If you are a long-time reader of this column, then you probably know that I am not a native Minnesotan. Far from it, in fact. Yes, I was born and raised in San Diego, California. I add the state name, California, because there is a San Diego in other places, like San Diego, Texas. Even ...
I need to go mow my lawn. Even though I feel like I just did. I haven’t been able to get to it this week, and now it really needs it. Most summers I can get by with not even mowing it once a week. But this year, with rain seeming to come every three days, it can barely make it a week ...
Well, it is official. Summer is over. OK, maybe it is not really officially over. But here at the Register office, summer is over. For many folks summer is over the day after Labor Day. The day after the last day of the State Fair. But for those of us here at the Faribault County ...
It has been a bit of a roller coaster, weather-wise, here in Faribault County this summer. If you live here, you have probably noticed it. In fact, it has been a series of weather events all summer, not just here, but basically all across Minnesota, the Midwest and heck, actually all across ...
Well, another edition of the Faribault County Fair is now over and into the record books. I thought it was another good one. And I should know. The news staff here at the Register spends a whole lot of time at the fair, mainly taking photos. Lots and Lots of photos. Hundreds of photos. You ...
I have had a few shocks the last couple of years. Having a heart attack was one. Being named Blue Earth Community Service Award recipient in 2022 was another. And now, I had another one last Sunday. Let me tell you about it. We were camping all weekend at our campsite near Elysian, ...
The Giant Days Committee bills the event as the “Biggest and Best Party in Town,” and by golly, this year I think they were correct. I don’t know if you were around Blue Earth for any of the events, but if you were not, you were one of the few who didn’t make it to at least one thing ...
I have to admit it was a bit of a strange day. After all, it is not every day that someone comes into my office and says he is dying and asking if I would like to write a story about it. I also have to admit that I was intrigued. It was late May and my visitor was Eldon Steele. I had known ...
It was not the best of news to hear. One of the Blue Earth Lions Club members told me they had voted at their June meeting to dissolve, and that meeting was going to be their last one. As the story on the front page this week relates, the Blue Earth Lions Club has been around for 65 ...
It was around 1971 that I discovered small towns, after having been born and raised in suburbs of large cities. Since then we have lived in several small towns over the years and raised our family in small towns. In every small town where we lived I always made it a point to support the local ...