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NO FOOLING! A different kind of action is coming to the City Arena this summer: Pro wrestling! For more information on the hard-hitting, high-flying, bone-crunching event happening on July 18, follow North Star Pro MN.
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LOCATION CHANGE: 🐰🌷 Easter Egg Hunt – This Saturday! 🌷🐰
Join us for a fun-filled Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 4! Bring your baskets and get ready to hunt for eggs, enjoy the excitement, and celebrate the season with family and friends. 🥚✨
📍 Location: Albert Lea High School
⏰ Time: 9:00 a.m.
Don’t miss out on this egg-citing event—we can’t wait to see you there! 💛
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Join us for the walking moai Kickoff!WHY WALK TOGETHER? It’s simple but effective at connecting socially, improving heart health, reducing stress and feeling better. Sign up for the community walk – a moia kickoff – on Saturday, April 18:
• Call the Recreation Department at 507-377-4370
• Go to www.cityofalbertlea.org/recreation-registration.
10 a.m.: Program at the Marion Ross Performing Arts Center, 147 N. Broadway Ave.
10:30 a.m.: Walk along Fountain Lake
11:15 a.m.: Free lunch at First Lutheran Church
Invite a friend!
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SKATE IN THE SPRING? Yes! The City Arena has ice so take Learn to Skate lessons before summer hits. Then skaters will be ready for public skate sessions this summer and ice activities this fall and winter. Register by: cityofalbertlea.org/recreation-registration, calling 507-377-4370 or by visiting the Recreation Department at the City Arena, 701 Lake Chapeau Drive.
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Grow your own produce this season! Gardening provides fresh air, natural movement, social connections and healthy food to eat. For more information:y
Go to www.cityofalbertlea.org/community-gardens/
Visit the Recreation Department at the City Arena, 701 Lake Chapeau Drive
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⛸️ Public Skate in April!
Warmer days are on the way, but the ice is still ready for you! Come stay cool and keep sharpening your skating skills all month long.
Be sure to check the monthly calendar before heading to the rink, as the schedule may change. See you on the ice!
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Join us this weekend, March 28 and 29, for the Albert Lea Figure Skating Club Show at the City Arena! ⛸️✨
These skaters have worked incredibly hard all season, showing dedication and passion—even while navigating a challenging year with construction at our facility.
Come out, enjoy a great show, and help support these talented skaters and coaches!
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UPDATE ON CITY ARENA PROJECTS: The new refrigeration system is complete for both the Nystrom and Colstrup Rinks and recently passed state inspection. The next steps are to load the refrigerant and start up the system. Meanwhile, boards are going up in the Colstrup Rink and it will soon be ready for ice. The Recreation Department plans to keep ice in the Nystrom Rink until Colstrup is ready. Be sure to attend the Albert Lea Figure Skating Club annual show on March 28-29. The arena has many more events scheduled, including hockey camps and public skate session. Keep following us for updates.
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Mark your calendars!
Spring cleanup: Saturday, April 25, 2026
The City of Albert Lea will hold its annual spring cleanup on Saturday, April 25, from 9 a.m. to noon. Residents with proof of city residency may deposit the following at the Transfer Station:
• No charge: One load of brush, yard waste, household garbage or demolition debris
• $10 each: Appliances, sofas and mattresses
• $5 each: Furniture pieces
• $3 each: Passenger car tires
• Regular rates: Rims and electronics
For more information, visit www.cityofalbertlea.org/departments/waste-disposal-and-recycling or call 507-377-4325.
Waste Disposal and Recycling - City of Albert Lea
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**Update: dog reunited w owner.
There is a shaggy Shih Tzu or similar dog running around near May Clinic Health Systems. If you are missing your pet, this might be a good area to look. It keeps running away if someone gets close. Thank you and please share.
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*Update* Dog has been reunited with owner.
I've moved around quite a bit in my life, this town has the best police department of all. Happy to settle in here
Hope they find him
NEWS RELEASE: ASSAULT ARREST
On March 21, 2026, at approximately 5:08 p.m., Albert Lea Police Department (ALPD) officers were dispatched to a residence on Broadway Avenue South for a reported assault. Initial reports indicated that a 77-year-old resident was bleeding from the head after being attacked. Upon arrival, officers confirmed the victim was suffering from a head wound. Witnesses stated the suspect had fled into a nearby wooded area wearing all black, had bloody hands, and was carrying a metal object.
