To the Editor,  • “How do I know my ballot will be counted?” • “Is my polling place safe and secure? • “How does absentee or mail-in voting work anyway?” • “How do we prevent voter fraud?” • “Who actually keeps our votes secure?” On Friday, Oct 2, at 3 p.m. at VFW Post 3289… Read More

Graduation for high school and college students has once again happened, and as this current group of students gets closer to that time when they enter the job market, there is a lot of effort on their part to find jobs. Jobs are harder to come by. This waning job market has some difficulties to… Read More

To the Editor, Every thriving small town has one thing in common: people who are willing to step up, invest their time, and work alongside others to make their community better. Strong leaders don’t just keep good work moving forward. They inspire others, build momentum, and help shape a brighter future for everyone. However, communities… Read More

5 years ago Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021 Al Berube has spent the better part of a decade being an advocate for community banks across the state of Minnesota. That advocacy culminated in August when Berube wrapped up a one year term as chairman of the Independent Community Bankers of Minnesota Chairman. As the chairman, Berube… Read More

Although we all hope for the “good old days,”  meaning, those days when people could be people and behave accordingly, perhaps those days weren’t all that good. Here are some of the medications we used to take a hundred or so years ago. They’re not listed in any order, because all of them are about… Read More

5 years ago Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021 Bonnie Dykhoff thought God put Cris Gaspar Garcia in her path to help him find a better life. When he fell ill with congestive heart failure and died, it all became clear­­—God put her in his path to help his parents. But it wasn’t just Dykhoff that provided… Read More

Now that summer has given way to the start of school and fall is in the air, we can no longer ignore the fact that election season is heating up in a big way. Perhaps, one of the best parts of the fact it is already the second week of September is that we are… Read More

To write about this is probably a combination of old-age retrospection with an added dash of conceit that anyone is interested in the things I did as a young boy on a farm so long ago, but then, maybe some of you haven’t participated in a real cattle drive. Each spring, we would have to… Read More

by bob garver The dialogue-free Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote cartoons are my favorite of the Looney Tunes. No jokes centered around annoying accents or speech impediments, just pure physical comedy about a hapless carnivore and his Ahab-like obsession with catching and eating a skinny flightless bird. Although the cartoons are ridiculous, they follow strict rules,… Read More

New York Mills School Superintendent Adam Johnson is planned to meet and hold a listening session with the following townships, community events, community meeting spaces and city councils concerning the upcoming school building project referendum.  September 14: Bluffton at 1 p.m., Newton at 6:30 p.m., Otto at 7 p.m., Leaf Lake at 7 p.m. (near… Read More