As students across Minnesota return to classrooms this fall, parents are facing a familiar but increasingly expensive ritual: back-to-school budgeting. From school supplies and clothing to daycare and ...

Dassel-Cokato Schools ISD #466 is welcoming a dynamic group of new educators this fall, each bringing a unique blend of experience, enthusiasm and dedication to the classroom. From kindergarten to ...

Gordy Nelson, Paul Johnson, Paul Grangroth, Bruce Bengtson, Douglas Abramson, Chuck Leukuma, Orin Ostlund, John Russell, John Nelson, Brian Benson, Marshall Carlsted ...

Julia Bakke and Ella Johnson were crowned the 2025–26 Dassel Ambassadors on Saturday, Aug. 30, during the annual Red Rooster Days Ambassador Coronation held at Saints Field.Johnson also received the ...

Ideal weather and strong community turnout marked the annual Red Rooster Days celebration in Dassel over Labor Day weekend, drawing hundreds to Saints Field and downtown venues.The multi-day event ...

COSMOS, Minn. — Two men were arrested late Friday night after authorities recovered more than a pound and a half of methamphetamine during a traffic stop on Minnesota Highway 7, according to the ...

19-year-old Dassel man died early Saturday in a single-vehicle crash in Collinwood Township, according to the Meeker County Sheriff's Office. Nolan Henke was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, ...

Terry Scott Kotila, 59, of Cokato, MN, passed away Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025. He was born March 22, 1966. Arrangements by Swanson-Peterson Funeral Homes ...

Custom Golf Carts of Minnesota moves its operations to Cokato. After more than a decade of building custom golf carts in a tucked-away shop and garage near Dassel, Tim Trocke and Rob Veatch knew it ...

Here’s a flashback to 1998 where former Dassel Princess Kristin Terning was wearing a chicken costume, representing Red Rooster Days while reading the Enterprise Dispatch at a parade in Anoka with ...

EDEN VALLEY, Minn. — A Burtrum man was killed Friday afternoon in a collision involving two semi-trucks on Highway 55 west of Eden Valley, in Meeker County, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.

Aquatennial royalty Princess Erica Bakke, Queen of the Lakes Addie Lundin of Litchfield, and Princess Hannah Wilson of Howard Lake all attended the parade, representing a stretch of small towns along ...