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Mandy Adamini shows some of the balls that are used to help autistic elementary students with their large muscle skills at the Cosmos Learning Center.
(Tribune photo by Carolyn Lange)

Regional autism program expands services in Cosmos, Minn.

An autism program operating in Cosmos that had primarily focused on teaching older students up to age 21 has now been expanded to include kindergarten and elementary-aged students. The expanded...

extra / news / region / education Sat, Nov 12, 2011 - 2:53am

ACGC North Elementary third-grade students Hannah Morrison, left, and Lilly Wattnem get their first look Friday at their dictionaries as Litchfield Rotary member Steve Kess watches in their classroom in Atwater. Members of the Litchfield Rotary Club gave dictionaries to all of the third-grade students in the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City District, also visiting ACGC South in Cosmos on Friday. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

Dictionaries distributed at elementary schools in Cosmos, Atwater, Minn.

news / region / education Sat, Nov 12, 2011 - 12:00am

Spicer, Minn., man faces arson, property damage charges for driving Jeep through fields, burning it

WILLMAR -- Dale Duaine Binger, 43, of Spicer, made his first court appearance Thursday on a felony arson charge and a misdemeanor property charge for allegedly driving a Jeep through...

news / local Sat, Oct 01, 2011 - 12:00am

Rod Olson of Willmar, left, moves a freshly cut plank from the saw mill as Brent Ringler of Belgrade and Charlie Zaeska of Atwater, right, set up the log for another cut during a demonstration Saturday at Atwater Threshing Days. The annual threshing event featured a variety of agricultural displays including threshing and tractor parades. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

Threshing Days in Atwater, Minn.

news / local Mon, Sep 12, 2011 - 12:00am

Zaeska gets ace at Island Pine

Dave Zaeska made a hole-in-one at Island Pine Golf Club in Atwater on Sunday. He used a gap wedge from 130 yards on No. 7 for his second lifetime ace.

sports Tue, Aug 30, 2011 - 12:00am

(Tribune photo by Rand Middleton)
Norway Lake-Sunburg Lakers second baseman Nate Schlagel tags out Atwater Chuckers' Justin Schroeder attempting to take second in the fifth inning on a play at the plate Sunday at Sunburg in the championship game of the County Line League Playoffs.

Amateur Baseball: Norway Lake-Sunburg wins County Line playoffs on infield single in 9th

SUNBURG -- Norway Lake-Sunburg completed an impressive march through the County Line League playoff bracket by nudging Atwater 6-5 in the bottom of the ninth inning on Sunday. Atwater already...

sports Mon, Aug 01, 2011 - 12:00am

Roger and Jo Holm's upside-down pine tree has been planted with celosia and a trailing sedum with hostas and impatiens at the base. (Tribune photo by Rand Middleton)

13th annual garden tour Tuesday in Kandiyohi County, Minn.

The Kandiyohi County Horticulture Society's 13th annual free garden tour is set for 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Atwater area. Jo and Roger Holm, KCHS members from Atwater,...

extra / local Sat, Jul 23, 2011 - 12:00am

Jack Tatge, left, of Willmar and Stanley Brosch of St. Paul work Friday morning in the Hope Garden on Darlene Bratberg's farm north of Spicer. The garden supplies food for the Hope Care Pantry, the Harvest Church Care Pantry and the food shelves in New London and Willmar. Last year's garden provided more than 100 bushels of tomatoes and cucumbers, 300 bushels of sweet corn, 6 tons of potatoes, as well as dozens of other fresh garden vegetables to people in need. Volunteer gardeners work in the garden eve...

news / local Sat, Jul 23, 2011 - 12:00am

Atwater, Minn.'s., Tanner blanks Brownton with 2-hitter

ATWATER -- A two-run single by Atwater's Jeff Peterson in the second put the first two on the board and started the Chuckers on the way to a 4-0 win...

sports Wed, Jul 06, 2011 - 12:00am

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Goracke named K-6 principal at ACGC

GROVE CITY -- Kodi Goracke has been hired as the new K-6 grade principal at the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City School District. The ACGC School Board unanimously approved her appointment on Monday...

news Wed, Jun 29, 2011 - 12:00am

Shutdown could force schools to borrow money for payroll

GROVE CITY -- Sherri Broderius has a stack of papers an inch thick on her desk that the state Attorney General was required to send government entities regarding temporary funding...

news / local Wed, Jun 29, 2011 - 12:00am

Rhonda and Kevin Christoffers of Atwater decided this spring that they needed help in cleaning out all the extra "stuff" in their home. The storage shelves in the garage, along with the shelves and racks in their bedroom closet were over-flowing with "stuff." For years, the Christoffers have done what many over-extended Americans do:
Buy stuff and stash it away.
It was time to de-clutter their home and to simply their lives. (Submitted photo)

Atwater, Minn., family seeks professional help to simplify their home, lives

Walking past a spick-and-span kitchen to a beautifully decorated living room, it's hard to imagine that Rhonda and Kevin Christoffers have a problem that needs fixing. "It's in closets.

extra / news / local / life Sat, Jun 25, 2011 - 8:29am

Tidy Tightwad: Quick tips

* If you buy something, a like item must leave the house * Deal with mail immediately.

extra / local / life Sat, Jun 25, 2011 - 8:27am

Willmar woodcarver Fred Cogelow's "A Penny Saved" is a life-size statue based on photographic studies of Zona Niece, also of Willmar. (Submitted photo)

Cogelow woodcarving exhibits scheduled in Atwater, Minn.

ATWATER -- ARTmeyerson Gallery presents "A Penny Saved," a show of woodcarvings by Fred Cogelow, from 1 to 5 p.m. Friday and 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday. There will...

life / showcase / local Thu, Jun 23, 2011 - 9:06am

Gradyn Grahn, 2, of Atwater, left, is the spider to his 5-year-old sister Giselle's Little Miss Muffet on Friday night at the annual Atwater Festival Days Kiddie Parade. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

Kiddie parade in Atwater, Minn.

news / local Sat, Jun 18, 2011 - 12:00am

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