Martha A. Paur, age 78, of Kilkenny, died peacefully at her home on Sunday, August 30, 2020. Funeral services will be held on Friday, September 4, 2020. Visitation will be held 2 hours before Mass at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Montgomery from 8:30-10:30 am. Mass will follow at 10:30 with Fr. Tom Niehaus officiating. Burial will be held at Calvary Cemetery in Montgomery. There will be a luncheon at noon at the American Legion in Montgomery after the burial.

In an about a week students at New Prague Area Schools will be going back to school, although it will be different from past years. Instead of one big day where school faculty, from teachers to principals, are out greeting young students or where middle school and high school students are trying to find their lockers, it will be two days. While those scenes may play out still there will be changes in the way of masks and social distancing. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the 2020- 2021 school year will be one that is going to be vastly different.

Three games and three big wins for the DRS amateur baseball teams playing in the Class C State Tournament last weekend.
St. Patrick, Prior Lake, and Union Hill all advanced to the next round with victories.
The Irish defeated Regal, 5-1. Prior Lake scored 11 runs in the top of the seventh inning to defeat New Ulm, 13-10. Union Hill picked up a 12-7 win over Avon.
St. Patrick will play Rochester Saturday, Aug. 29 at 2 p.m. in Springfield.
Union Hill will play Lamberton Friday, August 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Springfield.

Elko New Market expects to have a new building for its police department later this year as construction on the new structure is progressing on schedule. Greystone Construction of Shakopee is the main contractor on the project, which will add approximately 6,360-square feet to Elko New Market’s City Hall.

Luella Margaret Lapic, 90, died on Wednesday, August 26th, due to complications from a fall.
Lu was born on July 20, 1930 on the family farm in Montgomery as the middle child of Joseph and Anna Choudek.  After graduating from high school, she worked at the bank.  

Gerald “Jerry” Michael, age 88, died peacefully on Friday, August 28, 2020 at the Minnesota Masonic Home in Bloomington, MN. Jerry was born on August 16, 1932 in  New Prague to Leo and Elizabeth (Fitzpatrick) Michael. He attended country school in Helena Township, St. Wenceslaus School and graduated from New Prague High School in 1951.  He played football in high school and was on the St. Patrick baseball team.

Ty Kenny Schoenbauer, age 21, of Wilkinsburg, PA, formerly of New Prague, died tragically by suicide on Sunday, August 23, 2020 in Pittsburgh, PA.  Ty was born on October 26, 1998 in Shakopee and lovingly adopted by Steven and Corrine “Connie” (Sticha) Schoenbauer.  He graduated from New Prague High School and attended Normandale Community College and Gustavus Adolphus College.  Ty was a naturally gifted scholar who learned easily and dabbled in many pursuits, such as learning new languages and exploring the stars and heavens in astronomy.  He had a gift for music, loved to sing and make mu

Paul Bisek of New Prague, MN died Aug. 24, 2020 at his home.  Mass of Christian Burial is set for September 1, 2020 at 11:00 am at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in New Prague.  A private family visitation will start at 10:00 am on Tuesday at the church.  The public will be invited into the church starting at 10:30 am prior to start of the mass at 11:00 am.  For health and safety, all are encouraged to wear masks.

Joseph (Joe) Frank Scheffler, age 98, of rural New Prague, passed away peacefully on Friday, August 21, 2020, at Traditions of Montgomery, where he and Evelyn have resided for nearly two months.   Joe was born on April 7, 1922, on a farm in Helena Twp., Scott County, MN to George and Anna (Jacques) Scheffler.   His loving wife, Evelyn and his children, are gratefull to have been able to spend days and nights with him until he passed.  

Ann Marie Wood (Luedtke) passed away peacefully at her home July 17, 2020.
Ann was the youngest of the four children of H. Walter and Thora Luedtke. She was born on a farm in Fairmont MN where she graduated from high school. She married her late husband Charles Wood, also of Fairmont on July 17, 1953. In 1971 Chuck and Ann moved their family to a farm on Pleasant Lake in New Prague from Minneapolis.

This week marks the beginning of my 21st year at The New Prague Times and it’s definitely not how I imagined it would be.
Talking with Tony Buthe with the New Prague Area Schools and Chuck Kajer’s name came up. His death is still something that’s hard to accept. It’s been a year of learning all of the things he would take care of. Last week’s Back to School section was one aspect. There have been and will be other sections that we have to plan for where Chuck usually took the lead. You’re still missed my friend.

Elko New Market’s roundabout at the intersection of Main Street and Natchez Avenue, which are also Scott County Highways 2 and 91, respectively, is on schedule. If the work on the partial multi-lane roundabout continues as scheduled the roundabout will open on Tuesday, Aug. 25.
City Administrator Tom Terry said a ribbon cutting for the project will be held after lights are installed.

New Prague entered the 10-team Region 3C amateur baseball tournament as the No. 6 seed.
They ended the tournament as the Region 3C Champions.
The Orioles upset No. 3 seed Lonsdale, 3-1, edged No. 2 seed Prior Lake, 5-4, and knocked off No. 1 seed St. Patrick, 3-1, to claim the region's No. 1 seed in the Class C State Tournament.
In the championship game, New Prague scored first with a pair of runs in the top of the fourth inning.

The filing for local elections closed at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 11, creating several races for the city councils in New Prague and Elko New Market. For the New Prague School Board there are six people running for five seats. Area residents will decide who will serve in the general election on November 3.

Rita Ann Way, 84, of Montgomery, died on August 9, 2020, in New Prague.
Funeral services and visitation will be held Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, at Most Holy Redeemer Church. Visitation will be held from 9:30 to 11 a.m., with a Mass to follow. Officiating will be Father Thomas Neihaus.
Rita was born in Montgomery to Thomas and Anna (Flicek) Moravec on October 11, 1935. She graduated from Montgomery-Lonsdale Schools in 1953.

Valdene Martha Hodapp, 88, died on Monday, August 17, 2020, at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, WI, due to complications from a fall.
Val was born on January 6, 1932, to Fred and Caroline (Tietz) Bohnsack on the family farm in Lanesburgh Township, Le Sueur County, Minnesota.  She attended a one-room schoolhouse as a child, and went to high school in New Prague and Jordan.  On October 10, 1949, she married Gregor John Hodapp at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Jordan.