Hanson sells restaurant concept to 3 employees Long-standing lakes country staple, Spanky’s Stone Hearth, announced a change in ownership on Wednesday, Dec. 14. The popular fine dining restaurant will change hands in May 2023 from current owner and proprietor, Josh Hanson, to tenured employees Matthew Hanson, Michael Kasper and Jared Faul who will own and… Read More

Local resident provides a gift to FCC residents By Robert Williams Editor Sharon Guck of Frazee continued a self-started fundraiser to annually benefit residents at the Frazee Care Center providing a gift and a poinsettia to 55 people. “I started this many years ago, seven or eight years ago,” said Guck. Guck, a Mary Kay representative, picked up… Read More

Frazee-area volunteers are celebrating the collection of gift-filled shoeboxes that will send a message to children around the world: God loves you, and you’re not forgotten. Thousands of volunteers contributed to Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse by packing shoeboxes filled with fun toys, school supplies, and hygiene items. The global Christmas project will… Read More

Essentia Health St. Mary’s-Detroit Lakes is proud to welcome Dr. Ben Olsen, who will specialize in podiatry. “After researching Essentia, I found that the mission and values of the health system harmonize well with how I view and practice modern health care,” said Dr. Olsen. Dr. Olsen received his medical degree from Des Moines University and completed… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Well, here we go, the first major snowfall of the year. The city guys did a great job Wednesday and Thursday and were going out again on Friday morning around 2 a.m. The PD had written only one parking citation those first two nights and I must say the streets… Read More

Frazee native Brian Mayfield will be promoted to Director of Operations for Ultimate Windows at Marvin, effective January 1, 2023.  In this elevated role, Mayfield will oversee the operations of Marvin manufacturing facilities in Warroad and Grafton, aligning operations efficiency, effectiveness, communications, and overall business results. Mayfield will have a team of plant managers, manufacturing managers,… Read More

Department of Commerce regulates landline phone services in Minnesota Prompted by continuing service complaints from Minnesota consumers, the Department of Commerce last week filed a brief asking the Public Utilities Commission to order telephone service provider CenturyLink to submit plans to fix a pattern of service deficiencies and to upgrade processes for responding to outages. PUC rules… Read More

Minnesota State University, Mankato awarded 2,193 degrees to 1,936 students at the end of the fall 2022 semester, including  Taylor Drewes, GC, Family Consumer Science Education, of Frazee. Commencement ceremonies are scheduled for 9 a.m. and noon Saturday, Dec. 10 in Taylor Center’s Bresnan Arena on the Minnesota State Mankato campus.    Graduate degrees awarded included 39… Read More

5 years ago Frazee-Vergas Forum December 21, 2017 Samantha Riggles, 21, is certain she would be near death’s door and living in despair if it weren’t for a doctor, a policeman and her newborn baby. The former Frazee High School student was supposed to graduate in 2015, but dropped out to chase an addiction. She had lost… Read More

Contributed photo Amanda Wollschlager of Montevideo was visiting her aunt Diane Quiram in Frazee last weekend and caught a beautiful shot of the skating rink. “I couldn’t help but stop to admire your ice skating rink,” Wollschlager said. “It truly reminded me of something out of a Hallmark Christmas movie so I just had to… Read More