So what did you do this past weekend? And by this past weekend, I don’t mean the current one of Dec. 12-14, but rather the past weekend of Dec. 5-7. And you will also notice that I am including a weekend to mean Friday through Sunday. That is kind of how we look at weekends in the newspaper ...
This week’s column is about death and taxes, the two things that are inevitable. And it is also about that, no matter how bad things get, there is always a bright side to look at, a glimmer of hope as it were. And all of this column is due to input from our dedicated readers of the ...
I’m sure that if you live in Faribault County and own property here, you more than likely got your statement of proposed property taxes for next year. I know I did. Did yours go up a whopping 498 percent like mine did? Probably not. But more on that later. The key word to remember here is ...
If you watch the morning or evening TV news (and I often do) or read daily newspapers (which I also do), you probably have noticed that there is an awful lot of bad news out there. Gun violence, political unrest, plane crashes and hurricanes. The TV news people never seem to have a lack of ...
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Who is this “they,” you ask? Good question. Let’s ask Mr. Google. Mr. Google says it is most often attributed to advertising executive Fred R. Barnard, who first used it in 1921 and claimed it was a Chinese proverb to give it more ...
Veterans Day is coming up this week, on Tuesday, Nov. 11. We are doing some previewing of Veterans Day in this week’s issue of the Faribault County Register, with a couple of stories. For instance, there is a story about some of the Veterans Day events in Faribault County this week on ...
A friend of mine has a saying that is something like, “Everyone has some serious stuff going on in their life at sometime or other.” Only he didn’t say stuff. Right now it seems that I happen to know quite a few people who have some “serious stuff” going on in their lives. Mainly ...
I guess I have always had a thing for libraries. And, I suppose, that is because I have always loved to read. I remember reading all kinds of books as a child and young adult. My mother used to come in to my bedroom and demand I quit reading, put down the book, turn off the light and go to ...
It might actually be fall. Oh, I know, fall started back in September, sometime around Sept. 22. But, did it really? Now as we hit mid-October, and Halloween is fast approaching, it is finally starting to feel a little bit like fall. The leaves are turning, finally, and they are falling ...
So, this past week was National Newspaper Week, and it was also National Fire Prevention Week. In last week’s column I wrote a lot about Newspaper Week, but I sort of brushed over Fire Prevention Week. So this week, lets talk about fire week. It is a different kind of week, because it is ...