Your opener is coming up soon. I don’t care if you’re a waterfowler, a pheasant hunter or have that coveted firearms deer tag for this autumn, opening day is approaching faster than a set of mallards with cupped wings descending on your decoy setup. Which is why now is the time to prepare ...
I enjoy a baseball game. So... ... Take me out to the ballgame...take me out with the crowd... We recently had the opportunity to attend a St. Paul Saints baseball game with two of our sons. It was my first time at the Saints’ ballfield, and it was fantastic. ...buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks, I don't care if I never get back... But I would like to go back to before the game. We wanted to have something to eat before the game, and we ended up at the Lost Fox Restaurant. We ordered our food items. Ours was a shared plate of hummus and crackers which was very tasty. Of ...
For 90 years, summers in Sleepy Eye followed the rhythms of the Del Monte factory on the west end of town. Sights, sounds, and smells that everyone knew ebbed and flowed through the pea and sweet corn canning seasons. Now the lot that saw trucks and employees busily crisscrossing sits empty. Weeds grow from the cracks. The conveyors that carried ears of corn into the plant sit quiet, rusting. It’s still weird to drive by, even though it’s been six years since there were piles of sweet corn. Depending which way you go through town, Del Monte is the first or last of three prominent ...
Last week I proved to myself that there can truly be a first time for anything. I decided on the spur of the moment to enter two of my raised bed garden items in the Lyon County Fair. I participated in the salad tomatoes category and in large marigolds. While I was at it I thought I’d enter a cross stitch project, one that features seven small projects arranged in a photo frame with seven compartments. The raised bed and the stitching both required effort. I wanted people who attend the fair to see my results, to know what I accomplished. It was a bonus when I found out last ...
As summer begins to wind down and excitement for a new school year starts to build, I want to take a few minutes to welcome everyone back and share some of the great things happening across Marshall Public Schools. First, I want to extend a tremendous thank you to our buildings and grounds, custodial, maintenance, and technology teams. While many of us were enjoying summer activities, these dedicated staff were hard at work preparing our buildings, grounds, technology systems, and learning spaces for the return of students and staff. Their efforts often happen behind the scenes, but ...
We have been learning about Larry Van Moer, who was the second of five children born to Marie (Marcotte) and Herbert Van Moer. Larry and his siblings grew up on their family farm north of Amiret. Larry explained how his parents’ managed family discipline. “I think it was mainly my dad, ...
