Миннесота могла бы преподать остальному миру уроки вежливости.
Всего пару недель назад, после трагедии, разразившейся в этом штате, в редакционной статье этой газеты говорилось о важности снижения градусности политических дискуссий.

I hope everyone is enjoying the beginning of summer. I am excited to begin working with our school board, wonderful staff, and community as superintendent. It is an honor to have the opportunity to serve the Triton communities of Claremont, Dodge Center, and West Concord.

For the past several months, there has undoubtedly been a tense relationship between this newspaper and at least some parts of the Kasson-Mantorville School District.
A newspaper’s job is to hold the powerful accountable, which led us to pursue a series of stories that some didn’t like.
This newspaper has continued on covering the good, bad, and indifferent issues happening within the walls of the district.

The assassination of House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and the attack on Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, early Saturday morning took something we can never get back.
Both the heart-breaking loss and the nature of the crimes have changed Minnesota forever.
In the words of former State Rep. Pat Garofalo, Hortman’s long-time friend, “This is a loss of innocence for our state.”

In 1969, John Howell, a man from Greenwich Connecticut, bought my hometown paper, the Warwick Beacon, in Rhode Island.
To put it into context, my parents, who are both from Warwick, and have lived there their entire lives, were two years old.
For 55 years, Howell was publisher, owner, and editor of the Beacon, and other newspapers in the suburban part of Rhode Island.

Cows milking themselves?
That might be a little bit of a stretch, but not far off at the Balzer Dairy Farm east of Medford.