Nineteen of the 60 graduates of the Montgomery High School Class of 1961 gathered at the American Bar & Grill in Montgomery for a 65th reunion luncheon. Class member Evelyn (Prchal) Duban says it’s something they do every year.
The 1961 class was the 58th annual commencement for the school, which was held in what is now the elementary and middle school auditorium on Friday, May 26 at 8 p.m.
Montgomery’s Eva Tikalsky was crowned 2026-2027 Miss Czech-Slovak Minnesota Queen during the pageant Saturday evening at the Park Ballroom in New Prague.
The daughter of Naima du Chatellier and Christopher Tikalsky, Eva Tikalsky was joined on stage by first princess Wren Zwaschka of Mankato and second princess Evelyn Winget of Nerstrand. The junior ambassadors chosen are Annika Budin of Montgomery, Lillian Skluzacek of Nerstrand, Cailyn Meadows of Montgomery, Abigail Mader of Kilkenny and Clara Winget of Nerstrand.
The Titans will “(Re)Discover” the ’90s for homecoming next week. Rebecca Wiseman, homecoming advisor and high school teacher, put together a fun set of days for students to celebrate, which were announced Monday, Sept. 21 to students during the unveiling in the high school performing arts center during advisory time.
TCU tennis team claims six titles at New Ulm
The results from the new Ulm girls tennis invitational Saturday, Sept. 12 probably couldn’t have gone any better for the Tri-City United (TCU) squad.
Of the 24 matches played against New Ulm, Redwood Valley, and River Valley, The Titans won 21 of them.
Montgomery National Golf Club was extremely busy Thursday, Sept. 10. Not with golfers, but with high school cross country runners.
Close to 350 varsity runners from more than 25 boys and girls teams ran the 5,000-meter course looking to claim the titles at the Gerry Smith Tri-City United (TCU) Invitational.
The local school had their share of runners compete. The boys team placed 18th among the 27 total teams with 499 points. Three TCU girls ran in the women’s race which had 21 complete teams compete.
In addition to those in the photograph with names, this list of classmates and their information was provided.
The Blandin Foundation out of Grand Rapids, Minn., has awarded $4,560,600 in grants for its second quarter of 2026, of which nearly $500,000 was invested in entities that service our area.
This is the report for the Montgomery Fire Department (MFD) from the month of August 2026. A total of five calls were responded to in the month and a total of 61 calls through the end of August. Training in August was on water rescue and confined space rescues with Safety and Security Consultations Specialists (SADCS).
Below are the list of the calls MFD responded to in August 2026.
Boasting words are in the buttons for new artists for Kolacky Days Button Design Contest winners, as seen with new and first-time entrant designers the last few years.
Button design entries for next year’s Kolacky Days festival are being accepted now through Oct. 23. Persons of any age and ability level are welcomed to submit their design.
This year’s designs must include the words “Kolacky Days,” “93rd Annual,” July 23—25, 2027,” and “Montgomery, MN” (or Minn. or Minnesota), and optionally can include “Kolacky Capital of the World.”
Six members of the Montgomery Fire Department (MFD) participated in the 14th Annual 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis., on Sept. 12. This is the the department’s third year participating in the event.
Sept. 11, 2025 was the 25th anniversary of the event of the highjacked airplanes terrorist attack on the United States.
Matthew Paul Traxler, age 36 of Belle Plaine, was arrested and charged on multiple felonies after a traffic stop in Montgomery on Aug. 24, according to the statement of probable cause.
A Montgomery Police officer noticed Traxler’s vehicle with no front license plate driving southbound on Highway 13 in Montgomery at about 4:45 p.m. and initiated a traffic stop. According to the statement, Traxler verbally identified himself and said he didn’t have a driver’s license, wasn’t able to provide proof of insurance, and that he wasn’t the owner of the vehicle.
A 911 call on Friday, Sept. 2, at MGM Apartments in Lonsdale, 321 Southeast 1st Avenue, is a suspected suicide.
Lonsdale Police Chief Jason Schmitz said that a call came in at 12:09 p.m. for a welfare check by the person’s employer after they had not showed up to work the last three days.
This year’s Halfway to St. Paddy’s Day celebration in Kilkenny brought in nice weather with abundant sunshine with pleasant temperatures. One of the largest marching bands in the area, perhaps the state, also made an appearance during Saturday’s 35-unit parade at the request of Andrew McGuinness, mayor of the Kilkenny Municipal District in Ireland, the Lakeville South High School Marching Cougars.
Monday, Aug. 31
- Traffic stop (TS) and issued a warning for failure to maintain lane.
- Assisted (Asst.) with a medical at Traditions.
- TS and arrested an individual for cannabis open package, obstruct legal process, driving after revocation and no insurance.
- Asst. with a medical on Deer Trail.
Tuesday, Sept. 1
Meghan Bastyr has had multiple jobs over her time here on Earth, including being a mom, a heavy equipment operator, farmer, and more. She went to college to be a nurse, but that isn’t what she went straight into out of college.
After graduating nursing school in 2008, she worked with her father Rick Renslow, who was also a late-1980’s World Wrestling Federation pro wrestler, in a landscaping business building boulder walls on lake shorelines. That ended when her father passed away in 2008.