Photo Contest takes a break
- Tennis anyone?
- Prep schedule for August 24 and 25
- The crisp air of autumn is creeping into Aug.
- Editorial: Reasons to like No. 4
- Time again for the annual Equal Rites Awards
- Oman wasn’t the only Steve ‘let go’
- Peek at the Past
Saturday, Aug. 22
- Clubs to leave Elks Sept. 1
- Health care forum gets noisy
- Foreclosures remain steady
- 40 Books That Changed Our Lives … and could change yours
- A vent catches fire at Cargill
- Civic Music Series is under way
- Dedication of new basketball court to take place on Wednesday
- A postcard from the back of the airport line
- Editorial: Thumbs
- Riders turn back the clock
- Albert Lea players join Riverland Community College soccer team
- Primal Quest leaderboard
- Sports Memories
- United Way campaign kickoff is coming soon
- August, when a man’s thoughts turn to laws
- Peek at the Past
- Exhaust vent catches fire at Cargill
- Puppet ministry brings fun and a message to Saturdays
- Is it a bird or a moth?
- Albert Lea’s six days of street fair, carnival
- After all these years, fairs still hold magic
- Birth Announcements
- Women’s auxiliary meets Monday
- Daybreakers Kiwanis makes donation to Scouting campaign
- St. John’s Auxiliary
- Eagles Auxiliary
Friday, Aug. 21
- Mother is left without her family
- Michael Jackson's personal artist was born in Albert Lea
- Ramblers take a holiday
- Names released in quadruple fatality
- Getting a loan isn’t what it used to be
- KATE’s Steve Oman let go after 27 years
- Convention and Visitors Bureau gets new Web site
- NWS: 4 tornados hit Twin Cities
- Owatonna man injured on Hwy. 14
- ‘Jailbirds’ raise money for March of Dimes research
- Weapon violation reported
- 2 vehicles collide
- Woman charged with narcotic sales
- Republicans welcome 7 gubernatorial candidates
- Express Care open 7 days a week
- Daybreakers Kiwanis Club participates in Relay for Life
- Albert Lean recognized for service to elderly workers
- Albert Lea U-14 baseball team captures league championship
- Prep schedule for August 21 and 22
- Don’t feed the fears
- Nancy Overgaard to lead service at state park
- Confirmed at Concordia Bear Lake Lutheran Church
- Hospice to host free grief workshop
- Enjoying a foggy morning on the lake
- Part 1 of solving the Haynes family mysteries
- Editorial: Take yourself out to the ballgame
- Who are your teenagers hanging out with?
- Albert Lea officer was helpful with tire
- State requirement of schools is awful
- Peek at the Past
Thursday, Aug. 20
- 4 die in wreck on I-90
- Klobuchar sees result of USDA funding
- Albert Lea real estate brokers report increase
- Hormel reports third-quarter earnings
- Cleanup starts after T-storms hit Minneapolis area
- One arrested for drug sale
- Mounted horse shoot comes to fairgrounds
- Borderfest helps instill community pride in Emmons
- Stadheim Jewelers welcome Relay for Life’s cancer survivors for the 2nd year
- ACT announces new season, auditions
- Sheriff’s Posse Ride Sunday
- Albert Lea man part of adventure race
- G-E cheerleaders receive awards
- No help for the Twins this season
- Prep schedule for August 20 and 21
- Top 10 things to do when stuck on a tarmac
- Editorial: Adopting a pet is good for your life
- Testing to improve the district, the community
- Why does DFL favor broken U.S. system?
- Incentives are key when crafting laws
- Talking to a judge has ethical implications
- Martial arts team has spare elbow grease
- Peek at the Past
Wednesday, Aug. 19
- Tornado reported in south Minneapolis
- Small towns join in
- Woman found after 90-minute search
- Smoke-free workplaces? The entire property?
