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It wasn’t quite the end to the regular season that the Brownton Bruins had hoped for, as the team dropped its final two Crow River Valley League games last week to head into the Region 7C playoffs with an 11-7 circuit record.
Brownton suffered a 6-3 loss at Young America Wednesday, July 17. The hosts held a 1-0 lead until the eighth inning, when Deryk Randt smashed a three-run homer to plate Ryan Grams and Dylan Maiers and give the Bruins a 3-1 advantage.
The lead barely lasted, however, as the Cardinals seized control of the contest with five runs in the bottom of the eighth.

Work to extend Morningside Drive north through the railroad crossing to County Road 15 have been shelved until next year, McLeod County announced last week.
The project is intended to move traffic to Highway 212 more efficiently and away from a school/residential neighborhood. It will open a crossing of the railroad tracks at Morningside Drive and create a link to County Road 15 at a roundabout. In exchange for the opening at Morningside, the city has agreed to close the existing railroad crossing at Union Avenue.

(For the complete story, see the July 24 print edition of The Chronicle.)

A piece of the community’s history quietly sits in the basement of Glencoe City Center waiting for its time to be returned to public view.
A bell that called students to school from its mounted position over Henry Hill School has spent years in the basement, said Gloria Hilgers of the Glencoe Historical Preservation Society (GHPS). The society is in the early stages of planning how it wants to display the historic cast-iron bell and fundraising for the display.

Agricultural safety and health resources will be a continued focus of a new exhibition space at this year’s Farmfest.
Farm Bureau Financial Services and the Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (UMASH) at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health will provide Farmfest’s 30,000 attendees with critical health, safety and wellness resources during Minnesota’s annual agricultural trade show, held Aug. 6-8 in Redwood County, Minn.

(For the complete story, see the July 24 print edition of The Chronicle.)

Dave Anderson and Roger Walck will present a concert at 7 p.m., Tuesday, July 30, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Glencoe.
Dinner and a meet-and-greet will be at 6 p.m. The concert is sponsored by Good Shepherd.
Anderson and Walck’s music is a blend of contemporary, gospel, hymns, and lots of old-time Sunday School songs. The audience will be invited to sing along but, as Anderson said, "so long as it's the same song."

(For the complete story, see the July 24 print edition of The Chronicle.)