Opinions
Even during a pandemic creative minds are at work to develop items for the 2020 Christmas tree. These are not your typical stars, wreaths or a partridge in a pear tree.
Nope. These are unique to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
This year’s Santa ornament is wearing a facemask. That’s right. Jolly Old...
In many ways COVID-19 has brought out some of the worst and best of humankind.
Yes, we’ve had riots in New York, Portland, Minneapolis, St. Louis and Seattle. The virus has also brought out the best.
Take for example, the 57-year-old farmer near Crosby, N.D. whose cardiac arrest prompted his...
We knew this day would come. Yesterday was the final page in the legacy of Jon Christiansen and staff as the County Market grocery store we know as Erdman’s closed at 6 p.m.
Erdman’s County Market had been an anchor in Kasson for 95 years. It was the go to place for some of the best meat products...
Who’s watching NFL games? Anyone?
With all of the political drama becoming a part of sports – National Football League bowing to advocates of kneeling for the national anthem, National Basketball Association knuckling under to the likes of Colin Kapaernick and LaBron James (whose net worth is...
B-r-r-r it’s getting cold out there!That was the sense of many as Dodge County temperatures slid into the 40s as most returned to work after the Labor Day weekend. Accompanied by light rain, the miserable index hit in the negative zone.
I picked up the September Successful Farming issue and on...
There are only 112 days remaining in 2020. Many can’t wait.
Pending something catastrophic or a dramatic resurgence of COVID-19, the New Year, 2021, will be a true time of celebration. Needless to say, 2020 has been a nightmarish year for most folks in Minnesota and Dodge County, specifically.
No...
Last Friday evening as most folks were heading home for the weekend and happened to pass Daniel’s Restaurant on South Mantorville Ave., they may have been surprised with the large number of cars that had jammed the parking lot at Daniel’s.
It was saying goodbye to the Daniels family, owners for 42...
Since COVID-19 interrupted life in Dodge County and surrounding areas of southeastern Minnesota, it’s been totally unusual.
First, businesses were closed, unless the State of Minnesota deemed them essential. Restaurants and bars were limited to carry out only, no inside service. No church services...
A melodrama played out last Tuesday afternoon at the Kasson-Manorville Minnesota Wifi Performing Arts Center. It was the conclusion a two-year drama that began in 2018 when a domestic dispute ended with a woman killing her husband.
It was not one of the one-act plays performed at the PAC. Unlike...
Squeezing all of the chores we’ve put off earlier in the summer ‘til now is becoming monumental undertaking. Staining the deck, replacing the weather stripping on the bottom of the garage door, replacing chipped strips on each side of the garage door, pruning the dead branches on a bush just...