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City to seek grant for low-income home improvement
In 2023, Litchfield created a Housing Task Force to review the results of a comprehensive housing study and create an action plan to address local housing needs. Thisincludednewhousing development and rehabilitation of existing housing.
Another book for Johnson
Julianne Johnson knew before she finished her first book last year that there probably would be more. It didn’t take the Grove City native long to make that come true.
Another crowning moment?
Raina Kaping will join 45 other candidates in the Minneapolis Aquatennial Ambassador Organization Candidate Program next month. Kaping, a 2023 Litchfield High School graduate, served as Miss Litchfield during the 2022-2023 royalty year.
Ostmark Church will celebrate 130 years Sunday
Ostmark Lutheran Church will celebrate its 130th anniversary and dedicate a new playground June 23. The celebration includes a 10 a.m.
Precision ag’s promised revolution coming slowly
For 20 years, Pablo Sobron sought a better way to learn exactly what was in the soil, rock or any other substance on Mars. Instead of sampling and laboratory analysis — the old way of soil testing — scientists began to use lasers and sensors to get high precision data quickly.
Much more to come in summer reading program
The summer reading program is off to an amazing start here at the Litchfield Library. By the end of Week 1, we already had more than 200 people registered! Our first Friday storytime had an incredible turnout with 94 people showing up for our science program sponsored by the Friends of the Litchfield Library.
HAPPENINGS
NEXT SEVEN DAYS THURSDAY, JUNE 20 Storytime 10 a.m. features McLeod County Dairy Princesses who will read stories at the Hutchinson Public Library, 50 Hassan St.
Parachutist lands in Central Park 95 years ago
20 YEARS AGO: NEWS FROM THE ISSUE OF JUNE 24, 2004 It took decades for Lake Ripley to become a weed infested, declining body of water. Organizers of a revived Lake Ripley Improvement Association figured it would take some time to reverse the decline. But just months into the group’s revitalization efforts, the lake on the south end of Litchfield has shown remarkable improvement. And with initial cleanup work going better than expected, members of the Lake Ripley Improvement Association hope to accelerate their quest to “make Lake Ripley the community attraction and asset it ought to be,” said Dr. David Ross, association president. Ross said that in two months of fundraising earlier this year the association raised $14,000, including $2,500 from the city, to be used for improvement efforts. The group contracted with a lake management firm to treat about 35 acres of the the lake to kill curled pond weed, and just one season of treatment led to conditions “beyond what I could have imagined,” Ross told the City Council. “It’s been flat-out amazing.”
Under the ‘Big Top’
Litchfield marching band opens new season with strong performance Litchfield marching band has become a circus, in the best possible way. The Marching Dragons gave their first public performance of their “Big Top” show Sunday at the Friendly City Days parade in Albertville, and it received good reviews from judges and parade goers.