As Minnesota families celebrate the new year, I want to reflect on everything we achieved together in 2023 and look forward to the year ahead. Despite a divided Congress, we worked across the aisle and made progress on a range of issues impacting our state. Through my visits to all of ...
Murder is a major topic of conversation these days in the local area, following two incidents and four deaths in the past month. First we had a domestic stabbing and a shooting by a police officer in Marshall which resulted in two deaths. Then there was a shooting situation in Lake Benton that ...
There are a lot of creative ways to generate extra income on a farm. For instance, when my sister Diann and I were grade schoolers, we decided to open a sweetcorn stand at the end of our dairy farm’s driveway. Our budding enterprise saw little success due to the fact that our prospective ...
It’s a new year and an unblemished calendar stretches out before us, sparkly and clean, like a freshly washed bed sheet that’s hanging on the clothesline moments before your dog snatches it and gallops through a mud puddle. This is the time of year when people often make resolutions. One ...
I have my share of Christmas traditions. They include a tabletop tree, gift buying, and Christmas cookies. Another tradition involves something I read. Each year I read the O’Henry short story The Gift of the Magi. It’s been one of my favorite short stories since childhood. The Gift of ...
Reflecting on this past year, the city has much to be proud of in terms of projects, development, and personnel. In November, the proposed new aquatic center year was presented to the public for their consideration with a referendum vote on Nov. 7. The results of 1,455 voting Yes to 735 ...