Officers located a male matching the description near Broadway Avenue South and Railroad Avenue. The subject, who had blood on his hands, was non-compliant and began walking away from officers, discarding items including a large metal object. Officers deployed less-lethal devices and successfully took the subject into custody without further incident.
Both the victim and the suspect were transported to the emergency room at Mayo Clinic Health System-Albert Lea for medical treatment.
The suspect has been identified as 44-year-old Paul Everett David who is in police custody. Preliminary investigation suggests the incident appeared to be a random encounter. The investigation remains ongoing; however, there is currently no threat to public safety.
The Albert Lea Police Department was assisted by Albert Lea Fire Rescue, Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office and Mayo Clinic Ambulance Service.
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The mission of the Albert Lea Police Department is to enhance the quality of life in Albert Lea by providing excellent public safety services through leadership, integrity, and in collaborative partnerships with our community.
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My heart absolutely breaks & goes out to the poor victims family, Paul is my uncle who suffers SEVERELY with mental health issues. Hopefully we can try to get him some help this time..I’m SO SO sorry to everybody for my uncles actions. 😭😭 Please know he’s NOT a level headed person who just randomly decided to snap one day, he lives in the woods by choice to escape the voices in his head and doesn’t believe he needs professional help or has any issues..
I hope the elderly man is recovering okay.
I hope Paul can get the mental health care he needs now. I know he's had a long struggle with drugs homelessness and mental health... Praying for you Paul And for the elderly man I pray as well
Our Police Department is second to none, and we're lucky to have them.
I have to update my post about david. They can send him to St Peter state hospital for the mentally ill who are dangerous to the public. I'm sorry about what happened but there are consequences for his actions. Mentally ill people are court ordered there and have to abide by their rules. The crime involved a weapon as I read and was violent in nature. He will be better off there.
Excellent JOB Officers💯💯💯💯💯💯👍👍🙂🙂🙂🙂
Great job!!!
"Integrity+Respect+Accountability+Service".
Michaela Tews
Praying for him , he is in critical condition in Rochester .
David Christensen
Ted Radke
Prayed..
What bothers me so very much is the closing of Mental Health Hospitals. The 1970' 1980's brought a mentation to take mentally unhealthy individuals out of these hospitals, close the hospitals and utilize Community Integration. This has had a negative effect on many of these people. Very sad
Random encounter??? Seriously??? Just a random encounter?!!! holy crap! Stay safe out there, Everyone!
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'someone caught the whole thing, peep it Police Scene Report
'someone caught the whole thing, peep it Police Scene Report
someone cavght the whole thing', peep it, Breaking NOW
,Someone actually got the whole thing. it's on. Crime Intelligence Unit
someone caught the whole thing, peep it The Uncensored Scanner Feeds
Lock him up...that's elder abuse...and if his victim doesn't make it through, it will be murder.
WHY!!WHY!! That poor man💔. Thank you ALPD for getting that LOSER off the streets
When they let him out in 2 days like always at least make him clean up the horrendous mess of garbage he has filled the woods with on Jefferson
So y'all can taze him and what not but when it came down to my cousin which y'all had no right at all to sit when all he was doing was walking away from y'all y'all open fire 5 rounds at him and kill him, it's a damn shame what this shit hole of a town has come to
SEE AND BE SEEN: Minnesota law mandates headlight use during rain, snow, sleet, or hail, and whenever visibility is reduced by fog or smoke. Don’t trust your "Auto" setting to do the work. By manually clicking your lights to the "On" position, you ensure your taillights activate, making your vehicle visible to those following behind you.
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Automobile headlights should work just like a Motorcycle. If the key is on and the engine running then all the lights are on.
And just because your automatic headlights are on doesn't mean your taillights are. Turn then on in fog and other conditions so people candle see you.
Perhaps the ALPD could do a traffic/driving/ parking tips/ laws once a week. Like make sure your headlights are actually functional or don’t park in the yellowed painted area etc.
Also worth mentioning is it’s illegal to drive around with a foot of snow on top of your car.
