Archive - 2018

For nearly all of his life, there have been three indelibly linked constants in Jack Noennig’s life — family, music and education.
Sunday, Dec. 16, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Noennig and the 29 members of the Community Strings will perform holiday concerts at 3 and 7 p.m. The group has been rehearsing for weeks to make the concert additionally special for the audience.
“The sound we have this year is probably better than anything we’ve ever had,” Noennig said.

(For the complete story, see the Dec. 12 print edition of The Chronicle.)

Following its successes at Ortonville a week ago, the GSL Knowledge Bowl team traveled to Dawson-Boyd High School Saturday for the team’s second December meet. Most of the teams in the region were there, including ACGC, CMCS, CCS, Dawson-Boyd, GSL, Hutchinson, Lac qui Parle Valley, Lester Prairie, MACCRAY, Montevideo, Ortonville, Willmar, and Yellow Medicine East. Those 13 schools brought 16 varsity, 11 JV, and 23 junior high teams. The meet was a little bit unusual in having only three oral rounds, so overall scores are a little lower than normal.

A McLeod County District Court judge sentenced Glencoe’s Timothy Daniel Miller to prison time for assaulting an infant left in his care so intently the child suffered brain damage.
Friday, Dec. 7, Judge Jody Winters sentenced Miller to 75 months – 50 in prison and 25 months in supervised release for the assault on a 5½-month old child left in his care at a house on Baldwin Avenue last January. He remained in the county jail Monday, Dec. 10, awaiting assignment to a prison facility by the Minnesota Department of Corrections.

The McLeod County Board worked through the agenda quickly at its regular meeting — until the end. At the meeting, a group of concerned residents sat together ominously to the right of the podium. Among those men was a 22-year veteran on the board, Ray Bayerl. Bayerl asked if the board would be willing to rearrange the “public comment” section of the meeting to before item F, which was the final approval of the county’s consolidation project. Commissioner Joe Nagel agreed.

Dozens of volunteers from Glencoe area churches and the community will present a holiday tradition Saturday evening at Oak Leaf Park.
A Living Nativity will be presented from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Visitors should enter the park from its southernmost entrance and turn left at Vollmer Field.