Senior News By Diane Kittelson, Pope County Senior Services Consultant/Coordinator  Hello, seniors! With 2025 well under way, we reflect on all the wonderful opportunities we had to connect in 2024. The Pope County Council on Aging led those efforts, hosting their annual parties: the 4th of July celebration and the Halloween party. In addition to organizing… Read More

View From a Prairie Home by Hege Hernfindahl, Columnist One of the miracles I have discovered in my retirement is that I now have time to make friends. One of my fairly newly found friends I met through my now departed, but never forgotten, best friend Marianne. She (my new friend) is everything I like in a… Read More

From Where I Sit By Pat Spilseth, Columnist Winter has damped my enthusiasm for most everything. For the past few weeks when I go outside for the morning paper, there are no stars above to brighten the gray skies and I feel the freezing temperatures of another winter day. However, currently, Mother Nature has changed her mind… Read More

Publisher’s Perspective By Tim Douglass, Publisher Glenwood’s own Clay Nestor, an accomplished hockey player now and in his youth, was once again on the ice for the annual Guns-N-Hoses Hockey game between Police (Guns) and Minnesota Firefighters (Hoses).  Clay was selected to be the starting goalie again this year for the “Hoses.” The hockey game was… Read More

Thankful Donald Trump was elected It is totally beyond my understanding how Americans have been so determined to allow millions of illegal immigrants into our country while at the same time not caring one bit that there were 546,255 immigrant children unaccounted for at the end of FY 2024 in addition to the endless abortions… Read More

Minnewaska Musings By Paul Gremmels The other day, with great sadness, I thought I might have to put “Old Blue” down. A fresh snow had just blanketed the region and Old Blue was having trouble working his way down the walkway. I knew the day would eventually come, he was nearly fifteen years old. But the… Read More

Stoneage Ramblings By John R. Stone In the United States in the 1930s we suffered through an economic depression along with the rest of the world. At the same time in Germany, a young former army corporal named Adolph Hitler rose to power blaming the nation’s woes on the Jewish population and promised to make Germany… Read More

Growing Green By Robin Trott, Extension Educator Believe it or not, it’s already time to plant vegetables like onions, leeks, and celery, as well as a variety of flowers. Serious gardeners who want to start large quantities of seeds will benefit from certain investments like artificial lights and heating pads. But for gardeners who are growing… Read More

The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist This is one of those times of the year when a dog guy gets kind of bored.  The ice conditions have been so sketchy that I don’t really feel all that great driving on the ice of the area lakes. So, with no seasons open, I took to observing one… Read More

View From the Cab By David Tollefson, Columnist On Feb. 2, I began a trip to Hawaii by riding Amtrak, boarding at St. Cloud at 1:00 a.m., riding the Empire Builder. I had ridden Amtrak a number of years ago, but that was a relatively short trip from St. Paul to Chicago. Being I now have a… Read More