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KB’s owners continue Ghent’s bar and ballroom traditions

When Mark Staufacker was looking for a career opportunity 17 years ago, he decided to try his luck in the bar and restaurant business. Along with his father in law and brother in law, Keith and Kyle Brockberg, he purchased Ghent’s bar and ballroom. A generation ago the business was known as Ted’s Bar. The ballroom was called the Grandview Ballroom. More recently it was called Runia’s, owned by Ryan Runia. When Staufacker and the Brockbergs purchased it, they renamed it KB’s. Mark and Kyle have run the operation on their own since 2013. Staufacker said the first few years ...

Marshall’s Nate Noble wins first in creative writing competition

MARSHALL – Marshall High School’s Nate Noble had a strong performance in this year’s Southwest West Central Service Cooperative (SWWC’s) creative writing contest, placing in the top 3 in all three categories. Noble took first place in both the poetry and non-fiction categories, along ...

The road to the Revolution

MARSHALL — In 1763, Great Britain had a strong relationship with its colonies in what is now the United States, Dr. Anita Gaul said. But in the space of 13 years, that partnership had deteriorated to the point where American colonists declared their independence, and the Revolutionary War ...

Klawitter seeks District 15B seat

MORGAN — Retired Cedar Mountain High School English teacher and coach Keith Klawitter recently announced he is running for the District 15B Minnesota House of Representatives seat. A 50-year Morgan resident, Klawitter will seek the Democratic Farmer Labor endorsement at the Senate District ...

Hospice benefit to honor legacy of care

MARSHALL — It was a difficult time for the Marshall area community. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, three children were diagnosed with cancer. Two died, said Dr. Vince LaPorte. Local families experienced firsthand the gaps in end-of-life care available in Minnesota at the time. “When you look back, Marshall was so much more rural,” said Lynn Cormier, CEO of Prairie Home Hospice and Community Care. Finding hospice care for a loved one often meant driving as far away as the Twin Cities. At the same time, community members were determined to help, and planted the seeds for ...

A celebration of growth

MARSHALL — The members of Living Word Church were excited to be starting a building expansion project in Marshall. But growth was about much more than just a building, said Living Word associate pastor Greg Pavek. “The church isn’t the building. The church is the people,” Pavek said, ...