Well, alright. That is it, then. The race is on for the next 75 days or so. And there is going to be some big decisions to be made. You probably think I am referring to the fact that the Democratic National Convention is now over, and the race for the White House is on, and we are going to ...
During our 50-plus years of marriage, Pam and I have been blessed with some pretty nice neighbors. In Enderlin, North Dakota, it was Duane and Jill Dick, who taught us how to play pinochle. We reconnected with them a few years ago. In Waterville it was Dick and Deb Chambers, the couple who ...
1968 was a momentous year. Maybe you are old enough to remember it. If not, there is always Mr. Google to tell you all about it. It was the year I graduated from high school in Aurora, Colorado, in June. It was the year my family packed up and moved to Minnesota, also in June. It was the ...
Let’s start out this week’s column by clearing something up. There has been a bit of confusion about some of the operation here at the Faribault County Register. I am not, and never have been, the boss at the Register. Lori Nauman has been the publisher/general manager at the Register for ...
Every now and then I’ve written a column for the Register. In the past, it’s been a place to introduce a new employee or say goodbye to someone who was leaving. Well, this time I’m using the news space for my farewell. Yes, I’ve finally decided to retire. The time seems right for ...
While it was only a month ago that this column was full of Cheers and Jeers, there has been so much happening in the last four weeks or so, that there is a bunch more Cheering and Jeering that needs to be done. A big Cheer goes out to all the folks who help put on all of the town celebrations ...
There is something you need to know before continuing on with reading this week’s Editor’s Notebook. That something is that I am pretty well-known by my family and friends as always bumping into someone who I know or who knows me. Perhaps that is because I have lived in several ...
It is the middle of summer (how is that possible?) and it is time for my annual rant about something that is driving me crazy. Specifically, it is some of the crazy driving that is making me a little bit cranky. I know, you thought it was the mosquitoes that were driving me crazy. And that ...
This week this column is an unabashed plea for some assistance. Hopefully you read the front page story in last week’s Faribault County Register concerning the opening of a brand new museum in Blue Earth. It is called the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History, and as you read in ...
OK, I give up. I raise my right hand and swear I will never, ever, write about the weather in this column space again. It seems that there are some folks out there who are blaming me for causing some of the bad weather to turn even worse. If I write about snow, we get a blizzard, they ...