By manually clicking on I ensure a dead battery 🤣
What lights that are bad to have but helps you see better
There was one morning when I was driving into work (when it was still dark) and came up on a car that didn’t have their headlights on. My initial thought was to flash my lights at them, but I didn’t. As I approached them- I realized it was a police officer. So, would I have been in the wrong for doing so? I did mention this to an officer that I know. Sadly, I wasn’t able to make out who was driving- so we couldn’t give him/her some grief.
I personally use my full lights when driving in fog, snow. Etc. and really appreciate others do the same thing. Auto lights only turn on your front lights the cars coming up behind you need to see your lights too!
Need to start ticketing people again! Not just posting this! Teach people how to yield too!!!
Hope that people read this. I’m so tired of people with no lights on when they should be. I always turn mine on. My life is worth having headlight & taillights on all the time.
Can you mandate people actually doing the speed limit through residential areas instead of turning them into race tracks. Since the police are apparently too busy to patrol them??
Maybe if you’d start pulling those people over the rest of them would start listening. You know how many people I’ve watched police drive by without lights on in heavy rain and fog?
Can you please remind ALL members of law enforcement of this as well
Can we mandate cleaning all snow off a vehicle
Tell your own officers that. I have driven by so many officers when it is raining out, or sleeting or foggy and they don’t have any lights on. Yall love to enforce the law on civilians but hate doing it to your officers. 🤷♀️
Why not enforce it?
Hell I've seen cops with no headlights on
Thank you, could you post something about using your turn indicators. Putting them on in the turn lane is not helpful. We have already guessed what you are doing. They are indicators not confirmatorys.
It's a law in NY... but there are those that don't adhere to rules of the road.. Almost like daring the law enforcement to ticket them! (Good people always pay the price for the rule breakers!)
Dont talk about it, BE about it. I have YET to see anyone get pulled over for headlights other than 1 being burnt out in hopes to find a dui! Actually protect and pull the dumb people over that drive in snow storms and fog with no headlights!
Always usually a Ford product with no lights on.
Should be a fine when this is not done. Dangerous
🐸👀🧟♂️👀🧟♂️👀🐸...(*The Fog*)
🚨 SCAM ALERT: FAKE "NOTICE OF HEARING" 🚨
Our department has been made aware of a sophisticated scam circulating in the area. Residents are receiving official-looking "Notice of Hearing" documents for traffic or toll violations. These are fraudulent.
The scammers are using high-pressure tactics and realistic legal language to trick you into paying "fines" through a QR code.
🚩 How to Spot the Fake:
• The "Judge" and "Clerk": The document lists "John Smith" as both the Judge and the Clerk of the Court. In a real court system, these roles are held by different individuals.
• Generic Violations: It vaguely lists "Parking Violation / Toll Violation" without a specific location, vehicle plate number, or date of the alleged offense.
• QR Code Payments: Government agencies and courts will not ask you to settle a legal matter or pay a fine exclusively via a QR code or third-party payment link.
• Inconsistent Dates: Note the "Issued" date versus the "Hearing" date—scammers often create a short window to rush you into acting without thinking.
🛡️ Protect Yourself:
1. Do NOT scan the QR code. This can lead to phishing sites designed to steal your credit card or personal information.
2. Verify directly. If you are concerned about an actual citation, contact the Hennepin County District Court directly using a verified phone number from their official website (mncourts.gov).
3. Spread the word. Share this post with friends and family, especially those who may be more vulnerable to official-looking mail.
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City of Owatonna, MN Government, this should be posted by our police department as well. It's happening in Owatonna as well.
I received this text today - the Minnesota seal at the top has the state spelled wrong and the wrong seal logo…scary how official it looks though!!!
Not to mention Minnesota is spelt wrong on the seal as well. Looks like since the Learing Center scam fell through, they're onto this
I received mine
Thanks 🙏 for sharing this information!
Beware! Can happen anywhere.
Im in Austin and got one yesterday
Glad to see this! Our son received this yesterday.
I got one of these also, I ignored it
That isn't Minnesota's state seal - not even close. On top of not being the state seal, Minnesota became a state in 1858 not 1888.
I received this today from Illinois! And I’m from Minnesota! Thank you for sharing it to get people aware!
