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The 92nd Annual Homemade Kolacky Days Baking Contest winners for each category receive $50 for first, $25 for second, and $15 for third, each in Monty Bucks. This year’s youth winner was the only entrant.
Best Tasting Traditional Kolacky
Must be prune or poppyseed. Judged on looks, smell, taste, and texture.
1st Mary Holtz (Prune)
2nd Janell Franta (Prune)
3rd Ceske Damy (Prune)
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Adults competing in the Kolacky Eating Contest must try to scarf down six of the fruit-filled buns, while youth ages 12 and under must eat three, and then yell “Kolacky Days” to officially complete their challenge.
Winner of the competition gets a medal, kolacky to take home, a giant commemorative Kolacky Days button, and is declared the Kolacky King, male or female. All participants get to keep any kolacky they don’t finish, and that makes it a win either way.
Bohemian Tractor Pull Winners
Open
Krocak Farm Team
15-time champions
Over 40
Nut Busters
16-time champions
Business/Organization
Selly Concrete
Youth
The Out-Of-Towners
Women
Krocak Women
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It was an extremely hot day on Sunday, July 26 for the Kolacky Days Grand Day Parade with temperatures reaching in the upper 90's by parade time and dew point temperatures in the mid-to-upper 70's. This kept a few of the over 110 parade units from attending this day and announcer Larry Jindra and KCHK announcers scrambling in their lineup sheets.
Montgomery Mallards 15, Shakopee Coyotes 5 (Five innings)
The postseason arrived in high fashion at Memorial Field on Sunday, Aug. 2 as the Montgomery Mallards unleashed a relentless 23-hit attack to claim a commanding 15-5 victory over Shakopee in game one of their best-of-three series.
Hello again everyone:
I could not help but to rebuttal Danny O’Keefe’s reason for running.
He says he is level-headed. So why did you make a motion and vote yes to double the outlet ditch to drain Lexington Lake faster and way earlier than ever!?
He says he is very knowledgeable of county ditches. What you did to Lexington Lake is the reason for a potential and pending lawsuit against Le Sueur County.
He says he uses common sense approach. Is that why three other people are running against you?
The TCU Junior Legion baseball team capped off a thrilling 2026 summer campaign, cementing their standing as one of the premier programs in the region by capturing the Metro Junior Legion League Tier 1A Division Championship and earning a third place finish at the Tier 1A State Tournament.
Competing in Tier 1A, a division designated for high schools with grades 10–12 enrollments between 400 and 1,000, TCU put together a dominant, high-octane season built on relentless base running, clutch hitting, and deep pitching.
Library Assistant Karen Gustafson spent her last day at the Montgomery Public Library on Thursday, July 30, like it was any other day attending to the usual customers through closing time.
Gustafson, now age 61, started working at the library in February 2006. “The first week was tough because the librarian was still getting her feet wet and so the two of us kind of had to figure things out on our own. It was kind of like a rollercoaster,” said Gustafson.