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Opinion

Fish like you’re 12

Local Columns

The great thing about the outdoors is we have nearly unlimited choices of what to do and how to do it, especially as summer gets underway. On our way up the angling learning curve, and through a world of changing technology, the options have become expansive. If you want to bonk a muskie on the ...

Attending a 50-year reunion

Community Voices

I walked into the room and was struck by the preponderance of graying hair and balding heads. Who were these old people? And what were they doing at my high school class reunion? It was difficult to comprehend that it’s been half a century since my classmates and I walked across ...

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Editorials

THUMBS UP Kraft loses promised federal funding Last year, New Ulm’s Kraft plant was earmarked to receive $3 million in federal funds to improve energy efficiency upgrades. This was part of a larger $170 million grant to help the Kraft Heinz company decarbonize. It is not happening ...

On the Porch

Local Columns

Flooding has been a common occurrence in Marshall because of where the town is situated. On Father’s Day, June 16, 1957, five to eight inches, and in some places 10 inches, of rain fell in Marshall. The sudden heavy rains created a flash flood that inundated 88 percent of Marshall. This flood ...

Eagle Cafe fire kindles memories of local eating places

Community Voices

A symbol of my family’s history was severely damaged by a fire this spring. The building that housed Ivanhoe’s former Eagle Cafe caught fire in April in a midnight blaze. Fire departments from as far away as Marshall and Canby responded to the Ivanhoe Fire Department’s call for ...