Tucker Henderson Reporter If there’s one thing that I enjoy on a sunny summer’s day, it is visiting the family cemetery. Now, I know a lot of folks might hear something like that and find it a tad creepy, but if you’ve ever cleaned a family member’s gravestone on a windy day, or visited the… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda I’ve had two encounters with the DNR—Department of Natural Resources. The first happened at small claims court, a place where I took  disagreements with customers regarding minor bill disputes, minor being seven hundred bucks or less. A trip to small claims court, more often than not, produced mostly entertainment. Even though the… Read More

By Bev Johnson Master Gardener If you like ornamental grasses, you will most probably like sedges. Unlike grasses that don’t flower until late in the season, many sedges flower and set seeds in May and June. This gives the gardener some early season interest in the garden. The proper name for sedges is carex.  In order to… Read More

Ask A Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow Question: With spring being here and the melting snow, can you talk about what a person should do when coming across water on roads? Answer: Flooding can occur when streams and rivers flow over their banks, when dams or levees break, when there is run-off from deep snow or any time there… Read More

To the Editor, I am writing to respond to the news coverage of the city council informational meeting with the residents of Newtonville on Tuesday, March 8. It was reported that the City of New York Mills would like to annex 36 parcels of land in the portion of Newton Township known as Newtonville.   As a… Read More

To the Editor,  Congratulations to the Tumbergs on the sale of Mills Lanes. I read with interest their story of 22 years in the bowling business. We were in it for 15 years, the first three in the basement of the city hall. As Dolly mentioned, there were challenges. One for us was recruiting and organizing… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda The list of personalities that come to mind as time goes by is pretty entertaining. Take Jim, back when we were both seniors in high school and he did what none of us had the guts to do: sold his FFA livestock project and bought a new Pontiac, a 1962 Catalina. “What’ll Big… Read More

Ask A Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow Question:  With the warmer weather and snow melting I’m getting spring fever and purchased an old trailer to haul my motorcycle around, are brakes required on it? Answer:   Brakes are required on all trailers with a gross weight of 3,000 pounds or more. Trailers manufactured after June 30, 1988, with a… Read More

The family of Bud Frost would like to thank each of you that honored an extraordinary man, our father with your many expressions of kindness.  The visits, prayers, meals, flowers, and memorials were sincerely appreciated.  Our father would be so amazed and humbled that you took the time to show such love and kindness to… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda The book: “Lies My Teacher Told Me” covers those parts of school-taught history that are not quite the truth. James W. Loewen has taken the, if not untruthful parts of history along with the parts that are out-and-outright missing, task of pointing out what we should know. And were not told…. Read More