View From a Prairie Home by Hege Hernfindahl, Columnist I hope you will excuse an old woman. But last week, the week before Christmas when I always write about the various ways one can celebrate and the reason for this, I was confused. You see, because I need time to edit my columns, I always write two… Read More

From Where I Sit By Pat Spilseth, Columnist Each year I look forward to reading Christmas cards that friends from all over the country send telling about their families and activities of the past year. It’s a great catcher-upper with folks I have no regular news from. If I get a card with only a signature, I’m… Read More

Publisher’s Perspective By Tim Douglass, Publisher of the Pope County Tribune At a recent Glenwood City Commission meeting, City Administrator Dave Iverson explained how the city has been hurt financially by stagnant Local Government Aid (LGA) from the State of Minnesota.  Glenwood, like all cities in Greater Minnesota, receives state LGA each year. Lack of LGA increases… Read More

Stoneage Ramblings By John R. Stone Sometimes what you see is not what you think it is. I had a humorous reminder of that this past week. I had spent Saturday morning, Dec. 10, with some buckthorn brigade people cleaning up some buckthorn we had cut earlier. When we were done I went home, took a… Read More

Thank you to Cody Bosek for ‘caring for the youth of this community’ From Barb Kramber, Glenwood Thank you Cody Bosek for the letter-to-the-editor – 12/5/2022 – “Still believes tennis should be available for ‘our children’.” Thank you for the words, the time  and thought you put into the writing of this letter, for informing… Read More

The Salvation Army 2022 Campaign is ‘Love Beyond’ By Donna Ortendahl The Salvation Army Central Minnesota Field Representative With a recent resurgence of the pandemic, The Salvation Army is digging in for another challenging season of need. With many facing hardship, the need to serve those most vulnerable is great. Meeting these needs is made possible… Read More

View From The Cab By David Tollefson, Columnist Laura Cole is a staff writer for The Land Magazine. She writes in the Dec. 9 edition of the magazine, under the above title. It is a rather long column, but I will quote parts of it that I thought relevant to the upcoming holiday that we all love… Read More

Growing Green By Robin Trott, Extension Educator Do you have a gardening enthusiast on your holiday gift list?  There is still time to shop for that special gift for the garden! Many local businesses carry items that would appeal to your gardening friends and relatives, including hand tools, garden gadgets, houseplants, bird feeders, books and natural… Read More

The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist About a month ago I was invited to speak at the Ecumen Meadows. This is an assisted living facility located in Worthington. The topic was about public lands and the work that my local chapter of Pheasants Forever has been involved in to protect the local drinking water supply… Read More

View From a Prairie Home by Hege Hernfindahl, Columnist People sometimes ask me how I come up with topics to write about. I would say they just come, out of the blue sky. I thought that today I would write about advent, about the light that came into the world and overtook the darkness. But instead I… Read More