5 years ago

Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021

Have you ever wondered what some of New York Mills’ most important landmarks look like carved in corn? Well, the Otter Berry Farm in rural NY Mills has spent the better part of 2021 planning just how it will carve a giant Lund boat and the iconic farmer and tractor at the Sculpture Park in a field of corn. The new design of the Otter Berry Corn Maze was recently unveiled and features a strong NY Mills flare, which includes the community’s saying of “Small Town Big Life.” The corn maze is set to open Sept. 11 and will go through Oct. 31, with a variety of games, actives and opportunity to head outside during the fall season.

A packed crowd watched as the New York Mills School Board formally approved its back to school plan. During its regularly scheduled meeting last Monday night, seven people from the audience spoke about the district’s plan. Six of the parents and staff members spoke in favor of keeping masking by students and staff members optional, while one person asked the district to have masks be made mandatory in light of a recent surge in COVID-19 cases in the region.

Jake Dykhoff was dominant on the hill as the right hander overpowered Carver on Sunday to help the Bluffton Braves advance to the round of 16 at the Class C state baseball tournament on Sunday. Dykhoff allowed the first two hitters to reach base, Connor Cornell led off the game with a double that one-hopped the fence in left center. Kyle Dalton followed for Carver with a single to bring Cornell around to score in the top of the first inning. Dykhoff allowed just 3 more hits the rest of the way as he struck out 10 hitters and walked just 2 as the Braves defeated the Black Sox 3-1.

35 years ago

Wednesday, Sept. 5, 1991

For the first time the New York Mills School District will be offering School Age Child Care for the elementary students. The program was planned to be offered at the elementary school but due to low preregistration at this time, the program will be available in the  home of a licensed Day Care provider in the community. Jana Berube, operator of  Kinderkare Day Care, has been contacted to provide the service. She will serve the students a snack each day after school and will offer activities for the students to do. Transportation will be provided for the students each day to Kinderkare. If and when the number of students who use the program grows beyond a number than Mrs. Berube 

can accommodate, the program will be moved to the elementary  and staffed by a provider at that site. 

Dominating defense and timely offensive lifted NYM over Osakis 18-7. Friday night saw the 1991 season for New York Mills get underway in excellent fashion. The Eagles defeated Osakis in a decisive manner with dominating defense and some timely offense. The game started slowly for both offenses, but some stellar defense was played with neither team able to get much established on the offensive side of the ball. The Eagles finally broke into the scoring column with a 13 play 46-yard drive that was capped by a tremendous  run by Terry Frost who scored from 9 yards out. Osakis finally got going on offense with 1:33 remaining in the first half as they took possession on the Eagle 19-yard line, but four plays later both teams were headed for half time intermission with the Eagles ahead 6-0. The second half was much of the same as both teams continued to play excellent defense. The Eagles were able to put together two short drives that were capped off by Chris Roberts  1-yard and 4-yard touchdown runs that helped put the game out of reach. Osakis scored with 1:13 left to end the scoring at 18-7 in favor of New York Mills. The game was a total team effort with the special teams, defense

and offense playing great!

Otter Tail County Sheriff Gary A. Nelson has announced that citizens who would like to join law enforcement officials in the fight against  crime now have a way to show their support of that fight. Sheriff Nelson is asking those citizens to become Honary Members of the Minnesota State Sheriffs Association.The association is a professional and educational organization dedicated to the preservation of peace and the protection of the lives and property of the citizens of Minnesota. Annual dues are $20. Funds generated by membership dues are used to support crime prevention and awareness programs, promote public safety, and provide more and improved  training for sheriffs and their deputies. The association uses statewide resources to help local sheriffs and deputies better protect the men, women and children of Minnesota.

50 years ago

Thursday, Sept. 2, 1976

School has begun—for adults also. School can begin for you, to, if you can’t read or if you are a poor reader and maybe gave up trying to learn how to read better than 20 years ago. Census figures show that 180,000 Minnesotans cannot read by their own admission, 63,000 are in the metropolitan area. The problem is to reach these people. We are hopeful children of non-readers or their friends will become aware of the program we are offering and encourage non-readers to readers to sign up. This program is aimed at offering instruction without embarrassment to the person. Instruction can be given at home at a location convenient to both tutor and student. There is no charge for the tutoring but students are to pay for the materials they require, if possible. They should be able to attend regularly at least twice a week. For more information or tutoring call Mrs. Mae Isaacson.

75 years ago

Thursday, Sept. 6, 1951

The number of farms in Otter Tail County is decreasing accordingly to a preliminary census report received by County Agent A.M. Booren recently. In 1945 there were 6,828 farms reported and in 1950 that figure dropped to 6,380. Right in line with this, the average size of farms has changed from 173 acres in 1945 to 183 acres in 1950. This trend compares with conditions throughout the whole country. Farms are getting larger due to the increased use of labor saving equipment. There are more machines being used than ever. The amount of livestock on farms throughout the county is down considerably. There have been decreases in dairy cattle, hogs and sheep during the last five years. It would seem that judging from the present trend it is a good time to expand somewhat on livestock production. Sheep especially, should be good property for several years. If we are to hold our position as a strong dairy county, cow numbers will have to be increased also. 

Finnish radio programs inaugurated last week by station KWAD of Wadena (920 on the dial) were continued this week. Two morning new broadcasts, however, were missed because of technical difficulties beyond control of KWAD and the operator of the remote control equipment in the Herald and Uutiset office in New York Mills. The broadcasters hope to overcome  all these “technical” bugs so that the news broadcast may be heard regularly. It is broadcast every week day at 7:20 a.m. direct from this office.