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    Observer/Advocate
    P.O. Box 429
    Mt. Lake, MN 56159
    Phone: 507-427-2725
    Fax: 507-427-2724


     
    Wednesday, March 10, 2010





    TOWN’S EDGE EMPLOYEES give a big “thumbs up” after receiving word last Friday that their franchise with General Motors Corporation is being continued. From left, Todd Johnson, Jeff Blickem, Roger Rahn, Joel Riihl, Duane Derksen, Aaron Walklin, Julie Will, and Brian Harder.
    Town’s Edge Auto learns it will retain General Motors franchise into the future
    In a move that could provide economic relief for hundreds of communities nationwide, General Motors Corporation (GM) has decided to reinstate certain dealerships that it had planned to drop from its sales network. Mt. Lake’s Town’s Edge Auto received their good news via a telephone call last Friday.
    Golden finish at State
    Windom-Mt. Lake-Butterfield-Odin senior Spencer Johnson closed his high school career in grand fashion Saturday, defeating Michael Kroells of Scott West to capture the Class AA 189-pound state championship.
    B-O Secondary questions its overhaul status
    “Shock. Shock and surprise.” That’s how Butterfield-Odin Public School Superintendent Lisa Shellum described her reaction, and that of the school’s staff, as well as the district’s pair of involved communities, to last Thursday’s Associated Press news article that named the district’s secondary school as one of Minnesota’s 34 schools facing an overhaul under President Barack Obama’s “tough-love” approach to low-performing schools.
    Waste hauling bid to Hometown Sanitation
    After April 1, Hometown Sanitation of Windom will be the city’s new waste hauler.


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