Stoneage Ramblings By John R. Stone Stephen E. Ambrose is a historian with a half dozen books about WWII to his credit including “D-Day,” “Citizen Soldiers,” “The Victors,” “Eisenhower” and “Band of Brothers” which was made into a video series. In preparing his books about WWII Ambrose interviewed hundreds of soldiers from folks on the top… Read More

Minnewaska Musings By Paul Gremmels If you fly into Washington D.C., you will make your final decent from the west, along the Potomac River, on what pilots call “The River Approach.” Off to the port (left) side will be the iconic monuments of our Nation’s Capitol. The captain will usually alert you to this. On the… Read More

Senior News By Diane Kittelson, Pope County Senior Services Consultant/Coordinator  The Annual Senior Citizens Summer Party will be held at the Minnewaska House on Thursday, June 29, 2023, at 11:30 a.m. The menu is sloppy joes, beans, salad, brownies, coffee and lemonade. Door prizes will be given away, and grab bags for sale. The cost this… Read More

Growing Green By Robin Trott, Extension Educator Most insects are important to a healthy environment, including controlling pests, pollinating flowering plants, and providing food for other wildlife. Only a few are pests. Yet, the pesticides we use to control unwanted plants and animals rarely distinguish between beneficial insects and those which cause harm. Pesticides used to… Read More

View From a Prairie Home by Hege Hernfindahl, Columnist Many people grow up and move away. When we are young, we have more courage for the new and unexplored. We settle in our new place, some of us get married and some of us have children. Then the children grow up and move away. And the circle… Read More

From Where I Sit By Pat Spilseth, Columnist For many of us, it’s a yearly tradition to honor veterans on Memorial Day. Veterans from several wars find their  uniforms they’ve stored in the back of their closets and wear them, once more, as their white gloved hands carry flags and rifles in an annual parade. Aged soldiers… Read More

Publisher’s Perspective By Tim Douglass, Publisher of the Pope County Tribune As debt ceiling negotiations–something of an oxymoron–continue to edge closer to the June 1 deadline, we hear a lot about government budgets being compared to the “family budget.” I their debt ceiling negotiations with President Joe Biden, Republican leaders have called for budget cuts and… Read More

Stoneage Ramblings By John R. Stone You’ve probably read some things about artificial intelligence over the past few years. It’s here and it is getting better, and more dangerous all the time. Actually it has been with us for some time. Machines that automatically reorder supplies for a store might be one example. You probably get… Read More

The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist So, the prescribed fire season is coming to an end for this year. The weather has been un-cooperative to say the least. Burning prescribed fire needs at least some measure of help from mother nature, winds from one direction and at a mph that would make a wind surfer… Read More

View From The Cab By David Tollefson, Columnist A couple mornings ago I was getting ready to have some breakfast. There was a red glow on the floor in my kitchen, which faces the rising sun. The red glow turned out to be the red sunlight, peeking over the woods to the east of my farm. As… Read More