This past April 29th and 30th was the 72nd annual Lincoln Trail Hike sponsored in part by the Boy Scouts of America, but participated in by others, now including Girl Scouts, as well. Patches were given to scouts who completed the 20-mile hike from New Salem, Illinois, to Springfield, ...
Few of us go through life without ever applying for loans or borrowing money. Borrowing and repaying money can help you establish a credit history that will make it easier to get financing when you need it. But it’s important to use credit judiciously, so it can help, rather than hurt, your ...
Today’s column comes from a reader who I meet in the hall from time to time. She often has a comment on a column that I have written and so I had asked her for suggestions for topics for future columns. Today’s topic is per her request. She said that she would like a review on good foods ...
At one point in our nation’s history, to hear someone say: “The Reds are coming!” wouldn’t have been a good thing. The reason for this discomforting thought was because to call someone a “Red” meant that person was a Communist. Even today, communism doesn’t pair well with ...
Motoring around the countryside, it appears to me that oats are making a comeback. I say this despite the fact that I find it difficult to decide if the proper usage is “oats are” or “oats is.” I have a similar problem regarding the word “grits.” For many, “oats” evokes words ...
Speed kills. That has proven to be the case many times in recent history of Lyon County. The Lyon County Sheriff’s Department announced this week that it’s joining forces with other Law enforcement agencies in Southwest Minnesota on Thursday to curb speeding on roadways. The agencies ...
I grabbed the pink-and-purple deep running crankbait off the floor, almost as an afterthought. It had sat, stashed away for years in the miscellanea that most anglers have — lures, baits and other items of tackle that don’t quite make the cut, aren’t of any sort of confidence color, or ...
To the editor: Letter to the editor in response to letter of July 3 from Mr. John Frerich. Mr. Frerich, I have read your letter numerous times and I cannot understand where you are coming from or what exactly your intentions were. Were you angry when you wrote it? Were you just ...
To the editor: Monday’s (July 3) letter writer did not speak for me when he attacked the editor of your paper for merely expressing an opinion on the OPINION page of the paper that he is the editor thereof. His (the letter writer’s) characterization of that opinion as being “a gross ...
Donald Trump’s insistence that nationwide voter fraud denied him a victory in the popular vote last November prompted him to set up a federal voting commission seeking broad personal and political information on enrolled voters. The effort has triggered a broad pushback from 44 state ...
How did we cope with the extreme heat and humidity before we had air conditioning? I have thought of that more than once during this summer’s unrelenting heat. Well, to begin with we opened the windows and doors wide to let in any breeze that might come through — but only if there were ...
District manager Social Security encourages people to rejoin the workforce when they are able. Ticket to Work is our free and voluntary program that helps people get vocational rehabilitation, training, job referrals and other employment support services. This program is for people ages ...
Water-related subjects such as weather, floods, drought or contamination are often featured on the news promoted to the public; the situation in Flint, Michigan is a case in point. These topics can be great concern throughout the United States and the world and significantly affect our daily ...
This Tuesday we’ll have our first full moon of astronomical summer over Marshall but for all practical purposes the moon will be pretty much full all week long. As much as full moons louse up the skies for real stargazing and astrophotography, two things that are near and dear to me, I just ...
It was a case of mistaken identity. Actually it was my ignorance that got the best of me when I walked into the Wabasso Community Center on June 28 for the Lions 46th Annual Pork BBQ. The first thing I noticed when I walked inside was the tantalizing aroma of barbecue. Next I noticed the ...
How pro-life are you? Considering the voting demographics of the rural Midwest in general and southern Minnesota specifically, I’m going to assume most people who read this will be Republican. And one of the Republican tenants is opposing abortion. In fact, I believe it’s the singular ...
I was blessed with a rare three-day weekend this past weekend. And the weather cooperated all three days. Ross and I didn’t travel far as we did that the previous weekend, but we found things to do within a 100-mile radius of Marshall. Ross has been car shopping for the last few months, so ...
Summer in southwest Minnesota has a different meaning for everyone, but most people this summer will consume ice cream, which is especially tasty on hot summer days. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan designated July as National Ice Cream Month and the third Sunday of the month as National Ice ...
Many Indigenous Peoples do not celebrate the white man’s Fourth of July Independence Day. Frederick Douglas, a black slave, put it this way, “What to the American Slave is your Fourth of July?” Many of our Native Peoples share this same sentiment and ask, “What to the Indigenous Peoples ...
There were a lot of girls sticking their necks out at Minnesota Girl’s State. On the first day of the program, unknowingly adorned with a predetermined Federalist name tag and a Bernie Sanders sweatshirt, I had no clue what I had gotten myself into. I walked into my dorm room and was ...