You have probably noticed a special feature in last week’s issue of the Faribault County Register and one in this issue of the Register. Both appeared on our page 3 and were titled America’s 250. It is a new series of stories about the history of these United States of America, and is ...
Can you stand another fish tale this week? It was on this past Thursday and I was busy putting this issue of the Register together, when my friend and fellow Kiwanian, John Huisman, called me. He was all excited. “Chuck, you gotta get out here, there is someone fishing in the pond, You ...
It was last year that I wrote in this space that I was tired of doing an April Fools Day story. In fact, I may have written the same thing the year before. So this year, I am reiterating that the long time tradition of having an April Fools Day fake story is done, its over, we are just not ...
In case you did not know it, I have a part-time job. I still am the managing editor at the Faribault County Register, but I also moonlight as the president of the board of directors of the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History. You might have already known that, given the amount of ...
I remember back 19 years ago, when I had just come to Blue Earth to be the new editor of the Faribault County Register. Then Blue Earth Area Schools superintendent Dale Brandsoy gave me a tour of the BEA Elementary and BEA Middle School. That tour offer came after I had mistakenly gone to ...
I have had sort of a love/hate relationship with the U.S. Mail and Postal System my entire half-century career in the weekly newspaper business. That is because one of the biggest things for a newspaper is to get the paper out into the people’s hands. My first day of a paid job at a ...
“So, where are you from?” I get asked that quite often. Sometimes I answer that it depends on what you mean by “from.” Do you mean where did I come from when I moved to Blue Earth? The answer is Tyler. If you mean, where was I born and grew up, the answer is San Diego, California. My ...
Well, we are getting pretty far into the year 2026, and we have yet to have a round of everyone’s favorite column, Cheers and Jeers, in 2026. Of course, the last one was in the Dec. 26, 2025 issue of the Register, so it has only been two months. But, as I looked back, there is a whole lot ...
You could file this week’s column under “You can learn something new every day. Even if you are on old guy.” I was visiting with a relatively new acquaintance the other day and she happened to mention that she needed to get her passport renewed, as it had expired. Oh, I asked, are you ...
How about that Super Bowl this year? Did you watch it? Were you shocked at the result? I know some Minnesota Vikings fans were wondering if Sam Darnold would fail to deliver in the big game. Others were wondering why the Vikings ever got rid of him. For me, I was just hoping that it would ...