Ronald A. Mellies, 71, of Hector, passed away on Thursday, March 23, at Olivia Restorative Therapy and Nursing in Olivia. Celebration of Life was Friday, April 14, at the Hector ...

Since its founding more than four years ago, until now the consolidator’s branding convention has been unchallenged.

When Beth Kargas was startled, at 23 years old in her routine city staff job, by a directive from then city Administrator Bruce Miller, to take over as head of the sprawling Litchfield Cemetery, ...

Over the past several years at the Hutchinson Leader – and plenty of times at prior publications – I have placed those I interview in an awkward position. But it’s a position ...

Pent-up demand for community celebrations and gatherings of friends bloomed this past weekend as Litchfield celebrated Watercade. Last year’s Watercade – like most community festivals ...

Craig Miller, 55, of Foley, passed away on May 3, after a heroic 19-month battle with cancer – nobody tougher! A celebration of life will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 9, at ...

The Litchfield Parade of Bands is coming back. Shelved by the coronavirus pandemic last summer, the festival that brought 11 high school marching bands to compete on the streets of Litchfield in ...

It feels good to work hard. This past week that’s exactly what members of the Hutchinson Marching Tigers did as they put in full-time hours to kick off the season. With practice 8 a.m.-4 ...

Litchfield High School’s gymnasium became a movie-worthy set Saturday afternoon as the school’s juniors and seniors participated in their prom grand march, which carried a Hollywood ...

The McLeod County Fair had its best year of attendance in 2022 with 50,000 visitors over four days. Fair manager Casey Walters delivered the news to the County Board this past week, and thanked ...

Litchfield’s Parade of Bands will return again this summer. The marching band festival, which started in 2019, was canceled in 2020 due to the CO-VID pandemic, and made a comeback during the ...

Like other members of the Litchfield Police Department, Gary Gruenke is used to pulling extra duty during Watercade week. From traffic control after the fireworks Friday night and during the Grand ...