Easter is unique among holidays in that it skips around on the calendar. It depends on the vernal equinox and a full moon. Regardless, it comes in spring. Which is perfect. New life, resurrection, birth, greening of nature: all of a piece. There was one Easter morning in history. But we ...
We continue to implement Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) at Southview, the Middle School, and at the High School. I’m impressed at the simple, but effective, strategies BARR brings to the table to help us look at some new protocols to use data we have. This helps us to have a better ...
Last week I had a volunteer opportunity, one that was well suited to my work with the printed word. I helped to judge the local Rotary International essay contest for sixth graders from Marshall Middle School. I’ve judged it several times in the past five years, and each time I’ve been ...
We have been learning about Mike Lamfers, who grew up on a farm east of Amiret and served with the Marines in Vietnam. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after graduating from Tracy High School in 1965. Mike completed his Marine Corps training and deployed to Vietnam in October 1966 as a ground ...
Florence was founded in 1888 on the northwest quarter of section 20 in Shelburne Township. When the Willmar and Sioux Falls Railroad (branch of the Great Northern) came through the area, it was announced that the station would be named Florence. It was named after the daughter of the founder, ...
As a master gardener, I and the group of master gardeners who are in Lyon County, are here to help the public with questions about your gardens, your trees and shrubs or other questions you may have regarding gardening in a general sense. As we turn the page and move into spring, one of the ...