10 Years Ago HASTINGS STAR-GAZETTE September 16, 2010 (photo) Deborah Ann Antko, 57, of Apple Valley died in this crash Friday afternoon at the intersection of County Road 46 and Goodwin Avenue just west of Hastings.

57-year-old Apple Valley woman died in the crash … “I was shocked to learn of this tragic news, as was everybody in our office,” Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom said. “It’s hard to believe. Deb was a wonderful person. She was well-liked by everybody she worked with. She was a great legal secretary when she was in our office.

She will be deeply missed.”

Antko’s death was the second to hit the attorney’s office hard this year. In June, assistant county attorney Sheila Happe died in a crash on Highway 53 in Hastings.

“It hasn’t been a great summer for my office,” Backstrom said. 20 Years Ago HASTINGS STAR-GAZETTE October 5, 2000 Highway 10 reopens Friday By Randy Roberts, Star-Gazette managing editor The wait is almost over. Motorists can take Highway 10 between Hastings and Prescott beginning Friday.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation announced last week that the…3-mile stretch of Highway 10 will open following a dedication ceremony at 12:30 p.m….at Point Douglas Park.

The new road replaces the original highway that was 50 years old and had been closed frequently over the years due to flooding. The roadway was also the site of several vehicle accidents, with safety one of the main issues in the state’s decision to construct a new highway.

According to project manager Jay Hietpas, much of the new stretch is located north of the old roadway, although portions of the new road are situated south of old Highway 10. the new roadway is also 20 to 30 feet higher than the old highway.

“We have 30 feet of fill in some spots,” Hietpas said… 30 Years Ago PRESCOTT JOURNAL September 27, 1990 Bridgefest ’90, the Bridge To the Future Supplement to the Prescott Journal Bridge Builders find homes in area When work wraps up on the new bridge and demolition of the old bridge, Prescott will seem to get smaller, as the many construction workers head back home. But some of them will not have to go far. Two of the project leaders will be staying.

Lunda on-site project engineer Duane Davick has moved to Hastings. Moving is not unusual for Davick. In his 11 years with the firm, he has lived in Iowa and Georgia as well.

Davick also expects to have enough work from Lunda contracts in the area to stay around here. He plans on staying as long as the work holds out.

Davick is already busy on another job. He splits his time between Prescott and Hudson, where he is working on an overpass for the Carmichael Interchange near the dog track. That job won’t be completed until next June, Davick said.

State on-site engineer Don Ingalls and assistant engineer Jim Helstad are also working at the interchange project.

Ingalls is from Pepin, Wis. and Helstad from Eau Claire. 40 Years Ago HASTINGS STAR October 9, 1980 Pick early Farmers urged against waiting too long to pick corn by AL SHAFFER, staff writer The outlook for this year’s harvest covers nearly the whole spectrum. Some farmers will be getting pretty good yields. Others will be getting poor ones. And some will be having a mediocre harvest.

“I guess I can’t miss,” stated Dakota County Extension Agent Warren Sifferath.

His guess is that the peak harvests will range around 150 bushels per acre or more, the worst should be around 5 bushels per acre, and the others will range somewhere in between.

PICK IT EARLY There is one hard fast fact in this situation of undefinables, however.

“The one things I’m telling farmers on the corn is not to wait too long. Get it out of there,” Sifferath advises.

The reason is that the longer the farmer waits, the more stalk breakage, stalk rot, and ear droppage he’ll have. The ear droppage, Sifferath added, is probably the most critical situation.

Star takes three national awards The Hastings Star last Friday was presented three awards at the National Newspaper Association’s annual convention in St. Louis.

Publisher Mike O’Connor, who addressed the national convention on the topic of effective newspaper management, was on hand to accept the awards.

The Hastings Star was one of only four Minnesota newspapers to win first or second place awards in the annual National Newspaper Association contest this year.

The Star was awarded a first place for a special edition published in March of 1979 entitled “Insight.” The special edition featured three sections filled with stories and photographs of people behind the scenes who make Hastings area businesses, schools, government bodies and organizations function smoothly. The focus was not on the presidents, the bosses or the chairmen, but rather on the people working behind them. 56 Years Ago HASTINGS GAZETTE Thursday, October 1, 1964 Weddings!

Edith Specht of Hastings to Kenneth Kaiser of Hastings at the First Presbyterian church of Hastings. The bride is employed at the Hastings State Hospital as a psychiatric aide, and the groom is employed at Freed Chevrolet.

Geraldine Marie Hagslinger of St. Paul Park to Robert Lee Schroeder of Hastings on Saturday forenoon, Sept. 5, in Concordia Lutheran church, South Saint Paul. Both are employed at 3-M’s Chemolite plant near Hastings, the bride on the clerical staff, and the groom in the production department.

