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  • Every season is a good one

    Published on January 8, 2024 at 11:46am CST

    The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist By the time you read this, the 22-23 pheasant hunting season will have come to a close. My Dad always used to tell me that if you want to see how fast time flies, take out a 90-day note at the bank. I will add to that with how… Read More

  • December, a record-warm month

    Published on January 8, 2024 at 11:45am CST

    View From The Cab By David Tollefson, Columnist I don’t have to tell any of my Minnesota or upper Midwest readers that we had an extraordinarily warm month in December. I do get the monthly weather reports from the West Central Research and Outreach Center at Morris. Heidi Olson-Manska sends them to me by email very soon… Read More

  • To be Vulnerable

    Published on January 8, 2024 at 11:45am CST

    View From a Prairie Home by Hege Hernfindahl, Columnist I sit here, in my little corner of the world on this day that the Lord has made and stare, as I always do, through my window and across the prairie. It is a strange winter, indeed. Record warmth. Rain for Christmas. Lakes opening up in early January…. Read More

  • New Beginnings

    Published on January 8, 2024 at 11:44am CST

    From Where I Sit By Pat Spilseth, Columnist “And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet, 1875-1926. As I turn the calendar to January 2024, I wonder what the new year will bring. The past year has been unsettling. Not only have politics, the wars… Read More

  • ‘Weather’ dominates conversations these days

    Published on December 29, 2023 at 11:08am CST

    Publisher’s Perspective By Tim Douglass, Publisher of the Pope County Tribune The weather news has been much of the talk around Minnesota in the past few weeks.  First it was the speculation that we were likely to have a “brown” Christmas.  Then, it was the warm weather devoid of any real precipitation. Then the Christmas rains came. … Read More

  • Home for the Holidays

    Published on December 29, 2023 at 11:05am CST

    Minnewaska Musings by Paul Gremmels When I was newly enlisted in the Marine Corps and still stateside, my unit was granted a ten day leave over Christmas and New Year’s.  I excitedly told the Marine that bunked next to me that I would be going home for the holidays. He was a very funny, good natured… Read More

  • A similar ice event on Lake Minnewaska happened in 1982

    Published on December 29, 2023 at 11:05am CST

    Stoneage Ramblings By John R. Stone Last week’s warm weather and rain led to a partial reopening of Lake Minnewaska. Up to the rain, the warm days and cool nights created enough ice for people to get portable ice houses on the lake but I didn’t notice any heavier houses on the lake. We had a… Read More

  • I need to find just the right minute

    Published on December 29, 2023 at 11:04am CST

    The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist So, when does an afternoon pheasant hunt turn into a nature walk? Every hunt is a nature walk but normally at least a few of those nature walks will result in a pheasant or two in the game vest. Late season is far harder than hunting the young and… Read More

  • Winter care tips for healthy yard trees

    Published on December 29, 2023 at 11:04am CST

    Growing Green By Robin Trott, Extension Educator With our mild winter there is still time to protect your landscape trees from winter woes. Acting now can help your young yard trees brave winter conditions and wildlife, says the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Nikki Henger, the DNR’s Forestry Division Outreach Specialist, underscores the benefits of… Read More

  • More comments about Farmalls

    Published on December 29, 2023 at 11:03am CST

    View From The Cab By David Tollefson, Columnist The column I wrote in late November about 100 years of Farmall tractors drew a lot of interesting comments. Dave Sylvester, who grew up in the Immanuel Church area southwest of Starbuck,  sent me an email: “David, you really hit a home run with your Farmall tractor article –… Read More

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