The Irish girls’ 4x400 team of Rachel Latour, Jessie Wohlrabe, Megan Webb, and Jordan Sifferle were all smiles after they provided the points the Irish needed to edge Mayer-Lutheran for the Section 4 True Team championship and a trip to state.
The Maple Lake High School track team performed a rare feat last week by sending both the boys’ and girls’ track teams to the True Team State Meet. On Tuesday, May 8, the tracksters got to sleep in because of late start at MLHS, and left school quite early to head to Sibley East for the highly-anticipated True Team meet. It was a great meet as the 2012 team made history by sending both the girls’ and boys’ teams to the True Team State Meet as the Class 1A, Section 4 champions. The meet will be held at Stillwater on Saturday, May 19, starting at 10 a.m.
Maple Lake’s Volunteer Fire Department responded with 11 firefighters for a tractor/power line incident on Friday, May 11, at the intersection of County Road 8 and County Road 37 near Kramer Sales & Service at the north end of Maple Lake.
Don Paumen, a Maple Lake man who helped guide the Wright-Hennepin Electric Association for more than two decades, died on Friday, May 11, at the age of 88.