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By Joshua Dixon Redwood Gazette Posted Dec. 25, 2015 at 12:01 AM The Redwood Falls City Council approved sending out for bids for the new addition for the Redwood Area Community Center expansion.  The plans, approved by the Redwood Falls City Council and the Redwood school district, call for a 1,200 square foot senior center, with an additional 600 square feet available for the seniors if required.   Other items in the approved plans call for a 2,000 square foot fitness, studio, a 1.200 square foot fitness studio, a 270 square foot...

By Troy Krause, Redwood Gazette Posted Sep. 2, 2015 at 1:54 PM The old Redwood Theatre building on Mill Street has been given a new lease on life.  After years of serving as a local fitness venue in downtown Redwood Falls, The Redwood Theatre Group, LLC has just closed on the property with plans to refurbish the historic structure into a modern day movie theater with the original grandeur of the old movie house. Originally built in 1931 by D.W. Buckley, it was the first “talkie” in Redwood Falls and was one of the earliest venues...

By Joshua Dixon Staff Writer Posted Jun. 18, 2015 at 12:01 AM   The city’s plan for the Redwood Falls airport includes enhancements to runway safety, in part to meet Federal Aviation Agency requirements.  As part of that effort, on Tuesday the Redwood Falls City Council approved purchase agreements for approximately eight acres of land near the airport.  When the purchases are complete, long-planned obstruction removal and future maintenance to the runways can begin.  The total cost of the enhancements is planned for $159,309, of which 90 percent ($143,378) would be paid by the federal government.  The remainder...

Joshua Dixon Staff Writer   Posted Jun. 4, 2015 at 12:01 AM   Several years ago, a private company proposed building a 72-unit apartment complex in the wooded lot directly across from Redwood Valley High School.  That plan’s financing fell apart for various reasons, and the original developers abandoned the effort.  However, Redwood Industries has stepped forward with an entirely new plan to develop housing on the lot.   The plan, as presented at the Redwood Falls City Council meeting Tuesday, is for turning the wooded area into a 23-lot planned housing development, consisting of two...

Posted Sep. 11, 2014 @ 12:01 am Redwood Falls Gazette   “Right now it’s pretty spacious and barren, but that’s the idea — we need the space,” said Tom Quackenbush, plant manager at the Daktronics Redwood Falls facility. The facility’s approximately $3 million, 30,000 square foot expansion will be up and running by the end of the month. To celebrate the new space and equipment, Daktronics is hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 2 p.m., Friday, Sept. 12. However, the general public can get a better view of the new facility and equipment the next day, during...

Governor Mark Dayton was on hand to officially proclaim Redwood Falls a Yellow Ribbon City in the city council chambers August 7. Left from front: Pastor Keith Klavetter, Redwood County Attorney Steve Collins. Back: Paul Torkelson, Gary Dahms, Army Jagor General Richard C. Nash, Dayton, Redwood Falls Mayor Corey Theis, local Beyond the Yellow Ribbon organizer Laura Olson, Director of Military Outreach Annette Kuyper, Lt. Col. Steven Schemanauer, Capt. Adam Riedel.   By Joshua Dixon Staff Writer Posted Aug. 11, 2014 @ 12:01 am   When Laura Olson of Redwood Falls was...

Written bySioux Falls Business Journal Brookings-based Daktronics Inc. will manufacture and install the world’s largest HD LED video display for each end zone of the Jacksonville Jaguars stadium. Those displays, orders from two other NFL teams and additional projects are prompting the manufacturer to hire additional staff at its plants in Brookings, Sioux Falls and Redwood Falls, Minn. Daktronics received $153 million in orders in the quarter that ended Jan. 25 and has a $170 million backlog. Full-time workers are needed for all shifts but especially for nights and weekends, according to Aimee Bastian, human resource...

There’s a literary legend in which Ernest Hemingway places a brash wager on the power of brevity.  Insisting that just a few well-chosen words are enough to tell a compelling story, Hemingway bets several other writers $10 each that he can compose a complete story – one with a beginning, middle and end – in just six words. Once his buddies ante up, he pens this on a napkin: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Short. Engaging. Powerful. Whether it's true or not is a matter for literary scholars to debate. But when it comes...