Joyce Peterson of St. Paul to Gerald Frain of Minneapolis on Saturday evening, Sept. 5, in the University Lutheran church, Minneapolis. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Peterson of Saint Paul, formerly of Hastings. Parents of the groom are Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Frain of Minneapolis. The couple reside in Minneapolis where both are employed.

Kathleen Peine is Bride (photo) Miss Kathleen Peine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Peine of New Trier, became the bride of Dennis Blesener, son of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Blesener of Northfield on Saturday, Aug. 29, at St. Mary’s Catholic church in New Trier. Rev. Ralph Muehlstein officiated at the double ring ceremony.

Miss Jane Kimmes of Miesville was maid of honor, and Charlene Peine of New Trier was bridesmaid. Best man was George Blesener of Northfield and groomsman Jerome Norbe of Minneapolis. Ushers were Lawrence Blesener of Northfield and Raymond Kimmes of Stanton.

A reception was held at Weiderholt’s Supper Club in Miesville, for 225 guests.

Following a wedding trip to northern Minnesota, the couple is now home at…Farmington.

The bride is a graduate of the Hastings high school and is employed at the First State Bank of Rosemount. The groom is a graduate of the Northfield high school and St. Cloud State College. He is now employed by the Northwest Mutual Life of Northfield.

Seedlings Ordered For 10-acre Rebecca Park …seedlings have been ordered by the Hastings Jaycees for planting in Lake Rebecca Park and other work is progressing at the site… Bishop at Centennial The centennial of St. Mary’s Episcopal church at Basswood Grove, in Denmark township, will be celebrated Sunday, Oct. 4, with Bishop McNary expected to take part in some of the festivities. Bishop Kellogg, unable to be present this coming Sunday, held an early centennial service at the church last Sunday.

A communion service will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday, with Rev. Richard Keene Smith giving the sermon. A dinner will be served to the church-goers and invited guests at noon. In the afternoon, Rev. William Jarvi will extend a welcome, and a short history of the church will be given. Lunch then will be served in the Guild Hall to everyone present.

The church’s centennial was actually last year, but the observance was delayed a year. The church was organized, with Rev. Timothy Wilcoxson as Rector, on April 30, 1863. 114 Years Ago CANNON FALLS BEACON October 5, 1906 NEXT SUNDAY, at 3 p.m. The people of Cannon Falls and vicinity will have an opportunity of listening to an address by W. G. Calderwood, of Minneapolis, the talented Prohibition orator, and popular candidate for the Legislature from the East Side Minneapolis district, who will speak on “Christian Citizenship.” Under this comprehensive caption the lecturer introduces certain fundamental principles underlying our civic and social life, and in his characteristic way approaches some intervening conclusions. Mr. Calderwood is widely known as a fluent and forceful speaker.

To give the fullest opportunity for everybody to hear this address, it will be delivered at the Cannon Falls Opera House.

Remember the date an tell your friends about it.

Sunday, Oct. 7, 3 p.m.

Mr. Calderwood will also occupy the pulpit at the M. E. [Methodist Episcopal] church morning and evening.

157 Years Ago THE HASTINGS CONSERVER September 29, 1863 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Good news to the inhabitants of Dakota and surrounding counties.

New Store in Hastings!

(Opposite the Trenent House.) “This is the store ye long sought, And mourned because ye found it not.” JOHN H. MUES is now opening his large stock of Fall and Winter Goods, consisting in part as follows: Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Crockery, Yankee Notions, Etc., Etc.

All of which will be sold cheap for cash, as all the goods have been bought before the late advance, and I am willing to sell my articles for a very small profit. I would invite all to examine goods and prices. Remember MUES’ Cheap Cash Store.

Hastings, Sept. 29, 1863 25-tf.

Territorial Dispatch 162 Years 11 Months Ago THE EMIGRANT AID AND JOURNAL City of Nininger, Dakota County, Minnesota Territory November 21, 1857 [Correspondence of the Emigrant Aid Journal] Views of an Old Settler.

Being four years in this Territory, I feel competent to speak of its advantages and disadvantages, as one of the old residents. Emigration, it must be understood, never fairly set in her until 1851—just after a season of distress in the East, by which it was impelled in a measure, as also to take possession of the rich lands whose Indian titles were at that time extinguished in this region: With the tide that then flowed in, I thought it best to emigrate and select a choice spot in a land whose fame had then began to spread in New England and in most of the Western States. So early in June, 1853, I pitched my cabin in the Vermillion valley, influenced by the many and rich advantages it possessed… DAKOTA, Nov. 10, 1857.