Publisher’s Perspective By Tim Douglass, Publisher of the Pope County Tribune It was the fall of 2016 when the Glenwood community embarked on the great Complete Streets project that disrupted downtown Glenwood for two years.  It was an extensive project, but one that needed to be done to better position the city for the future. In the… Read More

Title 1 game night at MAES helps students succeed From Jean Barkeim, MAES Teacher What a great way to break up the winter blues! We held a Title 1 Pizza and Game Night at Minnewaska Elementary. After a short presentation by Mrs. Currens about Title 1 services, our students and their guests were invited to… Read More

Stoneage Ramblings By John R. Stone Recently I had my first brush with artificial intelligence (AI) that I knew about. A few years ago when I was working at Quinco Press in Lowry one of the owners of the business suggested I get a LinkedIn account so I did. That is a web portal for people… Read More

The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. This certainly explains the super mild winter we are having. I planned a few days off to go spearfishing for pike early last week and got a call on Saturday from the outfitter we were going to rent a shack from telling… Read More

View From The Cab By David Tollefson, Columnist Many of us have misplaced our cell phones at one time or another – I surely have myself, but always got them back. I ran across this story in the Farm Journal of December, 2023 written by Chris Bennett, with the byline of “Stowaway smartphone finds its way back… Read More

Growing Green By Robin Trott, Extension Educator It’s hard to believe that it’s February already! This warm winter weather has led to much confusion in our yards and gardens, however, it’s still the perfect time to trim your fruit trees. Pruning during dormancy helps prevent fire blight in apples, pears and crabapples, and reduces canker diseases… Read More

View From a Prairie Home by Hege Hernfindahl, Columnist Our grandson, Nils, who lives with us for another internship this semester, was driving on I-94 to visit his mom in Rochester. By Clearwater, a huge semi forced him off the road into the ditch. Luckily the ditch is level there and free of snow, so there was… Read More

From Where I Sit By Pat Spilseth, Columnist A huge full moon was high in the sky this morning when I walked outside in the early morning darkness to get the newspaper. What a treat to see the gold globe after so many days of fog and gray clouds! Surveying my lawn of green-gray and no white… Read More

Minnewaska Musings By Paul Gremmels I heard a play on the old “days of the month rhyme” last week. It went something like this; “Thirty days has September, April, June and November. All the rest have thirty-one . . .  Except January. January has a hundred and five.” Indeed, January is a long month. At least here… Read More

Collaborative Corner on the Move By Jeannie Pederson, Pope County Initiative Coordinator Pope County Family Collaborative Coordinator How many times have you heard a parent share that they don’t live near family or have anyone to support them when it is most needed? When a family is in a crisis, Safe Families for Children (SFFC) makes sure… Read More