Right now, rural America is facing a crisis of uncertainty. In Minnesota and across the country, farmers are having trouble making ends meet amid low commodity prices and increasing costs, and farm financial conditions are deteriorating. Farmer loan repayment rates continue to decline in Minnesota and across the Midwest, and small farm bankruptcies have reached a five-year high. Why? Our […]
Opinion
Enhance life at the local library
I’m an optimist. Seeing the bright side of life is fairly easy for me despite the normal ups and downs of life. That said, working at the library has only enhanced my ability to focus on the great things that come our way. For instance, Meinders Community Library was a recent recipient of 100 books for young readers. This generous […]
Days Gone By Week of Oct. 26, 2025
125 YEARS AGO Oct. 26,1900 About 8 o’clock last evening a fire got started in the restaurant back of Ed. Crook’s billiard hall and gained such rapid headway that an alarm was turned in. Before the engines reached the spot, however, the flames had been checked and they were sent back to the house unused. A portion of the wall […]
A fall treat
One of my favorite fall traditions is carving jack-o-lanterns and then baking the pumpkin seeds. I remember carving jack-o-lanterns when I was a kid and started carving them with my kids several years ago. At first, the kids would create a plan for the jack-o-lanterns and I would do the carving, so no one lost any fingers. Then we advanced […]
Days Gone By Week of October 19-25, 2025
125 YEARS AGO Oct. 19,1900 The Great Northern water tank went dry last night and a freight train was left stranded here on the main track directly in front of the depot. As a result passenger and freight trains were compelled to load and unload at the street crossing south of the station this morning while the freight engine ran […]
City street assessments not proper
TO THE EDITOR: The city council has scheduled a special hearing for Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, to take comments on the proposed street assessments for work completed in years 2023 and 2024. There is something you need to know about these assessments: The city is allowed to do assessments, but according to an information brief released by the Research Department […]
Routines
Routine is something that I didn’t put much thought into until I became a Mom. As we all know, most kids seem to thrive with routines and expectations. Routines in our house include bedtime routines, morning routines, Sunday church routines, etc. Some of the new routines in our house this fall have included middle school volleyball games right after school […]
Days Gone By Week of October 12, 2025
125 YEARS AGO Oct. 12,1900 Every store window up-town today contains a big white and blue bill announcing the Pipestone and Luverne High School football game to be played here on Saturday. The two games played here last year had the effect of stirring up a great interest among our people in football and if the weather is favorable there […]
Days Gone By Week of October 5, 2025
125 YEARS AGO Oct. 5,1900 The “Two Merry Tramps” Co., arrived this morning and at noon gave a highly creditable street parade, a feature of which was the trick bicycle riding exhibition of H. C. Lefever. The band discoursed some excellent music. The company will appear at the Ferris Grand tonight in one of the most amusing performances on the […]
“See You In September” or maybe November The Happenings come to the Showboat
By Tom Tourville I can remember when I was a kid and my local ballroom (Interlaken Ballroom-Fairmont, Minn.) was bringing in a new hot band. It was never a national name, but usually an “A” level group out of Minneapolis. You know, it was not that often that we got a true national headliner at our rural ballrooms. I’m thinking […]
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