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

Pull up a chair and join in or bring the conversation with you as you go about your day. Whatever works best for you, join us this winter to discuss some of the key issues and questions around commodity crop production facing Minnesota farmers today through the “Strategic Farming: Let’s Talk Crops” webinar series. This… Read More

A new federal grant award will fund collaborative planning by the DNR to further large-scale moose habitat restoration in northeast Minnesota. The award from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, through the new America the Beautiful Challenge, will provide $443,600 to the DNR for the planning effort, with a goal of an implementation plan for moose… Read More

Happy Holidays to everyone . . . Holiday music has filled the Minnewaska Area High School Auditorium the past few weeks with all the grades performing in concert.  Last week, the 7th and 8th grade bands performed in concert Monday night, followed by the 5th and 6th grade band concerts Tuesday night.  In addition, the 2nd… Read More

Music fills the air. . . The Minnewaska Area 5th and 6th grade bands performed their holiday concerts Tuesday, Dec. 20, in the MAHS Auditorium. Check out more photos in our photo gallery!