As the opening paragraph in a story on the front page of this week’s Faribault County Register states, if you have ever thought about running for a local public office, now is the time to “toss your hat in the ring.” The filing period for the local offices on city councils and school ...
Just in case you didn’t know, it is an election year this year. There is not going to be a vote for president this year, but there is going to be a primary election in August and a general election in November to vote for a whole lot of candidates for public office. And a few other things as ...
This week I am headed to Marshall, Minnesota, for some summer meetings of newspaper people. There will be several meetings. One will be a meeting of the nine people on the current board of directors of the Minnesota Newspaper Association as well as several staff members of the ...
Took a quick little trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee, over an extended weekend. We went there to visit my Tennessee Hunt cousins. My dad grew up in Chattanooga. And just to make the trip interesting, we didn’t fly, we drove. Don’t ask me why, it just seemed like the thing to do. I have a ...
I would imagine that back in the day, when my house was on the corner of Valucia and Douglas streets, there was probably a lot of traffic around it like there is now. Only back then there were probably a lot of horses, horse drawn wagons and horse and buggies going by. A lot of them ...
You could file this week’s column under the heading of “You know you live in a small town when...” I am having a retaining wall built around the south side of my yard. Now, that might go unnoticed in many places, but when you live on the corner of 10th and Main in Blue Earth, there is ...
Two weeks ago, on Monday, May 18, I was kidnapped. Luckily, I was able to return home safely and I am OK. Here is the story. My wife, Pam, and I were going to California with our daughter Katy and her husband Wade who live in Mankato. Our main reason for going there was for the graduation ...
I got to thinking, as I pondered what to write about for this week’s column, when was the last time I wrote about giving out Cheers and Jeers. It seems like it was a while ago. So I checked, and yes it was a while ago, in fact it was the first issue in March. So it is indeed high time for ...
We had a nice surprise last weekend, amidst all of the activities that were going on that we were involved in, like the Kiwanis First Bank Blue Earth program on Friday and the Wine Walk on Saturday. Our son Nate showed up for a quick visit and to wish his mother a happy Mother’s Day. Nate ...
In the last couple of weeks, I have received some nice compliments about the work we do here at the Faribault County Register. And some thank you’s for everything we do, and for having all the coverage we have, and for some particular stories that we have had in the newspaper. That is ...