Year: 2016
Council salutes outgoing members
Members of the Maple Lake City Council took time out from politics to express thanks and fond farewells to outgoing Councilmembers John Northenscold and Bart Lauer at their last meeting of the year, Tuesday, December […]
Maple Lake WWII hero earned Medal of Honor 72 years ago
December 15, 1944, Maple Lake born PFC Dirk John Cornelius Vlug, 126th infantry regiment, 32nd infantry division, was slugging it out with his platoon in the mountainous jungles near Limon, Leyte, as part of McArthur’s […]
Brute’s Bleat December 28, 2016
Last Thursday was too nice a day to not give late season pheasant hunting a try, so when I finished up some work I loaded up Vanna and the two of us headed west around […]
County board splits on record retention policy
For years, Wright County has sought to clean up clutter and space in the county courthouse as the world goes more paperless and documents of significance are determined to be of value to retain or […]
Irish boys fall to Litchfield, D-C
The Maple Lake boys basketball team suffered two non-conference losses to close out the month of December. The Irish narrowly fell to Litchfield on Tuesday, Dec. 20, at home, 56-49, to start off the week, […]
Girls struggle on the road
The Maple Lake girls basketball team is weary of the road after three games in a row away from home, the last two resulting in losses. On Tuesday, Dec. 20, the Irish traveled to Howard […]
Irish gymnasts finish well at Litchfield
Maple Lake seventh grader Brooke Mergen claimed two first-place finishes in a Maple Lake gymnastics team loss to Litchfield last week. The Irish traveled to Litchfield Thursday, Dec. 22, where the team took on the […]
Lyons has hand in hockey
Maple Lake junior Devon Lyons had three assists in the Monticello-Annandale-Maple Lake hockey team’s 10-0 win over Becker-Big Lake, Tuesday, Dec. 20, in Princeton. Ben Ward ignited Moose scoring a little over two minutes into […]
Lightning wins Bolt battle
The Annandale-Maple Lake wrestling team moved to 9-3 on the season with wins over conference foes Glencoe-Silver Lake and Dassel-Cokato, Thursday, Dec. 22, at Annandale, in the annual “Battle of the Bolt.” The Lightning started […]