Luxemburg is a small town south of St. Cloud along Highway 15 located in the St. Augusta city limits. I talked with longtime Luxemburg residents Norb Fischer and Paul Koshiol.
Watkins is a small town in northern Meeker County in Central Minnesota with a population of 962. The town is incorporated and has had a post office since 1887. Watkins is west of Kimball and east of Eden Valley located along Highway 55.
WJON's Small Town series takes us this time to Gilman, Minnesota. Gilman is a town of 224 people located north of Foley where Highway 25 and County Road 3 intersect in Benton County.
WJON's Small Town Friday series took us this time to Rice, Minnesota. Rice is a community of 1,275 people, located in Benton County north of Sauk Rapids. For this feature I talked with Mary Ostby from the Benton County Historical Society, Rice Mayor Brian Skroch and Rice Police Chief Ross Hamann.
Bowlus is a town of 279 people that was settled in the early 1900s, platted in 1907 and became incorporated in 1910. Bowlus has an operating post office since 1907, a lumberyard, meat market, hair salon, restaurant, gas station, liquor store, boutique, fire department, park with bike trail going through it, Legion, and Catholic Church.
St. Augusta in an incorporated town just south of St. Cloud in Stearns County. The town has approximately 30 square miles and has a population of 3,497 people based on the most recent census.
Most towns have banners of some sort lining their main street welcoming residents and guests and generally "dressing" the street up. Avon takes it one step further.
In 2006 gorgeous works of stained glass art were installed on the lamp posts of Avon Ave. by ...