As a rule, we try to keep the names of businesses out of our editorials. But we’re making an exception today to call attention to a venerable landmark in downtown Hutchinson. The State ...

Eugene C. Hillmann, 80, of Fairfax passed away Friday, April 8, 2016, at Buffalo Lake Health Care Center in Buffalo Lake. Funeral service was at 2 p.m. Friday, April 15, at Emanuel ...

Teamwork and craftsmanship are two of the biggest parts in Richard Buchholz’s eighth-grade wood shop class. “What I’ve been trying to do here is simulate a factory process,” he said ...

I stood alone at 2 a.m. at age 13 at the end rows of 20 acres of carrots. Why? My dad was a vegetable farmer in southern Minnesota and needed help spraying for weeds when air was still, and dew ...

I live in a neighborhood that is shared by single-family homes and rental properties. Over the years, I have had numerous items of garbage dumped on my property including 12-foot long florescent ...

Almost 11 months have passed since Hutchinson-area voters passed a $45 million bond referendum to make direly needed building improvements in their schools. Another two years will pass before ...

One of the fun words Leader intern Ruby Redekopp learned this past summer is dwizmuh. At least that is how it is pronounced. The word is actually an acronym – DWSMA – which stands for ...

We don’t ever recall a sarcastic argument,” said Charlie Thor, 103, at a table in Harmony River Living Center. His daughters and in-laws were trickling in as Connie Dallmann, his oldest, ...

Twenty years ago, the first Hutchinson girls hockey players skated onto the ice. Friday night, players and coaches spanning the history of the program gathered to compete again in celebration of ...

State of the Union address, President Gerald Ford famously said “the state of the union is not good.” Following the United States men’s soccer team’s devastating loss last ...

Hutchinson’s Tom Daggett has spent his entire life in Minnesota’s manufacturing industry. His parents “Bud” and Doris Daggett started Hutchinson Manufacturing and Sales Inc. the year ...

One of the issues that gets little discussion, and therefore little priority, is the subject of affordable housing across many cities. It’s hard to understand why not, because the need ...