By Tanya O’Connor Here’s a fun fact from Decorah Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jessica Rilling: This small northeast Iowa city boasts over 40 women-owned businesses in the downtown district alone. Rilling invites visitors to shop, save, sip and (hopefully) soak up a bit of spring sunshine at the 2022 Women’s Weekend Out (WWO) event scheduled for Friday, April 1 … [Read more...]
Letter to the editor – about connecting with others…
Letter about connecting with others... To the Editor, The suffering that’s happening in our world fills me with sadness. I believe one antidote is to feel connected to others. Connecting can be as simple as one driver waving to another as they pass. Or reaching out and telling someone how much they mean to you. Or the act of smiling at someone you may or may not like could … [Read more...]
Fillmore and Houston County Police Reports
Caledonia Police Department Chezni Nicole Carrion, 23, Caledonia, Minn.; 1/1/2022, Operate Unregistered Vehicle/Without Plates on Public Streets/Highways, Fine $100, Total Fees $175. 1/1/2022, Failure to Obtain New Driver’s License After Changing Name or Address, Fine $20. Cameron James Melde, 21, Caledonia, Minn.; 1/6/2022, Operate Any Vehicle Carelessly on Street or … [Read more...]
Minnesota weekly gas price update
March 21, 2022 - Average gasoline prices in Minnesota have fallen 4.5¢ per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.91/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 2,856 stations in Minnesota. Prices in Minnesota are 50.2¢ per gallon higher than a month ago and stand $1.15/g higher than a year ago. According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in Minnesota was priced at … [Read more...]
Ukrainian exchange student tells her story
By Phil Hebrink We have all been seeing the millions of people being forced to move from their homes in Ukraine. This is one of their stories. Anna Chop attended Kingsland High School in 2016-17. Age 16, she was an exchange student from Ukraine, with the FLEX program, meaning she earned a scholarship to come to the U.S. for a year of school. Her host family was John and … [Read more...]
Dinner honoring two Lanesboro elders
LANESBORO, MN, March 16, 2022 – The Lanesboro Area Chamber of Commerce and History Alive Lanesboro invite the public to a dinner on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, at Sons of Norway Lodge in Lanesboro to honor two local elders and those actors who told their stories in last fall’s History Alive Pop-Up Play. In the fall of 2021, History Alive Lanesboro presented a Pop-Up Play … [Read more...]
Government This Week
Monday, March 28 •Caledonia City Council, City Hall, 6 p.m. •Rushford City Council, City Hall, 6:30 p.m. •Chatfield City Council, City Hall, 7 p.m. Monday, April 4 •City of Houston Planning Commission/EDA, City Hall, 5:30 p.m. •Lanesboro City Council, City Hall, 6 p.m. •Preston City Council, City Hall, 6 p.m. •LeRoy City Council, Community Center, 6:30 p.m. *Schedule … [Read more...]
Pastor Devotions – Inch by inch, seed by seed
By Rev. Debra Jene Collum Chatfield United Methodist Do you ever sing words to a song and realize you are singing them “wrong”? Sometimes it is embarrassing, sometimes serendipitous. I learned that the song I sing to my seeds when I am planting a garden aren’t the words as written by David Mallett. However, in this case it is serendipitous because the way I sing this song … [Read more...]
Letter to the editor – about the link between gossip and bullying!…
Letter about the link between gossip and bullying!... To the Editor, It’s not what you see in small towns, or counties, it’s what you hear. Google search Gossip & Bullying and you will find articles like this: “Gossip: The Most Insidious Form of Bullying” - LinkedIn; A Form Of Bullying: Gossip, Inuendo, And Group Participants; My small business is being bullied by a … [Read more...]
Journal Writing Project Two years and counting
By Maddy Bergey Welp, it has officially been two years since the COVID-19 pandemic initially impacted our lives in this world. As a globe, we have endured two whole years of a deadly virus, which has claimed over five million lives and inevitably affected billions beyond those. From ever-changing mask mandates to newly emerging variants, these past two years have been denoted … [Read more...]