MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, MN, July 13, 2021 — While donors across the country have rolled up a sleeve to give this summer, the need for blood remains crucial for patients relying on lifesaving transfusions. The American Red Cross continues to experience a severe blood shortage and donors of all blood types – especially type O – are urged to make an appointment to give now. … [Read more...]
Picnic theater!
Enjoy a picnic in Sylvan Park and be entertained by “One Stage at a Time.” On July 31 at 6 p.m. and August 1 at 1 p.m., Lanesboro Community Theater will present three short one-act plays, interspersed with lively music, a reading about a man almost going over our own Lanesboro Dam, jokes, a sing-a-long, an appearance by Ole and Lars, a monologue about beer cans, and other … [Read more...]
MnDOT awards $75 million in Local Road Improvement Program grants Funding will improve or help build city, town and county roads statewide
ST. PAUL, MN – Seventy-five statewide road projects will benefit from $75 million in Local Road Improvement Program funding to help improve or build roads in Minnesota cities, towns and counties. The Minnesota Legislature appropriated an additional $110 million to specific projects, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation. The LRIP provides funding for … [Read more...]
Minnesota’s unemployment rate holds steady at 4% Jobs picture evolving; employment growth outpaces U.S. over the year
ST. PAUL – Minnesota’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained steady at 4.0% in June and the state’s labor force participation rate also remained level at 67.9%, according to numbers released today by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). Nationally, the unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percentage point in June to 5.9% with labor … [Read more...]
Softball at Whalan on 4th of July a tradition like no other
By Mike Buringha St. Charles, MN Where is Whalan, Minn., you might ask? If you travel south from Utica, and take a gravel road called Everyday Road you will run into a little village sporting a population of 63 people. Nestled into the bluff country between Peterson and Lanesboro, this little village offers the best pie money can buy, a bike trail and on the 4th of July, … [Read more...]
Blood drive in Harmony collects 47 units
The blood drive held in Harmony on July 6, 2021, succeeded in collecting 47 units of blood. There were 46 donors that presented, of which eight donated Power Reds (two units). Congratulations to these four donors who reached the following milestones: Marilyn Bratager – 3 gallons, Tom Burke - 1 gallon, Andrew Ollendieck - 8 gallons, Alvin Joe Schorr – 3 gallons The … [Read more...]
Pastor Devotion – Living into the unknown
The last year has been one of unknowns. A pandemic. An election. Constant changes in policies and procedures for churches, grocery stores, gyms, and schools. Just about everything has been unknown. There are many other unknowns for each of us in our lives – new or ending relationships, employment changes, graduating or starting school, moving to a new home or into a care … [Read more...]
Voter ID is voter suppression
Rushford, MN In recent years, the GOP has introduced, in many states, various Voter ID laws purporting that for an election to truly be fair and valid, we must have some sort of government provided identification to show our individual citizenship status. This push is designed to force citizens to jump through unnecessary hoops to prove their status all under the pretense … [Read more...]
Letter about “Only TRUTH should rule the day” and “Declining population?”…
To the Editor, Many thanks to Kathie Haynes for putting Stan Gudmundson’s outlandish rant in perspective. Facts have been endangered recently, but I think and hope that they will prevail. Re: declining population: It’s not a pretty sight to imagine wholesale death of those who get old. But nobody owes us 20 extra years past our “use by” date. I am 75, an age unheard of a … [Read more...]
Letter about brave voices…
To the Editor, I know of a young man who’s mother slapped him across the face and said “Don’t you ever say that again” when he told her what a priest had done to him. The priest that molested him wasn’t just a pervert but his real problem was that he was a tyrant. The young boy could have prevented dozens of other boys from getting abused by this man if he had stood on the … [Read more...]