We have been learning about Bruce Pochardt’s Vietnam service. After graduating from Lynd in 1966, he farmed until the military draft took him in 1968. He completed Army training with his friend and classmate, Francis Maeyaert. The two deployed to Vietnam in August 1968. About midway ...

The Lyon County Museum is opening a new exhibit, “The Vietnam War and Lyon County” by this summer. The exhibit’s purpose is to help explain and further our understanding of how the war in Vietnam affected our Lyon County communities and to share stories from Lyon County Vietnam veterans. ...

There is a movement in the Catholic Church to return to historic forms of worship. The revival of the Latin Mass has been at the center of that. Along with that has come criticism of practices that are lumped under “modernism.” A group of conservative Catholics has become known as the Rad ...

The Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Justice Programs (OJP) distributes approximately $54 million annually in state and federal funds to programs across Minnesota providing services to crime victims. The Minnesota OJP has informed all current grantees, including WRAP (Women’s ...

Every once in a while the Lyon County Regional Landfill makes headlines as a vital service to southwestern Minnesota. I was a full-time reporter at the Independent in 1993, when the landfill first went regional. The early 1990s were a time of big changes with regional solid waste. Most ...

Every week – it seems like every Thursday – we find ourselves grappling with the aftereffects of yet another snowstorm. It’s like the movie “Groundhog Day,” except without any of Bill Murray’s wit and whimsy. It’s not uncommon in this neck of the woods to receive substantial ...