- Mediation fails in pay negotiation
- Symbol placed on vehicle
- Human Rights Commission is awarded training grant
- Skorin serves as delegate at national meeting
- Crossroads Community Hospice to host free grief workshop Sept. 16
- Medical group to hold reunion
- Jeanne Nelson receives her master’s degree
- Convictions
- Have a food question? Ask a farmers market professional
- Tribute to Patsy Cline at Marion Ross Performing Arts Center Thursday
- Clothing Care Center collects coats
- V.F.W. Auxiliary
- Our Savior’s Ladies’ Aid
- Green Lea Junior Club Tournament winners
- Husbands and hardware stores go hand in hand
- Editorial: Get ready for school to begin
- Managing those new health care credit cards
- Peek at the Past
Tuesday, Aug. 18
- What retirement? Favre coming back with Vikings
- High-flying Eagle
- Walmart to unveil its new design
- Lutherans debate rules for clergy
- Austin’s Todd Park is slated to reopen Saturday
- Shinefest starts shining
- Veterans barbecue picnic is Saturday in Northwood
- Women in Military donate collection to county museum
- Party for the Lakes celebrates beauty, availability of lakes
- Moped stolen
- There she is …
- April Sorensen Memorial Scholarships given out
- Salem Lutheran Women’s Executive Board
- Freeborn 4-H Club
- Salvation Army accepts applications for after-school program
- Garden club meets tonight
- NARFE
- Convictions
- Albert Lea Parks and Recreation Men’s Competitive Softball League Champs
- Saga of Michael Scott Speicher reaches an end
- Editorial: Impact 2009 is coming
- Wounded Warriors: honor, courage, sacrifice
- Peek at the Past
Monday, Aug. 17
- Is cow plop bingo illegal?
- 2 Albert Lea businesses win Pohlad job grants
- Obama girls’ play equipment has local connection
- 44 luminaries from the Freeborn County Relay for Life
- Lutherans begin gay clergy talks
- Minn. schools to heed swine-flu advice
- Brick Hall members celebrate 100th birthday of lodge hall
- It’s time to donate blood
- Nordic walking gaining followers
- Fall Open Baseball begins Tuesday
- How much integrity is left in this world?
- Editorial: Full-time school supers are critical for Minn.
- Why support a broken U.S. health system?
- Can obituaries from the past be dug up?
- Socialism, Marxism is what’s un-American
- Peek at the Past
Sunday, Aug. 16
Saturday, Aug. 15
- Got hope?
- Freeborn County Road 46 to close Monday
- Shinefest kicks off Monday
- Local woman undergoes unique split-liver transplant
- Brie's photo contest winner
- Teenage bike rider injured
- Help patients by donating blood to the American Red Cross
- Latest cuts inch Pawlenty’s Minn. budget plan along
- Batman the dog is now cancer free
- The swashbucklers of the new media world
- Editorial: Thumbs
- Routine maintenance would be better
- Peek at the Past
- Goodbyes never are any easier for tours
- Online cartoons reveal media bias
- Tracking down Tiger at the PGA
- Getting ready for the upcoming fall
- Sports Memories
- Re-enactors highlight lives of four former residents
- Shep’s legend
- Preserving the past with pictures
- Wells Area Junior Miss Pageant is Aug. 22
- Why not share your quilt for the Art Center’s show
- Birth Announcements
- Laura Luna graduates from master’s program
- Tennis family to give concert Monday
- ‘Girls of ‘51’ to hold luncheon meeting on Thursday
- Domestic Engineers
- Eagles Auxiliary
- Wa-tan-ye donates to museum
- You Can Help
Friday, Aug. 14
- Extra cartoons on health care now posted
- Bike rider injured
- Disaster relieved
- Police: Be on the lookout for break-ins
- School board, teachers to re-enter mediation
- Wedgewood Cove’s front 9 opens early
- Web site provides lake conditions
- Austin man, 73, sets up camera and catches burglar
- Rainy-day craft
- Library recognizes Readers of the Week
- Legion hosts annual corn, brat feed
- Katlynn Nelson enrolls at CSB
- Convictions
- Confirmed at Hartland Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Those who offer words of grace speak for God
- Glenville Little League learns game
- Looking over Thomas Armstrong’s will
- Editorial: Check out the Relay
- Colleges swim the waters of state cutbacks
- Why can’t citizens speak to judges?
- Time to hear other side of health debate
- Why is there nothing about ‘Guitar Hero’?
- Peek at the Past
Thursday, Aug. 13
- Freeborn County gets set for Relay for Life
- Vehicular homicide defendant appears in court
- Entenza makes Albert Lea flight stop
- Hormel Institute interns challenged
- Boy found after search
- City Council reorders sidewalk improvements
- Relay for Life, festival, fundraisers keep residents busy
- Wells to host events during Kernel Days this weekend
- Vehicles, shed broken into
- Salvation Army food pantry demand is up
- Republican picnic is Tuesday
- Ski show tonight
- Convictions
- ALHS wrestling team places 4th at Luther’s team wrestling camp
- Woodside to play basketball in France
- Twins do too little, too late at trade deadline
- The best songs for cruising down a highway
- Editorial: How about a little respect?
