Monthly Archives: August 2002

Filings for city and school boards opened Tuesday. As of Friday morning those who may be interested in filing have been slow to do so. Filing for the position of mayor in Little Falls were Norma Hudson and William Hollermann. … Continue reading →

(Pictured: The Little Falls Flyers lost the home girls soccer opener Tuesday, falling 5-1 to St. Cloud Cathedral. In the top photo, LF’s Kristen Olson, left, and Tyler Young, #13, attempt to get the ball away from a Cathedral player. … Continue reading →

The Little Falls girls have dropped their first three soccer matches, falling to Detroit Lakes, St. Cloud Cathedral and St. Cloud Apollo. Little Falls will travel to St. Cloud Tech Tuesday, Sept. 3 and will travel to Sartell Thursday, Sept. … Continue reading →

(Pictured: Flyerettes, from left, Laura Harms, Cassie Urbanski, Jody Kliber, Joelle Holtberg and Rachael Hoben. Staff photo by Keith O. Axvig)Willmar 3, LF 0Willmar shut out Little Falls in the season volleyball opener Tuesday night 3-0.The Cardinals won the first … Continue reading →

Little Falls opened the 2002 volleyball season with a pair of losses, falling 3-0 to Willmar Tuesday and 3-1 in Brainerd Thursday.The Flyerettes will travel to St. Cloud Tech for a 7:30 game Thursday night, Sept. 5.

Royalton dropped the season football opener to Menahga Thursday night 24-14.The Royals trailed 8-0 at the end of the first quarter, led 14-8 at the half, trailed 24-14 at the end of three and lost 24-14.The first second-quarter Royalton touchdowns … Continue reading →

The Flyers lost to Cathedral 2-1 and were shut out by powerful Apollo 6-0.Little Falls will host two games next week, SC Tech at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3 and Sartell Thursday, Sept. 5, also at 5 p.m.SC Cathedral 2, … Continue reading →

Alexandria defeated the Little Falls freshmen 36-22 in football Thursday and shut out the LF sophomores 6-0, also Thursday.Jim Pender scored two touchdowns for the LF freshmen, Josh Flavin had one.“The sophomore defense had a great game but lost 6-0,” … Continue reading →

Little Falls swimmers finished seventh, out of eight teams, at the St. Cloud Apollo Relay girls swim meet Tuesday.St. Cloud Cathedral won the meet with a score of 98 followed by Watertown-Mayer 92, Bloomington Kennedy 84, St. Cloud Apollo 80, … Continue reading →

Upsala/Swanville Area (USA), down by four points with 1:27 to play in the season football opener and the ball on the three-yard line, fumbled. Bertha-Hewitt recovered, ran the clock out, and took home a victory.“It was our game to have. … Continue reading →

Royalton competed in the Holdingford Husker Cross Country Invitational Thursday but did not compete as a team.Rocori won both the boys’ and girls’ division.Holdingford’s David Hlebain won the boy’s division with a time of 18:02. Royalton’s Randy Borash was 26th … Continue reading →

The Little Falls girls tennis team lost two matches this past week, both to St. Cloud schools and both by identical scores of 5-2. The pair of losses drops the Flyerettes to a 2-6 season record, 0-2 in the Central … Continue reading →

(Pictured are Captains and seniors on this year’s Pierz-Healy High School volleyball team, from left, Kari Block, Beckie Loidolt, Kayla Pohlkamp, Nicole Meyer and Allyson Kloss. Staff photo by Keith O. Axvig)Pierz 3, Becker 0The Pioneers opened the season against … Continue reading →

Pierz won its first two volleyball matches this past week, shutting out both teams.The Pioneers beat both Becker and Crosby-Ironton in three straight games, giving the team a 2-0 early-season record.

Tanisha (Tia) Dosh, six-year-old daughter of Daniel Dosh and Melissa Johnson, all of Little Falls, buys a 96-count box of Crayola Crayons last week. Tia will be a first grader at Lindbergh Elementary. Her grandparents are Kathy and Gerry Gwost … Continue reading →

Following public hearings and getting positive recommendations from the Planning Commission and the HRA, the Little Falls City Council approved several requests Monday evening. The approved requests of most importance had to do with Cornerstone Eldercare, Inc., the Brainerd firm … Continue reading →

With hopes of making the intersection of Highway 27 and CR 8 safer, Morrison County Public Works Director Steve Backowski informed the commissioners Tuesday that work had begun. He noted that the grubbing for sight improvement had been completed, the … Continue reading →

Approved by the Little Falls City Council to install sewer and water extensions along Pine Avenue, and to reconstruct the avenue, was S J Louis Construction, Inc. of St. Cloud. Pine Avenue is the street recently annexed from Belle Prairie … Continue reading →

Because of the increase in drug trafficking and the need for specially trained officers to work in correcting the problem, area law enforcement departments joined together in 1987 to form The Narcotic Enforcement Team (Net VI Task Force). When NET … Continue reading →

Mid-Minnesota Federal Credit Union received statewide recognition for their community service efforts as a first place recipient of The Dora Maxwell Award for Social Responsibility. The Dora Maxwell Award was created to encourage and honor credit union and chapter involvement … Continue reading →

(Pictured are Willie Isder and his mother Carol showing a sketch of their new home to family support team members Margaret and Maurice Faust and Larry Sharon, president of Habitat for Humanity of Morrison County. Staff photo by Lorae Vardas) … Continue reading →

By this time next year, Carol Isder and son Willie will be comfortably settled into their new home at 309 Cassie Street in Pierz. Formal ground breaking for the two-bedroom house is set to take place at 4 p.m. on … Continue reading →

Although his radio and vehicle were disabled, a Little Falls police officer escaped injury after exchanging gun fire with two suspects. On Wednesday at 11:45 p.m., the un-named police officer initiated a traffic stop on Lindbergh Drive north after a … Continue reading →

The Upsala School District has added two new teachers to its staff for the upcoming school year. New to the district are Robert Johnson and Gretchen Schleper. Johnson and his wife Christina have one child, Camilla, and they reside in … Continue reading →

The Pierz Fire Department memorialized victims of the 9-11-2001 terrorist attack on America with a reenactment of the raising of the U.S. Flag at Ground Zero in New York City. Created for the Pierz Oktoberfest Parade last Sunday, the float … Continue reading →

The drum corps of the St. Cloud All-City High School Marching Band kept cadence in the Pierz Lions Parade Sunday in Pierz. Clad in snappy black and white uniforms, the group drew applause from the crowd as the community celebrated … Continue reading →

Adding humor to the Oktoberfest Parade Sunday in Pierz was the entry from Red Rooster in Genola. To the astonishment of thousands of spectators lining the parade route, the backward-forward vehicle revved in opposite directions before splitting in two. With … Continue reading →

She is pictured with son Brodi, right, and nieces Tori and Taylor Dobis at the base of a street light near the Pierz Villa where she spotted the specially marked Oktoberfest button Thursday evening. The daily clues that led the … Continue reading →

Jacky Jaeger of Genola was the 2002 Pierz Oktoberfest treasure hunt winner.

(Pictured are Little Falls City Council members looking over the concrete slab now in place at Jaycee Park on the city’s westside. The slab is now being used by bikers, skateboarders and those with roller blades. The slab will be … Continue reading →