OCJ Rss Feed http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com Featuring locally grown food has been something that Söntés restaurant takes pride in. The downtown Rochester establishment is preparing to take local to a whole new level by creating Rochester’s first commercial rooftop garden, growing in a hay http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2962 http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2962 A memorial service will be held for Mary Bung on Thursday May 16th at 1:00 PM at Mahn Family Funeral Home, Rochester Chapel. A private burial will be held at the Chatfield Cemetery. Mary Bung, 79, of Rochester, died Sunday May 12, 2013 at the sk http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2998 http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2998 Flannery O'Connor, the 20th century American writer and essayist, once said, "To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures." Possibly best known for her use of the violent and the g http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2997 http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2997 The Law Enforcement Memorial Association (LEMA) announces the annual Standing of the Memorial Guard. It will commence on May 14, 2013 at 1900 hours when officers from all over Minnesota travel to St. Paul to the State Police Memorial where they stand http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2996 http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2996 Vivian Muriel Thompson, 93, of Chatfield, died Saturday, May 11, 2013. Vivian was born May 3, 1920, in Chatfield to Ernest and Nellie (Schroeder) Engle. She graduated from Chatfield High School with the class of 1937. On Sept. 3, 1953 she married http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2995 http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2995 ALICE MEYER, age 94. of Wykoff, Minn., died Saturday morning, May 11, 2013, at the Chosen Valley Care Center in Chatfield. Alice was born May 5, 1919, south of Wykoff the daughter of Gustav and Marie (Miller) Wondrasch. She was baptized May 19 http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2994 http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2994 SIGNE O. HOUSKER, age 85, of Mabel, died Friday, May 10, 2013 at the Green Lea Manor Nursing Home in Mabel. Signe was born May 1, 1928 in Spring Grove, Minnesota to Sverre and Emma (Skorgen) Aasum. Her family moved to a farm near Ric http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2993 http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2993 Alice Marie Loken, 85, of Houston, Minn. died on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at her home in Heritage Court in Houston. Alice was born on May 20, 1927, in Lanesboro, Minn. to John and Mary (Horihan) Scanlan. She was raised near La Crescent, Minn. on her http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2992 http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2992 Twenty-seven colorful banners will grace Main Street in Zumbrota this summer. Each banner sports a photograph of an original work of art which has been donated for the project. The original art will be on view in various locations in town all summe http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2990 http://www.olmstedcountyjournal.com/single.php?article_id=2990