Category Archives: Community News

Sandbulte to leave Edgerton Food Center

Jill Fennema Changes are coming at the Edgerton Food Center. Bill Sandbulte, who has been with the grocery store since 2003, has decided to pursue a different career. He has been hired as the new head cook at Southwest Christian

City moves to continue Phase 1

By Jill Fennema The other major item on the council agenda last week Wednesday was a change order for Phase 1 of the Capital Improvement Plan. Because the city had funds remaining to be used towards that phase, they added

Digitized newspaper archives available

By Jill Fennema The Pipestone County Historical Society has recently launched its Newspaper Digitization Database in collaboration with Advantage Archive. The first phase of the project is now complete, with newspapers from 1879 to 1915 fully digitized. The archive includes

Edgerton Bakery has a new manager

The Edgerton Bakery has a new manager. The bakery is still owned by Carl and Stacie Nagel, but they have chosen Hope Kirkpatrick to serve as the manager. Hope has been with the bakery for over a year. She and

School News from EPS 2nd and 3rd Grade

Second grade news The two second grade classes have been counting the school days every morning since school began back on August 26. We talk about odds and evens, skip count, and count money using our school day numbers. We

Diamonds through the Decades

By Jill Fennema The 75th Annual Edgerton Dutch Festival is starting to take shape. As of this printing, the festival is only 142 days away! The festival committee has chosen the theme for the parade and that is, “Diamonds through

School News from SWC grades 2-3

2nd Grade News Mrs. Van Schepen and Mrs. Van Iperen Wow! We can’t believe we have been in 2nd grade for 100 days already! It feels like we just started, but we have learned so much and had so much

Edgerton Election Results

Faith and family fill 100 years for Feikema

By Jill Fennema – On November 3, Irene (Schaap) Feikema will celebrate her 100th birthday. Her family has an open house planned in her honor on her birthday in the Verdoes Room at Edgebrook Care Center. Irene was born in

Leota Park receives funds

On Wednesday, August 21, Nobles Co-op Electric, along with CoBank, a national cooperative bank, donated $10,000 to the Leota Park Board. The funds were to help defer the costs of their recent upgrades. The upgrades at the park included doubling