Minnewaska Musings By Paul Gremmels, Columnist “One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I… Read More

Growing Green By Robin Trott, Extension Educator University of Minnesota Extension Educators are excited to bring you the fourth annual Gardening from the Ground Up Zoom webinar series. Free virtual workshops will take place Feb. 20-24, 2023, from 1-2:30 p.m. each afternoon. The series will focus on trees and shrubs in the home landscape. Webinars will… Read More

The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist At this very moment, the town I live in is pretty much shut down. Snow in amounts I don’t like, along with winds I hate even worse, are arriving later today. The pheasants are getting a huge reprieve from hunters that would normally be chasing them until the very… Read More

View From a Prairie Home by Hege Hernfindahl, Columnist I hope you will excuse an old woman. But last week, the week before Christmas when I always write about the various ways one can celebrate and the reason for this, I was confused. You see, because I need time to edit my columns, I always write two… Read More

From Where I Sit By Pat Spilseth, Columnist Each year I look forward to reading Christmas cards that friends from all over the country send telling about their families and activities of the past year. It’s a great catcher-upper with folks I have no regular news from. If I get a card with only a signature, I’m… Read More

Publisher’s Perspective By Tim Douglass, Publisher of the Pope County Tribune At a recent Glenwood City Commission meeting, City Administrator Dave Iverson explained how the city has been hurt financially by stagnant Local Government Aid (LGA) from the State of Minnesota.  Glenwood, like all cities in Greater Minnesota, receives state LGA each year. Lack of LGA increases… Read More

Stoneage Ramblings By John R. Stone Sometimes what you see is not what you think it is. I had a humorous reminder of that this past week. I had spent Saturday morning, Dec. 10, with some buckthorn brigade people cleaning up some buckthorn we had cut earlier. When we were done I went home, took a… Read More

Thank you to Cody Bosek for ‘caring for the youth of this community’ From Barb Kramber, Glenwood Thank you Cody Bosek for the letter-to-the-editor – 12/5/2022 – “Still believes tennis should be available for ‘our children’.” Thank you for the words, the time  and thought you put into the writing of this letter, for informing… Read More

The Salvation Army 2022 Campaign is ‘Love Beyond’ By Donna Ortendahl The Salvation Army Central Minnesota Field Representative With a recent resurgence of the pandemic, The Salvation Army is digging in for another challenging season of need. With many facing hardship, the need to serve those most vulnerable is great. Meeting these needs is made possible… Read More

View From The Cab By David Tollefson, Columnist Laura Cole is a staff writer for The Land Magazine. She writes in the Dec. 9 edition of the magazine, under the above title. It is a rather long column, but I will quote parts of it that I thought relevant to the upcoming holiday that we all love… Read More