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Actors in Owatonna High School’s musical may be able to succeed in business
without really trying,
but succeeding on stage takes a lot of work

By DEREK SULLIVAN
dsullivan@owatonna.com

By ASHLEY PETERSON
apeterson@owatonna.com

With the nominations for the Academy Awards just announced, we offer you this year’s quiz to test your knowledge of Oscar winners and losers from the past

The countdown has begun.

Adam and Brayden Martinez have a pretty typical father-son relationship.

This has been the strangest winter I have ever spent in Minnesota. On Jan. 10 it was 56 degrees; I was outside with no coat and ready to start spring work.

It was a year not only of entrances and exits, but also what seemed to be revolving doors.

Voters in the Owatonna school district narrowly reject a ballot initiative that would have allowed the district to expand Willow Creek Intermediate School and purchase the former Pillsbury Baptist Bib

In separate and unrelated cases, two Owatonna City Council members plead guilty to charges.

OWATONNA — In some ways it seemed that the passageway into the board room for the Owatonna school district should have been equipped with a revolving door in 2011.

OWATONNA — After 21 years as a Steele County commissioner, Tom Shea resigned in November in hopes to take a shot at the open county administrator position.