The idea of a pod model daycare was a topic of discussion at meetings held in Montevideo in 2023 when the City began working with Rural Childcare Innovation Program to develop a community solution action plan. The idea, a fairly new concept in Minnesota, allows up to four in-home daycare providers to operate out of the same building independently in order to help address the childcare shortage that exists throughout the state, but especially in rural areas.

Take a Kid Ice Fishing Weekend is Saturday, Jan. 18, through Monday, Jan. 20.

Recently, former Montevideo basketball coach Denny Smith returned to the school as a speaker at the Thunder Hawk boys basketball team’s weekly program “We Wednesday”.

This week, a man involved in an incident that led to an officer shooting in September of 2023 was sentenced in Chippewa County Courts to 84 months in prison, with credit for 423 days already served.