The New Prague Times

1 week ago | newpraguetimes.com | Jarrod Schoenecker

Northern Natural Gas (NNG) is abandoning approximately 1.7 miles of 16 inch steel natural gas pipeline north of Montgomery this summer and putting in a replacement line next to an existing line. The section being abandoned starts at the intersection of 330th Street and 151st Avenue (Le Sueur County Road 144), and runs southwest to 340th Street and County Ditch 22 or east of the Montgomery Wastewater Treatment Plant.

2 weeks ago | newpraguetimes.com | John Mueller

Amanda Will never dreamed of spending the amount of time in a doctor’s office and the hospital as she has the past few years. The journey her son, Colton, and family have been on has already seemed to have taken a lifetime. Colton Will of New Prague was diagnosed with mixed phenotype lineage leukemia when he was 4. He is being treated at Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis. Recently, he entered the maintenance phase of his threeyear treatment journey to becoming cancer free.

2 weeks ago | newpraguetimes.com | Jay Schneider

Five championships and two runner-up finishes were turned in by the WEM girls track and field team Tuesday, April 22 at Blooming Prairie. The Bucs won four individual events and one relay in placing sixth in the eightteam Blossom Invitational. WEM scored 79 points. JWP was the team champion with 149 points. They were followed by St. Clair (110), Mankato Loyola/Cleveland (107). Blooming Prairie (92.5), NRHEG (82.5), WEM, United South Central/ Alden-Conger (46), and Medford (19).

2 weeks ago | newpraguetimes.com | Jay Schneider

Two WEM shot putters competed in the Hamline Elite Track and Field Meet Friday, April 25 with some of the best throwers in the state. Senior Ashlyn Pelant and junior Grady Grohman each had among their best throws of their careers while placing in this meet. Pelant actually did have her best throw of her standout career, tossing the four kilogram ball 38-feet, 11-inches, a new personal best which saw her place third overall.

2 weeks ago | newpraguetimes.com | Jay Schneider

WEM seniors Claire Elness and Maddie Heuss are no strangers to the Class A State Speech Tournament. Both students have advanced three times and they have also returned home with finalist medals. and both have been named All-State twice. This year Elness placed seventh in the Great Speeches competition and Heuss performed well but did not make the finals in the Extemporaneous Speaking competition.