Leader-News - News
Course upgrades in full swing
While the rest of the community was snuggled inside this winter, three welders volunteered to battle the cold to bring Painted Wood Golf Course up to, what some say will be championship standards.
Dollars For Scholars host annual banquet bash
Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn and Dean Martin graced the Memorial Hall March 15, during the annual Washburn Dollars For Scholars banquet.
Board dissolves football co-op
Southern McLean football co-op of Washburn, Wilton and Wing may have its last season this fall.
Budding Entrepreneurs
Four Washburn high school students might be the leaders of tomorrow, with businesses in our region.
Assessment hearing set
The bad news is city property taxes are set to go up.
Auctioneer honored
It might have been a love of auctions his dad nurtured when Lyle Lauf was young.
After the Great East Japan earthquake
March 11, 2011 I turned on the TV at a condo in Honolulu, Hawaii and was horrified to see live pictures of a tsunami plowing through Sendai Airport, my airport.
County breathes sigh of relief
With a gathering of concern, panic, and faith, members of the communities of Washburn, Turtle Lake, Mercer and surrounding towns, stepped back from their daily routines to listen and look for information on missing men from their home communities or where relatives of the men lived.
