2024

LOOKING BACK

125 YEARS AGO: 1899 With the Fourth now over, prepare for the big McLeod County Fair. The biggest, finest strawberries we have seen this year were left at the Leader office by Mr.

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55–PLUS SENIOR ACTIVITES

Hutchinson Senior Center is owned and operated by Hutchinson through its Parks, Recreation and Community Education Department. Activities for people age 55 or older are available 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at Hutchinson Event Center, 1005 State Highway 15 S. For more information, call 320-234-5656. The following schedule is for July 5-11: Friday, July 5: Senior Programming is closed in observance of the Fourth of July Monday, July 8: 9:15 a.m. SAIL, 10 a.m. tour registration, KJK Workshop, Coloring & Crafts, 10:30 a.m. bean bags, 1 p.m. Pinochle.

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Know the strength of thy enemy

On a hillside about a half-mile northeast of the Little Bighorn River in Montana is a cluster of stone markers.The markers are strewn in no order other than to mark the spot where men from the 7th Cavalry fell at the Battle of Little Bighorn June 28, 1876. One marker, roughly situated at the center of the cluster, has a black inscription on it — the marker of George Armstrong Custer.

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POLICE BEAT

Hutchinson Police Services responded to the following incidents: June 12: Hutchinson Police responded to a two-vehicle accident. A 16-year-old Hutchinson male was driving a 2005 Chevrolet Silverado west, exiting the McDonald’s parking lot toward the Hutchinson Mall parking lot. Joshua Lawrence Fiecke, 18, of Silver Lake, driving a 2016 Nissan Altima, was northbound in the Hutchinson Mall parking lot on the thoroughfare. The juvenile struck the passenger side of Fiecke’s vehicle. Minor injury reported. No transports. No tows. No citation issued.

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