Question: Are smoked tail lights illegal in Minnesota? Answer: Minnesota law states that “tail lamps shall be plainly visible from a distance of 100 feet to the rear during normal sunlight and at night.” The same goes for turn signals and headlights. Smoking, tinting, covering or placing ...

Life would be so boring without surprises, wouldn’t it? I make that statement because I was recently the recipient of an amazing surprise. More on that later. A few days ago I was walking along a hallway when someone called out my name. The person stopped to tell me she had something for ...

If you’ve ever been on that classic pretend bear hunt with a 3-year-old, you know that in most instances, you can’t go over it, you can’t go under it, and you can’t go around it; you have to go through it. Whether you’re fording the river, or rustling through the grass, or traversing ...

Columnists rummage around in the closets of our lives looking for things we share. Those become leaping off points to write about. I didn’t have to look hard this time: water. If you’re reading this, you’ve had too much rain. For a few weeks, friends from further away asked if we had ...

I wanted to take a moment to share some important information regarding our district’s preliminary budget for the 2024-25 academic year. As many of you are aware, we have been anticipating a tighter budget due to the full expenditure of our COVID funds and the rising cost of education. It ...

It’s been four years since the height of the pandemic, but COVID is a sickness that still affects many lives. My own life has been impacted in the past week. That’s because of the COVID cases at a Marshall assisted living, facility, the home of my 86-year-old mother. I’ve been ...