5 years ago

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Members of the New York Mills baseball team mobbed Jacob Guck after he hit a home run in the top of the seventh inning during Thursday’s section championship game against Ashby. The home run put the Eagles up by a score of 6-3 and put an exclamation point on the section tournament. During the tournament, the Eagles defeated a pair of teams ranked in the top 10 in the Class A QRF rankings, including defeating the Ashby Arrows twice. With the win, the Eagles advanced to the state tournament and will take on Sebeka on Tuesday in the opening round of state in St. Cloud, Minn.

Playing by the rules is more important than winning—at least that was the result of the 2021 Great American Think-Off on Saturday night. 

Daniel Tschida, who resides in Minneapolis, Minn., defeated AJ Gil in the finals by arguing that playing by the rules may not result in an immediate gratification, but will result in a long-standing cohesiveness that protects people, both in power and not in power, at the same time.

25 years ago

Thursday, June 21, 1976

While many small towns in our area are struggling to bring people into their communities, NY Mills seems to have things figured out.  The US Census Bureau has recently released the information from the 2000 census and Otter Tail County and the New York Mills area have seen considerable growth over the last 10 years. New York Mills has grown from a population of 943 in 1990 to 1,158 in 2000, an increase of 22.8 percent. The total population for Otter Tail County has increased from 50,714 to 57,159, a 12.7 percent growth rate. NY Mills although on a much smaller scale, is far ahead of the state’s 10-year growth rate of 12.4 percent. 

Area law officers participate in torch run. If you happened to be driving on US Highway 10 between Perham and New York Mills on Monday evening around 6 p.m. you probably thought you’d come upon an accident or a crime of some sort on account of all the patrol cars and flashing lights. But taking a closer look you would have found area law enforcement officers running the Special Olympics “Flame of Hope” along the first leg of a route going from Moorhead to Bierman Field on the campus of the University of Minnesota where the opening ceremonies of the 2001 Special Olympics Minnesota Summer Games will be held on June 21. After covering the 76 miles between Moorhead and NY Mills the runners shared a picnic supper at the school parking lot. The Good Sam Club provided support vehicles for the event and also coordinated meals and shelter for the runners during the four-day run. 

Members of the New York Mills youth bowling took part in the Alexandria Bowling Tournament last weekend. Highlighting the weekend was the doubles team of Cory Vorderbruggen and Josh Tumberg placing third out of 43 teams in Junior Doubles.

50 years ago

Thursday, June 17, 1976

Does lighting come down or go up? That is the question that Hubert Saari is asking himself after the strange experience he had with lighting late Saturday afternoon. While driving along Highway 10 about 31/2 miles east of New York Mills at about 4:30 p.m. , he and Mrs. Saari suddenly found themselves caught in a cloudburst. Accompanying the heavy rain was a sudden flash of lighting that struck their pick-up and momentarily stunned them. Hubert said only a stub of the antenna remained on his pick-up. Most of it was disintegrated from the flash. The lighting also made a large hole in the tarred road surface of the road and completely broke through several of the boards in the bed of the pick-up. He doesn’t know if the lightning came up from the ground under the pick-up to break the pick-up box or if it bounced off the ground and then to the underside of the vehicle. There is also the possibility he relayed, that the tarred surface of the road exploded with such force under the truck that this came up and broke the box. Regardless of what the circumstances are of the direction of the lightning, this was a most unusual  occurrence.

Little Tanya Chaney is the first baby to be born in the New York Mills Community Hospital during the past year. Parents are Mr. snd Mrs. Dennis Chaney of Perham. She was delivered by Miss Nancy Staheli, nurse-midwife who is now serving the Community Hospital in this capacity. Miss Staheli has been serving as nurse-midwife in the Perham area for the past year and is now serving in New York Mills, During the past year she has  delivered 40 babies at  Memorial Hospital.

The band stand, a Central Park landmark, received a little Bi-Centennial dressing up last week a s VFW  members gave the structure a new red, white, and blue look. The painting was done, not only because the building needed it, but in commemoration of the Bi-Centennial and Kesa Juhla to be held this weekend in New York Mills.

75 years ago

Thursday, June 21, 1951

Water fluoridation and dental care will be the topic at Health Council meeting to be held Tuesday June 26 at 1 o’clock p.m. at city hall. All representatives are asked to be present at the meeting. Water fluoridation and dental care care have been discussed during this past winter at meetings of the Health Council. The purpose of adding fluorides to a municipal water supply is to prevent tooth decay. According to scientific surveys and the experience of communities that have added fluorides to their water system, this method of preventing tooth decay has proven to be very effective. Cost of adding fluorides to the water has also been proven to be very cheap it is reported. 

The appeal for funds by the Salvation Army in New York Mills and Otter Tail County was launched last Monday. It is expected that the collection of funds will be completed by Saturday of this week. The Salvation Army has 13 welfare committees in the various communities in Otter Tail County and has the opportunity of reaching every need and serving every area of the county. During the past two years the Salvation Army has provided overshoes, clothing, grocery and fuel orders, flood relief assistance and two pairs of glasses to persons living in this community.