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 ...
I am probably way overdue for my annual diatribe on driving and bad drivers. You know, the one where I write about people driving too fast, not stopping at stop signs, not slowing down at roundabouts and driving while looking at their phones, or otherwise distracted. You know, I generally ...
It has been quite a while since we last had some Cheers and Jeers in this column. Surprisingly, no one has mentioned that they missed seeing these lately, but no matter. Here is the latest bunch of Cheers and Jeers. I have to start off with a great big Cheer to the United South Central girls ...
You know, life here in southern Minnesota really is not so bad. In fact, it is pretty darn nice. Now, there may be more picturesque places, places with many more amenities, and some places maybe have better weather, but overall, life here is pretty darn good. You might wonder what got me ...
Dang it! I just totally missed out on a great idea for an April Fools Day story that I could have used for next year. That thought came to me while I was writing the story about the mammoth bones that is on the front page of this week’s Register. I mean just the fact that there were ...
Just in case you have not noticed, it has been a wee bit breezy lately. OK, before you start that letter to the editor, that first sentence was meant to be a bit of a joke. First off, I am fairly sure that if you live anywhere in Faribault County or anywhere in southern Minnesota for that ...
Well, he is back. I guess I really should not say he is back, because I suppose it could be a woman. At any rate, that wacko letter writer is back at it. You probably remember my column a while back that told about some letters going out to the editor of the Albert Lea newspaper and the ...