I got one today for Indiana 🤣
I got this as a text message
Arieona Johnson
Got one today.
Nope
Not like the ALPD would do anything if this were real. They'd just tell you it's a "civil matter and you need your own paid lawyer."
Thank you for sharing!!
Good luck with that one. Most people won't even go to that toilet of a town.
I got one too 😂😂
Don’t travel please. Get what you need from the stores and stay home.
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Will be praying for the protection of your officers, and staff during the duration of this storm. God bless you all🙏
Unfortunately there will probably still be people that will go out when they don’t need to!
UPDATES from the National Weather Service:
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
108 PM CDT Sat Mar 14 2026
Martin-Faribault-Freeborn-
Including the cities of Albert Lea, Fairmont, and Blue Earth
...BLIZZARD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM SUNDAY TO 4 AM CDT
MONDAY...
...WINTER STORM WARNING IS CANCELLED...
* WHAT...Blizzard conditions expected. Total snow accumulations between 4 and 6 inches, sleet accumulations up to one tenth of an inch, and ice accumulations around one tenth of an inch. Winds gusting as high as 55 mph Sunday afternoon and evening.
* WHERE...Faribault, Freeborn, and Martin Counties.
* WHEN...From 4 AM Sunday to 4 AM CDT Monday.
* IMPACTS...Whiteout conditions are expected and will make travel treacherous and potentially life-threatening. Plan on slippery road conditions. Widespread blowing snow could significantly reduce visibility. Strong winds could cause extensive damage to trees and power lines.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Travel should be restricted to emergencies only. If you must travel, have a winter survival kit with you. If you get stranded, stay with
your vehicle. Call 5 1 1 or visit 511mn.org for road conditions.
Prepare now for potential road closures. Delay travel and shelter in place once conditions worsen. Remember, if interstate highways are
closed, state highways and county roads are also impassable.
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Is the Armory going to be open?
Most recent update on the upcoming weather from the National Weather Service:
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
612 AM CDT Sat Mar 14 2026
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 1 PM CDT
SUNDAY...
...BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM SUNDAY TO 4 AM CDT
MONDAY...
* WHAT...For the Winter Storm Warning, heavy mixed precipitation expected. Total snow accumulations up to two inches, sleet accumulations around one quarter of an inch, and ice accumulations up to one tenth of an inch. Winds gusting as high as 45 mph. For the Blizzard Warning, blizzard conditions expected. Additional snow accumulations between 3 and 5 inches. Winds gusting as high as 55 mph.
* WHERE...Faribault, Freeborn, and Martin Counties.
* WHEN...For the Winter Storm Warning, from 4 AM to 1 PM CDT Sunday. For the Blizzard Warning, from 1 PM Sunday to 4 AM CDT Monday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. Widespread blowing snow could significantly reduce visibility. Strong winds could cause extensive damage to trees and power lines. Whiteout conditions are expected and will make travel treacherous and potentially life-threatening.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Travel should be restricted to emergencies only. If you must travel, have a winter survival kit with you. If you get stranded, stay with
your vehicle. Call 5 1 1 or visit 511mn.org for road conditions.
Prepare now for potential road closures. Delay travel and shelter in place once conditions worsen. Remember, if interstate highways are
closed, state highways and county roads are also impassable.
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THE LUCK OF THE IRISH WON'T SAVE YOU IN A CRASH. Whether you are heading to a party or grabbing a pint with friends this St. Patrick’s Day, make sure your "pot of gold" includes a plan for a sober ride home. One bad decision can change your life—or someone else’s—forever. Don't rely on luck; rely on a designated driver or a taxi. Stay safe, Albert Lea! A message from the Albert Lea Police Department and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Good idea!
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Here’s a feel good story for your Saturday enjoyment.
This portrait in this photo is of the Albert Lea Fire Department around 1900. The family of firefighter Joseph Brakken has been passing it on in their family, even emigrating to Canada with it over all these years. Brakken’s family recently reached out to us and asked us if we would like it.
Thanks to firefighter Brakken’s great-great-granddaughter, Darian, and her co-worker, Keith, it is currently making a journey from Moose Jaw, Canada, to Aberdeen, South Dakota. It will be received by the family of current captain, Kurt Wallace, who live in Aberdeen, and then it will make its final leg of the journey back to Albert Lea. 🥳
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That’s awesome 🤩
Wow what a treasure!!!
