Let’s Talk! The public is invited to attend a community-wide Question, Persuade and Refer (QRP) Suicide Prevention Training on Thursday, Jan. 12, at 6 p.m. at the Minnewaska House Brewing Co. and Grill. We hope you’re able to join us!  QPR is a 1.5-hour training for any community member to learn basic skills to assist someone… Read More

Children’s Dental Services (CDS) Outreach Clinic will return to the Starbuck Community Center to provide dental care for birth – 100+ years.  CDS is a non-profit dental clinic that accepts all forms of insurance. CDS offers free and reduced cost care based on income. CDS is happy to work with families to help them apply for… Read More

    At one second past midnight on January 1, the day will change from Saturday to Sunday, normally insignificant. But somehow, we’ve decided that this change is different. This unique tick of the clock has always prompted us to celebrate and to step outside the day-to-day activity we’re always busy with to reflect on… Read More

State Auditor Julie Blaha last week released the 2021 Analysis of Municipal  Liquor Store Operations report The report provides comparative data on liquor operations owned and operated by Minnesota cities.   “The most striking data point is the historic increase of on-sale operations profit and sales. After struggling during the closures of 2020, Minnesota’s on-sale liquor operations… Read More

Forada, Sedan departments receive $1,000 grants. West Central Initiative awarded grants totaling more than $20,000 from The Funders Network’s Community Foundation Disaster Response Fund to 20 fire departments in west central Minnesota.   “We received a grant from The Funders Network for emergency preparedness activities,” said West Central Initiative’s Director of Development, Rebecca Lynn Petersen. “We’re choosing to… Read More

New child support guidelines, effective Jan. 1, 2023, will improve parity between parents and make it easier for them to support their families. While the updated guidelines will affect everyone who gets or modifies a court order for child support, the changes will likely have the most impact on families with lower incomes and families that… Read More

110 YEARS AGO From January 10, 1913 The editor of the Glenwood Herald, a certain Mr. G.C. Wollan of the City of Glenwood, having been provoked by too much wrath and disturbance of the peace through an editorial in the Times of January 3, 1913 caused the arrest of “yours truly” I.M. Kalnes, on a charge of… Read More

Hundreds of Glenwood area farmers without power following ice storm Jan. 3, 1963 – The top 10 stories in 1962 included: the beginning of construction on Glenwood Retirement Home and Lakeview Nursing Home, elections featuring recounts, the industrial expansion of the area, Life magazine’s feature of Lake Minnewaska, no highway fatalities in the county, the seventh… Read More

Nursing work established again in Pope County From the Pope County Tribune, Thursday, Jan. 4, 1923. The nursing work has again been established in Pope County by the Pope County chapter of the Red Cross, and a nurse has been in the field since the first of December. The following is a report of her first… Read More

The University of Minnesota Extension is presenting four webinars on introductory farm transition and estate planning. Webinars will be held on Wednesdays in January from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. starting Jan. 4, 2023.  There is no cost to attendees. Attend one or attend all four! Topics for each session are as follows: • Jan. 4: Developing… Read More