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 ...
I usually shy away from using this space to write about the weather, but dang, it has sure rained and stormed a lot in the past couple of months. In fact, as I write this Friday morning, it is once again thundering, lightening and raining hard. It is hard not to notice the weather if you live ...
It’s been a while since we sent out some of our Cheers and Jeers, so there are quite a few on the list. Some you probably can guess, but others maybe not so much. We better get right to it. First off, we give a round of Cheers to all of the spring sport athletes who did well and ...
As you no doubt surmised from the column on page 5 of last week’s Faribault County Register, our writer/reporter Fiona Green has decided to leave the Register and go back to work in the Fairmont School System. To say we will (and already are) going to miss her is an understatement. Fiona ...
Somebody once told me to “not sweat the small stuff.” I think they meant I should not worry about the little things in life, just worry about the big things. Or something like that. But lately I have been spending quite a lot of time worrying about some small things. Mosquitoes to be ...
Another thunderstorm is rumbling its way through the area as I write this column early Friday morning. It’s bringing some more rain to the area, not that we really need it right now. There was a doozy of a storm this past Tuesday afternoon. In fact, it went on a lot of the day. But in the ...
There is a song about the merry, merry month of May. As a matter of fact, if you ask Miss Siri or Mr. Google they will probably tell you that there are, indeed, several songs that mention that May is the merry month. I think it all goes back a long, long time to old England when Thomas Dekker ...