With major barge jams farther south along the Mississippi, the nation s premier inland waterway for agriculture exports has proven costlier for grain shippers and farmers farther north.
Photo by Chris Rogers From blackboards to pencil sharpeners, owner Andrew Brenner kept historic details while converting Winona’s former Madison school into the Madison Place apartments. Across town, renovations are also underway on the former Central school. A new life for Madison, Central schools (4/28/2021)
Two redevelopment projects that will turn abandoned 1930s-vintage schools into apartments are finally germinating.
The former Madison Elementary School at 515 West Wabasha Street has already transformed classrooms into 21 residential units which are in the process of being rented out to seniors. Developer and Winona native Andrew Brenner has kept the fixtures of the old historic building, from the drop-down maps to the pencil sharpeners. In fact, a tenant who served as a teacher for 28 years before she retired, Mary Weber, can let her grandchildren do math problems and doodle on the blackboard in her apartment. “It was just