That’s great!
So cool!
So awesome! Linda Fix thanks for your part in making this happen! Kurt Wallace
So awesome.
This would be a great photo to have scanned at the History Center of Freeborn County. What a fun family heirloom.
That's awesome!!
Wow! What a treasure found!
As the great-granddaughter of Joseph Brakken I want to thank firefighter Brandi who answered my Facebook message and readily accepted the picture and offered it a home!
That's awesome
On Saturday, March 28, Freeborn County will be under an open burn ban. Recreational fires will still allowed but are highly discouraged. Remember to be fire safe.
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Every year, Snowmageddon. We're ALL going to die
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NEWS RELEASE: HOUSE FIRE
Albert Lea Fire Rescue responded to 418 Maurice Ave. at 6:57 a.m. today for the report of a house fire.
Upon arrival, firefighters found fire showing on two sides of the house. Firefighters advanced and extinguished the fire. The residents were located at a neighbor’s house and found to have suffered smoke inhalation from the fire.
Mayo Clinic Ambulance Service treated two children and one adult at the scene, and transported them to Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea.
Damages are estimated at $30,000.
The Minnesota Fire Marshal's Office was contacted and coordinated with the department investigator.
The cause remains under investigation.
The Albert Lea Police Department and Salvation Army also assisted at the scene.
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Local McDonald's Restaurant in Albert lea Minnesota hit by Iranian Missle on Tuesday...🙀🍟🍔🚀🍔🍟🙀
Your clocks probably changed themselves, but your CO alarm and your smoke alarms won't. Be sure to swap out your batteries today for new and check the date of manufacture to make sure the alarms are still valid.
A lot of calls we get are for expired batteries or expired detectors. Check the manufacture's recommendations, but in general, a carbon monoxide detector is good for seven years and a smoke detector is good for 10.
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Done.
Done
Firefighters Roisen and Schiltz completed the American Association Fight for Air stair climb today. Way to go guys!
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Awesome!!
Well done Roisen and Schiltz! 👏
🙏🏻❤️🚒❤️🙏🏻
Well done boys!!
Congratulations
Way to go guys!!!
Great job 👏 👍 💪💪
Congratulations on a job well done! 👏
Congratulations and way to go.
Awesome! Thank you for your service!
Way to excel!!
Congratulations!
Great job Roisen and Nick Wubby Schiltz !
Well done!!
Great job guys!!!
Way to go!! Congratulations!!🎉
Great job, Champs!
Way to go~~
Congratulations!
Congratulations
congratulations!
Awesome work!
Awesome! Congratulations! 
NEWS RELEASE: SHED FIRE
Albert Lea Fire Rescue (ALFR) responded to 17617 760th Ave. on Monday, Feb. 23, at 10:42 p.m. for the report of a shed on fire.
Fire crews arrived on scene and found an equipment and hay shed fully involved in fire. Crews worked to make a fire attack, but were forced out of the building when the roof began to collapse. Heavy equipment was brought in to remove the burning equipment and hay. The items were extinguished when removed from the shed, and crews were able to extinguish the rest of the fire in the building from exterior doorways. Work continued through the early morning hours and the hay was left to burn due to the deep-seated fires within.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, but appears to be accidental in nature.
ALFR was assisted on the scene by the Glenville Fire Department, Hayward Fire Department, Clarks Grove Fire Department and Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office.
Damage estimates are unknown at this time, but the equipment and shed were total losses.
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The mission of Albert Lea Fire Rescue: We are committed to help people and to do what is right, today and in the future.
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So glad there were no injuries to animals or humans. Thank you for your service and stay safe. 
Thank you all for your service to the community.
📢 Major Library Update📢 Our staff has been working hard since we’ve been reorganizing the entire library… by color. 🌈
Starting today, all books will be shelved in rainbow order.
Need the newest thriller? It’s somewhere in the dark blues or purples.
Looking for romance? Try the pinks.
We hope this is more visually appealing to all of our patrons.
Happy April Fool’s Day!
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Love it 😂😂
🤣
Good one!!🤣
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The Albert Lea Public Library will be closed on Sunday in observance of Easter.
