View From a Prairie Home by Hege Hernfindahl, Columnist It might sound strange, but losing a child uproots you. It is like your foundation for your everyday, normal life is gone. Something essential is missing. It is always there, a hole. And then, there are the secondary losses; the problems that arise because of the huge tragedy… Read More

From Where I Sit By Pat Spilseth, Columnist Floats, bonfires, football games, dances and crisp weather…it’s Homecoming time at schools and colleges around the country. It’s a special tradition to gather friends from school to enjoy a rival football game and sing the school song. The week long celebration of Homecoming was a big deal tradition at… Read More

Publisher’s Perspective By Tim Douglass, Publisher of the Pope County Tribune The following essay was written by my brother, James Douglass, who is the executive director of communications, media relations and marketing at Riverland Community College. He wrote this for another publication in Southeastern Minnesota, but I thought it was appropriate to reprint here.  A bit… Read More

Donations sought for December Radiothon to ‘End Child Abuse’ From Denise Dougherty, Chair of the Pope County HELP Council Radiothon to End Child Abuse Dear Residents ot Pope County: The Members of the Pope County HELP council would like to cordially invite you to participate in the 3″ Annual Pope County HELP Council Radiothon to… Read More

Notes from the Capitol By Paul Anderson, State House Representative District 12 B  Much has been written of late regarding the use of School Resource Officers in our public school systems. An Aug. 1 revision of state statute added SROs to the list of school “agents” who are restricted in the use of force when handling student… Read More

Stoneage Ramblings By John R. Stone Glenwood lost a really nice person with the passing of Cliff Ogdahl recently. I got to know Cliff prior to 2000, he was retired and his daughter-in-law, Judy Ogdahl was a partner in Furniture Square, a furniture business in the former Larson Furniture building at the corner of Franklin Street… Read More

Growing Green By Robin Trott, Extension Educator Have you heard that you should wait until after a frost to harvest your apples? I am here to bust that myth. If we followed that rule, many of our apples would be rotten or on the ground by the time we picked them. This is because each apple… Read More

The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist Last week I start a multi-part column on what it takes to create a new public land. A quick review of last week.  We start only with a willing seller that has reached out to a resource agency or a non-profit like Pheasants Forever that will make an indication… Read More

View From The Cab By David Tollefson, Columnist From the Bureau of Labor Statistics comes some history of gas prices for each year, along with a few comments relevant to the year: 1937: Absolute Gas Price (AGP) $.19. Americans were beginning to emerge from the financial wreckage of the Great Depression. 1938: AGP $.18.      1939:… Read More

From Where I Sit By Pat Spilseth, Columnist Outside my bedroom windows, the sky is flooded with moonlight. At 5 a.m. I’m awake, reaching for another blanket. I shiver, feel the chill of approaching fall with its accompanying body aches. The change of weather invades my aging joints. Strange, but why is it that as each season… Read More