The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist As a guy who spends almost all of his free time when not working my day in the propagation of wildlife and habitat improvement for their benefit I ask the question, why are our natural resources valued so low when it comes to punishing violators? I just read an… Read More

Growing Green By Robin Trott, Extension Educator It seems strange to talk about planting this time of year, but now is the time to plant spring bulbs and garlic. When it comes to producing color early in the season, you can’t beat spring-flowering perennial bulbs. If cared for properly, they’ll come back year after year from… Read More

View From The Cab By David Tollefson, Columnist The week of Aug-21-25 I had the rare privilege of hosting my son, wife and two kids at the farm. They presently live in Frankfurt, Germany, and as of last Monday they are back home. At this time of the year, I go into my corn fields and take… Read More

From Where I Sit By Pat Spilseth, Columnist Remember that frightening first day of school? Only five years old, I was the only kid crying to go home on that monumental first day of school, Sept. 5, 1950. Patty’s heart-wrenching cries for Momma must have embarrassed Mom. Relief finally came when Mom spotted my friend Martha, a… Read More

Publisher’s Perspective By Tim Douglass, Publisher of the Pope County Tribune There is an important decision to be made this fall for the Minnewaska Area School District.  District residents will be voting to renew and/or increase the tech levy for the Minnewaska Area Schools. Technology changes faster than most of us want to realize and it’s important… Read More

Al Quie was a Republican from the good ol’ days From  Jim Thoreen,  Glenwood Minnesotans last week lost another politician from a string of marvelously enlightened public servants. Governor Al Quie lived a full 99 years, most of them in dedicated service to citizens of our great state either as a public servant or in… Read More

Minnewaska Musing Paul Gremmels I played the flute in my high school band. To defuse any gender associated bigotry, I will also say that I started at middle-linebacker on the football team. I would go on to play the latter in college, but not the former. I barley had enough skills to make a colligate… Read More

Stoneage Ramblings By John R. Stone Fifty years ago this day I was starting my second week of employment at the Pope County Tribune working for then owner Jim Kinney. I was thinking back about how Glenwood has changed over those years and the changes have been substantial. The population hasn’t changed much moving up to… Read More

The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist Pheasant road side counts are completed and as we ease our way to the end of the month the next outdoor opportunity is the morning dove hunting season opener on Sept. 1. This season always invokes a fair amount of emotion between those who think it is a barbaric… Read More

Growing Green By Robin Trott, Extension Educator The Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) is the most destructive insect pest in the landscape and garden. It was first found in this country in 1916, near Riverton, New Jersey, after arriving in nursery stock from Japan. Japanese beetle infestations slowly expanded southward and westward and are now found from… Read More