We’ll reopen with regular hours on Monday.
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Myth or Fact: Reading reduces stress more than walking or listening to music. 📚
Turns out… it’s fact. Even a few minutes of reading can help your mind relax.
Looking for a new book to relax and unwind with? We know just the place. 😉
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Get creative with us at our adult drop-in craft! 🎨
We’re turning simple bricks into something beautiful! Paint yours as a stack of books 📚, a welcome sign, or a design that’s totally your own.
No registration needed, just stop by and join the fun!
Tuesday, March 31 at 4:30 p.m. in the Fiction Library!
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This week at the Albert Lea Public Library, adults can join us for Drop-in Crafts on Tuesday, March 31 from 4:30 to 8 p.m. and on Thursday, April 2 for Needles, Pins & More from 10 a.m. to noon.
The Albert Lea Public Library will be closed on Sunday, April 5 for Easter.
For full details about these and all our events, head to our online calendar: alplonline.org/events-calendar/
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Congrats to Sam, our Reader of the Month! ✨📖
Want a chance to be next month’s star? Stop by the table at the entrance to the Children’s Library and tell us your favorite book to enter the drawing!
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Congratulations Sam! 📚⭐
A study from the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics found that children who are read five books a day hear about 1.4 million more words by the time they start kindergarten compared to children who are rarely read to.
That’s one of the reasons we love our 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program. Every bedtime story, favorite reread, and library book helps build early literacy skills and those pages add up faster than you think.
This National Reading Month, make storytime part of your daily routine and start counting those books! 📚
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It’s okay to judge a book by its cover… sometimes. 😉
Two very similar looking books, but two totally different stories. Which one would you pick up first?
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Happy people don't live here
How well do you really know your favorite snacks? 🍫🍪
Tweens and Teens are welcome to join us TOMORROW for our Taste Test Challenge!
March 26 at 4 p.m. in the Fiction Library!
Register in the link below!
linkly.link/2eRay
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Ohhhh darn!!! My son would of loved that!
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April Fools!
April fools 😆
That's awesome
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NO FOOLING! A different kind of action is coming to the City Arena this summer: Pro wrestling! For more information on the hard-hitting, high-flying, bone-crunching event happening on July 18, follow North Star Pro MN. ... See MoreSee Less
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That's awesome
GRAB HIS DICK AND TWIST IT!!!!!!!!
Is trump gonna be there? Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha. Time for a body slam.
BEAT THE BIN: Last year, Freeborn County diverted 22,280 tons of waste from landfills, outperforming its garbage output. To keep this momentum going and further reduce the 18,693 tons still being trashed, residents can use these local resources:
Single-stream recycling: Use Waste Management carts for paper, plastic, glass, and metal. Keep items loose—no plastic bags.
Specialty disposal: Drop off electronics and hazardous waste (paint, cleaners) at Freeborn County Environmental Services to protect groundwater.
Spring Cleanup: Visit Albert Lea’s annual event on Saturday, April 25 (9 a.m.–noon) for discounted disposal of furniture, appliances, and tires.
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The sad part is you see plenty of recycling cans with a yellow lids that people have stuffed full of plastic bags which it says do not have plastic bags there’s a house on in the corner of Newton and front Street that has only four recycling cans they threw all their garbage in the recycling cans. They do not pay to have garbage picked up and I think that’s a crying shame.
Would be awesome to open the free/reduced pricing for the county instead of just townsfolk.
That's awesome
How can we really be certain that WM is actually recycling these things and not just sending them to the landfill too? I love recycling but I hear things.
This week at the Albert Lea Public Library, adults can come in for Drop-in Crafts on Tuesday, March 31 from 4:30 to 8 p.m. and on Thursday, April 2 for Needles, Pins & More from 10 a.m. to noon.
The Albert Lea Public Library will be closed on Sunday, April 5 for Easter.
For full details about these and all our events, head to the online calendar: alplonline.org/events-calendar/This week at the Albert Lea Public Library, adults can join us for Drop-in Crafts on Tuesday, March 31 from 4:30 to 8 p.m. and on Thursday, April 2 for Needles, Pins & More from 10 a.m. to noon.