- Spending my vacation as a camp counselor
- America is slipping into Marxism
- Walz needs to hold some town meetings
- All are complicit in killing of children
- Peek at the Past
Wednesday, Aug. 12
- USDA predicts record corn crop in Minnesota
- Connecting the disconnected
- School officials say results don’t reflect truth
- 3 Albert Lea schools fail; Glenville-Emmons, USC and Alden-Conger also hit
- Albert Lea HRA awarded $610,000
- Seifert touts job growth and changing state funding system
- Tips for making half your grains whole
- Mower taken
- Tiger football begins work early
- We had to climb the dreaded rope in phy ed
- Editorial: Golf carts are a good idea for small cities
- Private insurance offers personalized service
- Atheistic thugs tear United States apart
- Thanks for calling the wrecker Aug. 3
- Peek at the Past
Tuesday, Aug. 11
- Albert Lea HRA receives funding for foreclosure program
- A fishaholic
- Albert Lea featured in AARP’s magazine
- Local schools fail to meet yearly progress goals
- Council: Albert Lea is national vitality center
- Parks and Rec judges gardening contest
- Omnibus hearing continued
- Vehicles broken into
- A competent communicator
- Arc hamburger supper is Wednesday
- Meeting on new USDA program Wednesday
- A curious creature
- Southwest math classes make a difference in community
- Many made art, garden tour a success
- Helen Keller award
- Passing the gavel
- Group building environmental learning center near Brookside
- Reeling ‘em in
- Friendly Confines: a great place for a reunion
- Editorial: We’ve got spirit, yes, we do
- Obama, your plan on health care won’t fly
- Merger isn’t healthy for the marketplace
- Peek at the Past
Monday, Aug. 10
- Lunch on the lawn
- Jalopy wars
- Hormel Foods on track for profit
- La Guadalupana opens in mall
- Frank Lloyd Wright hotel restored in Mason City
- Country star parties it up at the Freeborn County Fair
- Rodeo romps through fairground
- Schmidt claims City Open to add to collection
- Marijuana found
- Save 2nd Base Committee donates to Naeve Health Care Foundation
- Marriage Licenses Issued
- Convictions
- These are a few of my favorite restaurants
- Editorial: MNSCU needs changing
- Extra! Extra! On sale now! Get your wing nuts
- Bills to make people complicit in killing
- Peek at the Past
Saturday, Aug. 8
- Fishing trip now a 40-year ritual
- Blackhawks finish season at ASA state tourney
- Local soccer player plays on Olympic Development team
- Sports Memories
- Fall sports sign-up for ALHS starts Monday
- Firearm safety classes begin Wednesday
- ALHS volleyball captains’ practice begins Monday
- ALHS girls’ tennis captains’ practice begins Monday
- A.L. Inn owner loses property
- Tornado watch, heat advisory issued for southern Minn.
- Freeborn County Fair: Have you signed up?
- Man admits driving golf cart while drunk
- Will City Council adopt Blue Zones suggestions?
- A.L.H.S. graduate receives top band director honors
- Country quartet Little Big Town performs hits
- Brie’s Photo Contest winner
- Politics at the fair
- Three people honored at Freeborn County Fair
- Jones confirmed as next US attorney for Minnesota
- GOP’s Jungbauer rolls out gov. bid at Game Fair
- First human case of West Nile reported in Iowa
- Mrs. Gerry’s scholarship winners
- In Brief
- Campus notes
- Anniversary: Tennis
- Military news
- Funding the president’s health care program
- Editorial: Thumbs
- United Way won’t give up until race finishes
- Peek at the Past
- Walz needs to hold town hall meetings
- Health care system is in hands of insurers
- Bulletin Board
- Budding 4-H’ers
- Nature’s Q and A
- Remnant of former city park is still visible
- 4-H’er and her Shelties make for a winning team
- It’s been a great summer for making memories
- Birth Announcements
- Genealogical Society to meet Monday at museum
- You Can Help
Friday, Aug. 7
- Man admits driving golf cart while drunk, running over woman
- Four Bulldogs taking volleyball to college
- Green Lea Junior MGA team places 7th at state tournament
- Children explore the sights
- Gubernatorial hopeful Emmer pushes for reduction in taxes
- Man asked to leave fair
- Police, deputies cite 147 motorists during July speed enforcement campaign
- Public Health Dept. receives child passenger safety grant
- County begins budget process
- Watershed district to host a tour of projects
- Austin Duplicate Bridge Club notes
- Legal course for seniors focuses on health care directives
- A fishing trip to remember
- Column: Where I’ve been, where I’m going
- Healing service tonight
- No service at state park Sunday
- Church women meet Wednesday
- Community Mentor Connection receives grant
- Convictions
- Playing and singing polka tunes in church
- Editorial: Getting the Trib in your e-mail?
- Composting is easier than people might think
- Why change entire system for the few?
- Albert Lea police have been helpful with situation
- Peek at the Past
- It was Pickler-mania
- Golf carts could share road with autos in Lake Mills
Thursday, Aug. 6
- Fooooooooooooood!
