Drivers can expect single-lane traffic on Highway 65 between the Iowa border and Interstate 35 beginning Tuesday, May 7, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation.

Crews will be resurfacing the road and doing culvert repairs.Flaggers will control traffic throughout the project, which is scheduled to continue through mid- June, weather permitting.

MnDOT urges motorists to always drive with caution, slow down in work zones and never enter a road blocked with barriers or cones. 

Based on public input, the Broadway Avenue Streetscape design team is advancing the intersection bump-out configurations that were presented at public meetings.

City public works staff  have marked the outline of the bump-outs at the Broadway Avenue/William Street intersection with cones so that business owners, drivers and pedestrians can better visualize the area that they will encompass.

More information can be found on the project's website

If you have any comments on the plan, please contact Director of Public Works, Steven Jahnke, 507-377-4325 or email sjahnke@city.albertlea.org

     An Illinois man spent a few days in Rochester as part of an ambitious goal, volunteering in 48 states in 48 weeks.

      Monday Charlie Sedig was at the United Way of Olmsted county fixing toys and sorting out boxes for the running start for school program.

     He left his college dreams to pursue this journey after a mission trip in Peru.

     He says he'll do a wide variety of volunteer work and hopes to one day run his own non-profit.

     "My plan would be to start a non-profit that engages high school age and colleges age students and traveling around the world and helping others. The results would be creating more volunteers in this world."

     Charlie arrived in Rochester after spending a week in Wisconsin.

     He relies on donations to continue his journey.