Reader adds information on the electric car debate From Ginger Beck, Glenwood Piggybacking off John Stone’s column in the July 10th issue of the Tribune questioning the pros and cons of electric cars, I’d like to add something most people are unaware of. Electric cars run on lithium batteries, with cobalt being used in the… Read More
Opinions
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Letters to the Editor
Published on July 17, 2023 at 12:26pm CDT
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First impression of writer’s future was proved to be wrong
Published on July 17, 2023 at 12:24pm CDT
Stoneage Ramblings By John R. Stone Many of you may have heard of LaVyrle Spencer, a romance novelist who was very popular in the 1980s and 1990s. She’s a Minnesota author and was born in Browerville, lived a couple of years in Alexandria, and started her writing career while living in Stillwater. I met her about… Read More
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1,000 families served by Farm Rescue
Published on July 17, 2023 at 12:23pm CDT
View From The Cab By David Tollefson, Columnist Many of you readers have heard about Farm Rescue, the group founded by Bill Gross of North Dakota. Bill founded the group in the year 2005, to help farm families who have suffered a variety of issues of health, injury or weather-related disasters to prevent these farm families from… Read More
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Making and keeping a promise
Published on July 17, 2023 at 12:22pm CDT
The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist If you are a regular reader of my columns, you will certainly know by now just how much of a public lands advocate I am. When I was 11 and my parents got me a new bike, I was a roving fisherman. I rode that bike all over my… Read More
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Summer in a Jar
Published on July 17, 2023 at 12:21pm CDT
View From a Prairie Home by Hege Hernfindahl, Columnist Most days for me just go. Sometimes I am in a fog and just let things happen, other times I realize that time is passing. Time without Erland. And I am overcome. But chores have to be done. Some are easy. Like laundry. I have my laundry room… Read More
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Keepers
Published on July 17, 2023 at 12:20pm CDT
From Where I Sit By Pat Spilseth, Columnist Remember when people didn’t toss something just because it was old or wasn’t working correctly? We fixed it. We resoled shoes; we saved gift wrappings and ribbons from presents, ironed them so they were no longer creased. Then we wrapped gifts with that recycled wrapping paper. We didn’t throw… Read More
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Letters to the Editor
Published on July 10, 2023 at 2:04pm CDT
MLA DID NOT help fund hand pulling of starry stonewort from Starbuck Marina From Minnewaska Lake Association Michael Stai – President This letter concerns an article published in the Pope County Tribune on July 3, 2023. The Minnewaska Lake Association (MLA) DID NOT help fund the pulling of the Starry Stonewort in the Starbuck Marina. This… Read More
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Correction on MLA and starry stonewort battle
Published on July 10, 2023 at 2:02pm CDT
Publisher’s Perspective By Tim Douglass, Publisher of the Pope County Tribune It is with our apologies that the Pope County Tribune & Starbuck Times is correcting a statement made in last week’s issue. The Tribune-Times stated incorrectly that the Minnewaska Lake Association (MLA) helped fund the hand pulling of starry stonewort from the Starbuck Marina. The hand… Read More
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The pros and cons of electric cars is just the tip of the iceberg
Published on July 10, 2023 at 2:01pm CDT
Stoneage Ramblings By John R. Stone First let me say that I am among those who think climate change is real and that we need to be doing more about it than we are. But the more I read about how much needs to be done I wonder if we as a society have the guts… Read More
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They simply must go
Published on July 10, 2023 at 1:55pm CDT
The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist I planted a tree in my front yard about two years ago. It has received more attention than any other tree I have ever put in the ground. After two years of watering and nurturing, the winter of 2022-2023 finally killed it off. The tree had a tube on… Read More
