I have an uncle who spends a lot of his time tearing appliances apart and small engines, old motors, lawn and garden equipment and most everything else. He separates the steel from the aluminum, the …

Sometimes I just have to say yes. That’s what I did Thursday morning waiting to take photos of women dying Easter eggs at the Melrose American Legion.   Nancy Kemper made the cutest …

I thought spring was here, then winter came back and spring will show up again sometime soon — we hope.   When all the snow is finally gone, we will see golf carts out and about. I …

The March 23-26 snowstorm and snowfalls came in the final weeks of a very dry winter. Almost every snowstorm brings up stories about past storms. Research shows snow stories have usually left …

This is Easter weekend — a time for family gatherings, candy giveaways and spring celebrations, often with a large rabbit.   It is one of the biggest weekends of the year for …

In Division III, the mecca of college wrestling schools is in the upper Midwest region. Like how football is big in the south, say in Alabama or Georgia, and basketball is big in the east, like North …

Stories and reports of explosions, some of them dangerous, were not uncommon in the early 20th century. The use of dynamite in land clearing, increasing uses of steam power, the introduction of …

I sat on bleachers and a chair one recent Saturday, surrounded by family members, watching my great-niece, Skylar, play basketball at Holdingford Public Schools. I walked into gym No. 4 with …

There is, according to a storyteller from a few years ago, an image that small towns are the very image of capitalism at its best. Others hold them up as examples of how businesses and …

My older sister, Cindy, does day care. It’s not the type of day care where a person gets licensed and is regulated but, instead, the kind of day care that is more like babysitting for the …

“The power of prayer lives in your heart.”   I heard songwriter and singer Toby Keith say these words during one of the last interviews he did before passing away Feb. 5 at the …

Almost annually there are cries of needing to get youth involved in local functions. They come from school organizations, churches, community groups, etc. Involvement can be anything from having …