By Jason Sethre Publisher Fillmore County Journal jason@fillmorecountyjournal.com Since 2010, the Fillmore County Journal team has worked in collaboration with Brad Hoiness, the owner of Harmony Foods, Preston Foods, and Rushford Foods, and his team at the grocery stores, to publish a cookbook titled Tasty Temptations. All of the cookbooks we’ve published can be found … [Read more...]

By Jason Sethre Publisher Fillmore County Journal jason@fillmorecountyjournal.com November 8 is just around the corner.  Some of our readers may have already received a mail-in ballot.  Before you cast your votes, you may want to wait a few weeks to see what candidates have to say in writing in the Fillmore County Journal. This past week, letters were mailed to all … [Read more...]

By Jason Sethre Publisher Fillmore County Journal jason@fillmorecountyjournal.com Did you see the story reported in the August 16, 2022, issue of the Post-Bulletin about a 65-year-old woman and a 69-year-old man in Rochester, Minn., who wired more than $300,000 of their life savings in an online fraud case?  The police reported that the woman called a phone number that … [Read more...]

By Jason Sethre Publisher Fillmore County Journal jason@fillmorecountyjournal.com Over the past year, we decided we had finally arrived at a point in our lives when we could upgrade from our living room furniture to something we had always wanted. When our children were little, we stopped buying new anything (vehicles or furniture, in particular), because it was going … [Read more...]

Publisher Fillmore County Journal jason@fillmorecountyjournal.com Every once in a while, I hear someone around my age or older say, “I’m worried about these young people and their work ethic these days.” They are talking about the next generation of teenagers. The problem is that all of these “young people” seem to be lumped into the same category.  People think they … [Read more...]

By Jason Sethre Publisher Fillmore County Journal jason@fillmorecountyjournal.com Newspapers started it all with subscriptions. Readers have subscribed to newspapers for more than four centuries.  The first weekly newspapers were printed in Germany in 1609. In the early days of newspaper publishing, Europeans sought news about politics and war.  I guess some things … [Read more...]

By Jason Sethre Some of you may already be addicted to Wordle. The brainchild of Wordle, Josh Wardle, who sold his platform for $1 million to the New York Times, invented one of the biggest games of the year. And, the New York Times made a smart move with making this acquisition.  A May 4, 2022, Bloomberg article titled, “Wordle Brought ‘Tens of Millions’ of New Users to the … [Read more...]