- Caregivers group has new leader for county
- State: Stimulus supports 2,130 road jobs
- Salvation Army offers supplies
- Luke Bryan keeps audience involved during concert
- Group asks Latinos to answer Census
- Man struck by car, receives foot injury
- Man in charge of road maintenance in Hartland Township for 18 years
- Freeborn County Fair dominates weekend events
- Freeborn-Mower Cooperative Services awards three $1,000 lineworker scholarships
- New homes dominate city, county reports
- Friday is Vitality Project Day at county fair
- No ski show tonight
- Freeborn County American Red Cross schedules drill to test disaster equipment
- Convictions
- Albert Lea U-14 girls conclude season
- A Jinx, the Twins and a book
- Green Lea junior team tied for 5th at state tournament
- Prep schedule for August 6 and 7
- Methodist church to hold twilight concerts
- Thrivent supports Art Center
- The fair, my dogs, 30 Under 40, beating cancer
- Editorial: Fix the ‘cash for clunkers’ glitch
- The true cost of missing sidewalks, bike lanes
- Walz casts important vote for ethanol
- Peek at the Past
Wednesday, Aug. 5
- Southern Minn. ethanol plant sold
- It’s calling everyone: food at the county fair
- A jack of all spades
- Editorial: Get out to the county fair
- High-speed rail would take 8 states for a ride
- Nice act deserves to be forwarded
- Finally! No more seizures
- Racy rock concert is reason for concern
- Peek at the Past
- Council takes first hack at budget for 2010
- 15-year-olds begin drive for book bags and school supplies
- Fair expects big crowd for Pickler
- Keith Anderson kicks off country concerts at the fair
- Man arrested for DWI
- What happened to the family farm? Maybe it’s still there
- New BNI members
- Convictions
- Albert Lea Parks and Recreation Co-Ed Recreational League Champs
- Racin’
- ALHS cross country captains’ practice under way
- Prep schedule for August 5 and 6
Tuesday, Aug. 4
- Senate to vote to extend 'clunkers'
- Arena Football League on brink of folding
- Do connections give people police favors?
- Fair attraction
- Albert Lea businesses change workplace fare
- Robbery defendant gets new condition
- School board to take 2nd shot at contract
- Austin requests grants to replace trees lost during tornado
- Car reported spray-painted
- New Kiwanis members
- Public urged to fill giant piggy bank at fair
- Convictions
- Are you ready for some football? Not really
- Editorial: So much for citations of uncut grass
- Should schools ban teachers in religious garb?
- Will health care lose its personal touch?
- Peek at the Past
- Taekwondo fun for whole family
- Man hit in head with shovel
- A.L. Parks and Recreation begins Youth First fall sports program
- Prep schedule for August 4 and 5
Monday, Aug. 3
- Clunkers keep dealers busy
- Why are the boys failing?
- Sharing by Minnesota, Wisconsin hits snags
- Stockman House offers glance at Frank Lloyd Wright design
- Storyteller honored for excellence
- Convictions
- We all have ‘American Idol’ rejection moments
- Editorial: Health care bill has problems
- Lessons from living with 8.3 million people
- Peek at the Past
- Albert Lea Parks and Recreation Sand Volleyball winners
Sunday, Aug. 2
Saturday, Aug. 1
- Getting the grounds ready
- Public comments being accepted on wind turbine issues
- Current market could be right climate to start a business
- Franken relishes policy role in new position
- Organic farmers hoping trucks increase business
- Brie’s Photo Contest winner
- Vrooom!
- Acupuncture to get more insurance coverage in Minn.
- Iowans get tax-free shopping on Aug. 7-8
- New BNI members
- Clothing Care Center to collect winter coats
- What do golf and the arts have in common?
- Editorial: Thumbs
- To be right or to be happy: that is the question
- Peek at the Past
- Peterson a given but QB situation still in flux
- Longtime coach relishes staying with one team
- U-13 team wins state tourney
- Golf outing raises money to find cure for breast cancer
- From filling station to convenience store
- Sports Memories
- Marion Drescher strives to use her gifts
- Paul Scrabeck brings enthusiasm, compassion
- Memories of Montana
- Try these positive thoughts to feel more motivated, optimistic
- For the county’s 4-H’ers, it’s fair time again
- Pets available for adoption at Albert Lea Animal Shelter
- Birth Announcements
- The Merlin Players to present ‘Anne of Green Gables’
- Riverland announces spring president’s, dean’s lists
- Symphonic orchestra to begin season
- Campus Notes
- You Can Help
- Golf fundraiser brings in $10,000


