Archive - Jun 19, 2019

Mildred ZumHofe, wife of Harold, 90, of Norwood Young America, passed away Tuesday, June 18, at GlenFields Living with Care in Glencoe.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, June 22, 11 a.m., at Emanuel Lutheran Church in Hamburg, with interment following in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be held Friday, June 21, 4 to 7 p.m., at Emanuel Lutheran Church in Hamburg, and will continue one hour prior to the service at the church Saturday.

Glencoe-Silver Lake softball pitcher Brianna Wraspir was named to the Class AA All-State second team by the Minnesota Fastpitch Softball Coaches Association Thursday, June 13. Wraspir posted 211 strikeouts during her senior season, helping the Panthers to a 17-6 record and the Wright County Conference West co-championship.

A crew from Schneider Excavating continued work Monday morning, June 17, on the storm water pond that will serve Kwik Trip and a possible hotel just off the intersection of Highway 212 and Falcon Avenue. The city says the pond is just under one acre, is about 10 feet deep and will hold around 1.5 million gallons of storm water.

Olivia Maita Gonzalez, 7, of Silver Lake, was more interested in petting the cow than guessing its age and weight during Silver Lake's Dairy Days festivities June 13. Gonzalez won Miss Royalty International's Miss Midwest and competes for national honors in Milwaukee, Wis. this August.

Dreams of a state championship didn’t die without a fight as the Glencoe-Silver Lake baseball team took a pair of seeded teams to the limit before falling in back-to-back games at the state Class AA tournament in St. Cloud last week.
Unseeded GSL faced No. 1 seed Duluth Marshall in the state opener on Thursday, June 13, before taking on fourth-seeded Perham in the consolation semifinal the next day, falling by a single run in both games to end the season with a 19-7 record.
“I’m extremely proud and thankful,” coach Dean Schwirtz said after the Perham loss.