ST. PAUL – State Rep. Paul Anderson, R-Starbuck, has been named to a conference committee that will prepare a package of drought relief for farmers for final passage in the Legislature. The House and Senate both recently approved legislation to help farmers affected by last year’s dry conditions. The House’s $10.1 million package (H.F. 3420) provides… Read More

The Chippewa River Watershed partners have worked together for many years, going as far back as 1998. A group called the Chippewa River Watershed Project (CRWP) has worked since that time to improve water quality in the watershed. This group completed watershed monitoring and worked to secure funding to do Best Management Practices (BMPs) and… Read More

Earth Day is celebrated on April 22 each year as a nod to the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement. The recognition began in 1970 to raise awareness and demonstrate support for environmental protection. The Glenwood GFWC Potpourri will host an Earth Day event on April 22 at 1 p.m. in the… Read More

The 2022 Firearms Safety classes will again be offered for youth and adults who have not taken a firearms safety class. Students  must be at least 11-years-old to take the classes. Those 14 years old and above may take the online class and do the virtual field day, which doesn’t require attending this class. Receiving… Read More

Contributed by Leslie Randall, Glenwood Public Library I have a correction from last week’s library article which I realized was wrong after the paper came out.  David LaRochelle, the author who is visiting our schools Thursday and Friday, has had so many book awards it is hard to keep track. Although “How To Apologize” is… Read More

Happenings at Central Square On Saturday, May 14, at 7 p.m., experience multi-talented singer and performer Maud Hixson perform songs from the Doris Day songbook. Jazz Lives says of Hixson, “What Maud does is a special art, rooted in the deep desire to make singer and song interwoven and inseparable. She IS the song, and… Read More

Are you tired of getting phone calls from “unknown numbers” or towns you may not have heard of?  You’re invited to attend a public meeting on April 21 at 7 p.m. at the Starbuck Community Center on how to prevent scams and frauds.   In today’s world, technology plays a big part in everything we… Read More

Pope County Museum Notes From the Pope County Tribune, Thursday, April 20, 1922. There are still a few cases of the scarlet fever, but we hope the warm spring weather will drive it away. Information to boys killing gophers and crows and County Bounty being paid: Bounty on striped and gray gophers 2 cents each;… Read More

MAS and teachers reach a new agreement From Pope County Tribune archives April 19, 1962 – A Glenwood faculty member who admitted that he “loved teaching” was set to retire at the end of the year. Freeman Ramberg, Latin and German instructor since 1944, said that he hated to quit just as foreign languages were becoming important… Read More

110 YEARS AGO From April 26, 1912 Approximately 1,700 lives were snuffed out when the luxury liner Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean April 15. Casper Mickelson, Oscar Lund and Albert Brenden autoed to Glenwood in the former’s Brush auto. 100 YEARS AGO From April 21, 1922  Albert Raaum started… Read More