The Albert Lea Public Library will be closed on Sunday, April 5 for Easter.
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WHY WALK TOGETHER? It’s simple but effective at connecting socially, improving heart health, reducing stress and feeling better. Sign up for the community walk – a moia kickoff – on Saturday, April 18:
• Call the Recreation Department at 507-377-4370
• Go to www.cityofalbertlea.org/recreation-registration.
10 a.m.: Program at the Marion Ross Performing Arts Center, 147 N. Broadway Ave.
10:30 a.m.: Walk along Fountain Lake
11:15 a.m.: Free lunch at First Lutheran Church
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Jolene Holty Hemann do you, Kevin, and Vada want to do this walk with me?
Yes!! Let’s talk tonight at Zumba😊
Nobody in Albert Lea is interested in this Blue Zones gaslighting project, so why do you keep it front and center of your efforts in Albert Lea? This is a really a sad statement about the leadership of this town which DOES NOT SUPPORT A BLUE ZONES HOODWINK THAT'S ABOUT FORCING YOU INTO A PLANT BASED DiET. That's the only reason Dan Buttner and the fake "Blue, Zones" exist. Stupid Albert Lea believes Blue Zones is the future when it's nothing more than a social engineering scheme to stop you from eating meat. They claim they reduced smoking by 35% in Albert Lea when those are their statistics and smoking cessated at the same rate all over the state during the same time period. The difference between Albert Lea and the rest of the state is that Albert Lea made laws to enforce the Blue Zones project without input from any constituent That any "Blue Zones" exist in this world where people all live to be a hundred is a flat out lie. Albert Lea is the first Blue Zones because it's made up. It's fake. It's embarrassing to think businesses would be attracted to a place that's interested in socially engineering their population.
On Saturday, March 28, Freeborn County will be under an open burn ban. Recreational fires will still allowed but are highly discouraged. Remember to be fire safe. ... See MoreSee Less
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Stay in the loop with the latest community news! Check out this week’s Albert Week-Lea update right here: mailchi.mp/cb0ae7c7556e/albertweek-lea3-27-26.
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HOW TO GET INVOLVED WITH LOW-TIME COMMITMENT: The Albert Lea Board of Appeals is seeking a volunteer to fill 1 open seat. This 7-member board plays a key role in reviewing requests for zoning variances, which are exceptions to the rules for conditions such as property setbacks and building heights. It meets only when needed, which is usually a few times a year. This a great way to get involved in community decisions without a big time commitment.
- Learn more here: www.cityofalbertlea.org/board-of-appeals-seeks-volunteer/
- Apply here: www.cityofalbertlea.org/board-of-appeals/
Thank you to current members, in the photo above, for their service! From left are Colby Cunningham, Kris Moen, Maria Dietrich and Steven Guenthner. ... See MoreSee Less
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Sign me up.
7 member board, 1 open seat, the picture must be missing people?
Is there a comprehensive list of all the members currently serving on the board?
ANNOUNCED AT MARCH 23 CITY COUNCIL MEETING: Glenville American Legion Post 264 makes history this May as the first Minnesota post to launch the Nation of Patriots motorcycle tour. This 115-day journey carries a single American flag through all 50 states to raise funds for veterans and their families.
Join the festivities!
- Friday, May 15: Welcome party at the Glenville Legion at 5 p.m.
- Saturday, May 16: Kickoff ceremony at Bergdale Harley-Davidson in Albert Lea at 10 a.m.
Hundreds of riders set off at 11 a.m. May 16, traveling down Bridge Avenue and Broadway Avenue toward Mason City. Organizers invite the public to cheer on the procession. Supporters may also follow in vehicles.
For more info:
- Visit www.nationofpatriots.com
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Nice picture of two i will be there may 16 th
Safe travels!
Wonderful! Proud of all involved! Great community function
Dennis Erb
Craig Lestrud will be there with you all in Spirit ❣️ This is all he ever talked about and was truly proud of
So awesome!
Dennis Jerome. Saddle up.
You go Larry,make us proud
Love it..land of the free
The American Democracy and Constitution are being disassembled under the current Administration. Godspeed in alerting the popuation to stand up and act.
Are LEMC's welcome to join the ride? Are cuts allowed?
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