May 2025
140th class graduates Montevideo High School
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Montevideo golf competes in Section 3AA Championship
Last week, the Montevideo golf teams traveled to the Oakdale Golf Club in Buffalo Lake for the Section 3AA Championship. The boys team took the 9th place spot with a score of 339. Top five scorers follows:
Montevideo Police Reports
*Editors note: Due to space issues all traffic stops of a regular nature, medical assists and assists with transporting inmates have been excluded from this report.
Guess Who?
Each week, the Montevideo American News will share a photograph from our archives for you to “guess who”. To submit your guesses, send us a message by email to jstolen-jacobson@cherryroad.com or message our Facebook page. We will publish the answers the next week.
Memory Care Corner: Mixed Dementia…
Through a series of newspaper articles, we have been learning about some of the major types of dementia. We started with Alzheimer’s type dementia which is the most common type of dementia. We then explored Lewy Body dementia and learned that that can either refer to dementia with Lewy bodies or Parkinson’s disease dementia. The next article focused on Frontotemporal Dementia to which we discovered there are 5 main types: Behavioral Variant, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Corticobasal Syndrome, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, and FTD with ALS. In the last article, we explored Vascular Dementia, the second most common form of dementia. Today, we are going to learn about Mixed Dementia.
Chicks have hatched on the DNR FalconCam
Four newly hatched chicks are now visible on the Minnesota DNR’s popular FalconCam (mndnr.gov/falconcam). The Nongame Wildlife Program’s camera is in a nesting box in downtown St. Paul and will once again provide an intimate look at peregrine falcons raising their young.
Onyx Johnson wins first career feature at Fiesta City Speedway
Racing resumed on Friday night at Fiesta City Speedway after having a wet and cold weekend that forced the races to be canceled. Three new faces were in victory lane on this night.
Milan Community News
Here we are again. Memorial Day weekend. Graduation weekend. Such a busy time. Farmers that haven’t finished planting racing to get done.
Hot weekend ahead
We enjoyed one of the nicest Memorial Day weekends in recent memory! Early on there were some indications of a slight chance of rain impacting the area, but it all tracked to our south on Memorial Day.
75-year recognition award for conservation
A 75-year recognition award was presented to Yellow Medicine Soil & Conservation Board Supervisors by the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources in recognition of bringing water management and conservation to the people and lands of Yellow Medicine County. Pictured L-R Tom Remmele, Jerry Nelson, Darwyn Bach, Luke Olson (BWSR Conservationist), Delon Clarksean