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Michael Todd Hess, 61, of St. Cloud, MN, passed away at his residence Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026. A private memorial service will take place at the Johnson Family Funeral Home in Dassel, MN, Friday, Jan.

Pamela Kay Streich, 60, of rural Maple Lake, MN, and formerly of Cokato, MN, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025, at The Glenn Memory Care Cottages in Buffalo, MN. Funeral services for Pamela Kay ...

Hazel Culver O’Connor, 83, of Hutchinson, MN, formerly of Minneapolis, MN, died Friday, Dec. 26, 2025, at Harmony River Living Center in Hutchinson. The Johnson Funeral Home in Dassel, MN, is in ...

Barbara A. Reed, 66, of Dassel, MN, passed away peacefully Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025, after battling pancreatic cancer for 2.5 years. Join us for an open house to celebrate Barb, hosted at her home in ...

Pamela Kay Streich, 60, of rural Maple Lake, MN, and formerly of Cokato, MN, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025, at The Glenn Memory Care Cottages in Buffalo, MN. She was born Nov. 23, 1965, in ...

The Dassel City Council met to cover a wide-ranging agenda that included infrastructure planning, training, city attorney selection, and compensation adjustments for elected officials on Monday.Closed ...

The Nov. 11 killing of 20-year-old Amber Mary Czech at Advanced Process Technologies in Cokato has already drawn widespread attention, both for its brutality and its rarity in the Wright County city ...

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The Dassel-Cokato School Board closed out its June meeting with renewal and reflection, as members introduced new administrators, approved fiscal-year contracts, and reviewed a wide range of district ...

On a quiet stretch of County Road 30 SW in rural Cokato, Greg and Rebecca Howell don’t plow the fields or harvest the crops. But for more than two decades, they’ve cultivated something just as ...

A city-owned mural that once adorned the former Red Rooster Foods building in downtown Dassel has been removed at the request of the property’s new owners, sparking a wave of community reaction and a ...